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Acknowledging the politics and the difficulties of this. i'm going to talk too chairman of the rnc in a minute about that and some other things. finally, one place where republicans are eager to on the ryan budget is in the home state of wisconsin where republicans hold a senate primary today. the guy who recruited ryan for congress, former congressman mark newman, he is batting former governor tommy thompson, father of welfare reform. businessman eric hovde and assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald on the ballot. newmanen has the support of most of the tea batter groups, including the conservative...

We better off today than we were three or four years ago? that's the first question. and that's the first box. the second box that you can only get to after the first one is did the republicans put an articulate, reasonable, intelligent alternative leaders on the ballot to lead this country? that is box that i personally perceive the convention really to hone in on, which is the mitt romney story, who is mitt romney? a good, decent man that built something from nothing, that gave away his father's inheritan inheritance, saved the olympics, good governor. that store very a story of success that...

Parties' bigger stars, chris christie, has been tapped to give the keynote address during the republican convention 13 days away. let's bring back our panel, jamal simmons, bob ehrlich, and shira. it's role of government, shrinking government making decisions about government, that's the party the republicans want to be in the 2012. >> also, it's taking a very serious tone. ryan's plan is very serious. mitt romney wants to show that he's very serious. chris christie, although he has a sense of humor, they don't want it to seem like it's gloom and doom. >> is the convention going to be more abo...

Medicare you can the cost of the program continues to rise but it's at a slower rate. but of course this is medicare, nuance always gets lost here, ask republicans when they were on the business end of this for mullen is '96. it is a fact both sides are counting on. the other piece of baggage, if you will that ryan does bring to the republican ticket is the burden of being a congressional republican, a group that's not very popular these days and if there was any doubt that the president was going to try to saddle romney with that brand, it's no accident that he addressed ryan this way over th...

Important to the american people. >> shaira, you cover the house and senate fronts. till us what is going on on the inoculation fronts? >> democrat were exside. republicans were paused when it was announced ryan was the pick. house republicans say they want this fight. they want to take this to the mat. i don't know if they are going to feel that way in a month. >> if we were debating about medicare, a long time since i have seen the romney campaign in paid messaging, welfare out today, a role of the government issue, they changed debate, we want to have a debate about the role of government, ...