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Paul ryan may be a good pick for mitt romney's base, but imagine the obama campaign ads about "ending medicare as we know it." the paul ryan pitfall is next. and it's not just the romney campaign giving president obama an assist on his policy record today. rush limbaugh says he's been in the trenches, lending a helping hand in the war on women. and after joining the fight against planned parenthood, there's a big change at the top of susan g. komen for the cure. [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® liquid ...

Unsustainable." so i guess you could add being sharply and publicly critical of romney care to the list of paul ryan's cons. joining me now, jonathan shake, and john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation" and associate editor of the capital times, who is an expert on wisconsin politics. gentleman, thank you for joining me. john, i want to go to you first. paul ryan is one of the most experience and also influential people in the republican caucus. he's definitely pulling the strings as far as the fiscal policy and strategy there. tell us a little bit about his governing philosophy....

Sw, so america's seniors and the middle class should take note of what that means for them. there's also the issue of romney care, which we now know that team romney has nothing but love for. >> you know, if people had been in massachusetts under governor romney health care plan, they would have had health care. >> paul ryan, on the other hand -- >> no, actually, i'm not a fan of the system, and i think that was part of it. i've got some rechlatives up the in massachusetts. my uncle is a cardiologist in boston, and i've talked to a lot of health care folks up there in boston, and what's happen...

My uncle is a cardiologist in boston, and i've talked to a lot of health care folks up there who what's happening is because costs are getting out of control, premiums are increasing in massachusetts, and now you have a bureaucracy that is having to put all these cost controls and now rationing on the system. this idea of having the government be the sole, you know, single regulator of health insurance, defining what kind of health insurance you can have, and then an individual mandate, it is a fatal conceit, and these kinds of systems as we're now seeing in massachusetts are unsustainable. >>...

President over welfare, except newt didn't really defend romney's attack on the president over everywhere. newt did, however, remember to say his favorite line. food stamp president. after that, from the department of insane conservative ideas, a family policy expert publicly suggests creating an organized system of kidnapping to remove children from their gay parents. and in the spotlight, if the obama campaign is already using the term "romney hood" now, imagine what they'll come up with if mitt romney picks paul ryan as his running mate. and breaking news tonight, susan g. komen for t...