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This thing, though, being an r.c., paul ryan, and an lds, is that still a question in the bible belt, in the deep south? a catholic and mormon on the ticket? not if barack obama s the alternative. it s easy. they d just go against obama? people say how is romney going to motivate the conservative movement? they re going to wake up every morning, remember who s president and be totally motivated. the desire amongst every conservative in this country to beat barack obama transcends any concern about mitt romney. what about picking someone good for my business? a christie. no, i m being selfish here. there s not a guy or woman in this business i talk to that doesn t wish like hell he d or like heaven he would pick christie because he s so quotable. he s so big. not just physically. he s just so big a personality. he would really shake this election up. as a guy who always had a weight problem i ve always hoped christie could become a national figure so i could stand in his sha ....
Let me finish tonight with this. i don t know anybody who s impressed with this campaign so far, and i m talking about both candidates. romney seems like a guy trying desperately not to make another mistake, hoping the economic numbers will win it for him. if they get just a little bit worse and he can avoid blowing it. after all these years of running for just a few months more. now, can you think of anything less inspiring than that? a guy just trying not to crash, hoping that the economy will do it for him. obama, to be fair, hasn t been all that inspiring either. i know times are tough and he can t just play defense, and i know that means hitting his rival in the shins. but like you i remember that wonderful poster from 2008 with that picture of him looking upward and that single word, hope. hope is what this campaign has lacked. romney is basically calling a return to normalcy, all this restore our future stuff, that s what his party promised back in the early 1920s before givin ....
Does romney want that kind of campaign? i think he does. a very clear campaign? a very clear campaign. i think he s going to have to carve a very clear contrast between the president s record, what the president s said and what the president s done. you get that with a portman. you get it with a ryan. i just think all this chatter on the right that we need paul ryan is let s forget ideology for a second. the knock on portman, i don t know the guy, he doesn t come on this program, but i know pawlenty. he seems like a regular guy, a nice guy. but portman everybody says is boring. romney s not exciting. is there a danger in two white bread, excuse the expression, candidates who are just like you re not going to kid yourself to sit next to them on an airplane. portman brings a lot if he romney wants a governing pick. there s a lot from the palin example four years ago. there s a middle ground here between palin and portman. give me a break. i ll say this about portman. i ....
Decision-making power of the presidency? so what does he want? someone to help win the election, obviously. someone to get him a state he s unlikely to get otherwise. that he d pick portman perhaps of ohio or rubio of florida. they ll get him a state each. someone to complement his personality. that s to use that term loosely. someone to offset his rich guy stiffness and remoteness. then he d pick a regular middle-class guy like, say, tim pawlenty of minnesota. how about someone to show ideological conviction, the kind people don t really associate with romney himself? then paul romney would make the case. i ve got an idea. how about he makes a running mate decision that shows whoa, mitt romney, really is, someone who really has the right stuff to be president? now, that would show character, judgment, true patriotism, all important to any president no matter what his philosophy. so let s see where he s heading. joining me right nows a guy who really knows, former speaker of the house ....
To [ bleep ]. this is a holy site for the polish people. show some respect. that s the line of the year. kiss my. this is a holy site. gorka was given time off. that might be a low key way to ease him out, but he s back. and now campaign press secretary andrea saul, she set off a near revolt on the right when she the other day defended romney against an ad that insinuates he killed a woman by playing up his role in massachusetts health care reform. to that point, you know, if people had been in massachusetts under governor romney s health care plan, they would have had health care. there are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in president obama s economy. so what does a person have to do to get fired by mitt romney in real life when it comes to politics? ron reagan is an author and msnbc political analyst. and erin mcpike is covering the campaign for real clear politics. i want to start with erin. we were talking beforehand. you know all these peop ....