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And ayn rand really is on another ideological planet from most americans. these are arguments that go all the way back to the 1930s, and for a long time after dwight eisenhower, the republicans made their peace with social security and said americans are for this, they like this, we're not going to touch it. and suddenly, you've got ryan back there saying what he really believes, which is that the core fdr social insurance programs are really just a kind of socialism. i think he's being quite honest there. i just don't think that's where most americans are. i think, if we look back at this per...

Past few weeks. it's been an absolute gaffe machine. but, no, they are not happy. and one of the reasons they are not happy is because the mistakes of the past two weeks have drawn fire not just from democrats, but from republicans as well. leading republicans have been out there drubbing the romney campaign for, first, the terrible misfire on libya when romney got out there and said something that was clearly wrong, acttacking obama when a consulate had been attacked and americans, including an ambassador, dead. republicans, leading republicans jumped all over him for that. that followed with...

♪ [ female announcer ] and try aleve for relief from tough headaches. welcome back. so why did governor romney pick today to release one year of his tax returns? we don't know, but it may have had to do with the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week he's had since the secret tape revealed him calling 47% of americans victims and free loaders. and this tape has handed the obama campaign the political equivalent of a sledge hammer.

If you're going to vote, we'll need some photo i.d. >> but i've lived here all my life. >> stopping all americans from voting is for the protection of all americans. >> but i'm a 40-year-old white guy who didn't go to college and gets all his news from monitors at gas stations. >> in you go. >> voter i.d. is such a problem now, even the simpsons are making fun of it. this republican effort to suppress the vote is no laughing matter. just this week, we heard the sponsor of pennsylvania's voter i.d. law say this. >> as mitt romney said, what, we have 47% of the people that are living off the pub...

Released his returns here. he paid a little more than 13%, 14%, then what's the harm in releasing them? i can't figure out from a campaign point of view why they don't just release them and bury this issue once and for all. sometime during this campaign, they've got to be able to focus the nation's attention on the economy, none of this other distraction. why don't they do that? does anybody -- krystal, do you have a thought? >> krystal, is this going anywhere? i mean, you're talking about he knew he was going to run for president. a lot of americans, me included, did it at the last minute. bu...