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But the democrats thought that this was going to be their opportunity to continue with divide and conquer. they were going to use their mediscare tactics worked always at the national level. but what they didn t bargain for how skilled a tactician romney is, i mean ryan is. he has been fighting against mediscare in every single re-election campaign he has faced in congress. so he has been able to turn the argument around. he brought out his mom, betty. he has been able to show the obama campaign, obama is actually the one who attacked medicare. so we ve seen a real shift here. i think a momentum shift surely but a policy shift in that the republicans are now being aggressive. they re willing to talk about some really tough issues. jon: there was also that democratic super pac ad that zigged that mitt romney was responsible for the death of a woman from cancer. president obama was asked about it yesterday in his ....
Americans, if we end medicare as we know it, make it avoucher system somehow this is all going to lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody. both sides now are feverishly accusing the other of mediscare tactics. romney will take a few days off the public campaign trail for fundraising and finance meetings leaving ryan to quarry the message for the g.o.p. ticket. he will spend the next two days in ohio. bret? carl cameron traveling with governor romney. carl, thank you. new jersey governor, chris christie will give the keynote address at the republican convention in cam pa. that is two weeks from tonight. he says he will tell direct and hard truths about the trouble the country is in. two nights later, florida senator marco rubio will have the honor of introducing mitt romney to the republican convention. rubio was on romney s vis presidential short list. the man who got the nod talked with our own brit hume today. ....
It on? really great point, martha because there has always been kind of a tension in the republican party for the last 30 years or so between kemp vision which is grow your way out of these problems that we don t need to cut, cut, cut. and then, the kind of what reagannites call the root canal republicans. the ones who want to slice these programs. paul is a very inspired choice here because he brings together both of the wings. he has the kind of kemp growth vision, unless you get the economy moving you will never balance the budget but he also has sensible cuts to programs that need to be put on a leash in terms of the big entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid. he does it in a way that i think are acceptable to people. i heard you guys talking a couple minutes ago. there is no question the democrats will start running those ads, mediscare with granny going over the cliff. there is no question that is coming. martha: it already has. thank you very much, steve. always good ....
Getting america s fiscal house in order and serious about putting americans back to work. really the romney-ryan ticket is about big ideas in the future. paul ryan is really going to have to draw on his keen knowledge of complex fiscal matters to articulate them in cogent way. kirsten is right, the romney-ryan ticket can in the win the white house without florida and ohio. they will have to beat back the mediscare attacks. gregg: kirsten, ryan does have a very compelling personal history. he is a devoted deficit hawk. he is vigorous advocate for, free markets, smaller government. how might he do against joe biden in the one and only vice-presidential debate? i think he is a good, he is a clearly a person who is good at persuading i disagree he has a great history as a deficit hawk. he actually voted for every ....
Wisconsin and we will in a moment. but, first, some suggest the pick of paul as v.p. could hurt romney s chances in all important florida because of the high population of seniors and, of course, that method the democrats are trying to get out there that paul ryan s budget hurts seniors because of his medicare plans. sure. look. every pick for vice president has pluses and minuses. you know, mother teresa was not available for the position. so, if you are looking to minuses, you would probably look to a state like florida, which not surprisingly, has the largest percentage of seniors in the population of any state. 22% of the voters back in 2008 were seniors, age 65 and over. why would they be concerned? because undoubtedly democrats are going to focus their attacks on ryan with a mediscare attack. that is an attack on his budget plan concerning medicare. ....