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And those same cuts are in the paul ryan budget because they're built into the baseline. now, already we've gone two degrees into wonkville and that's not a comfortable place for romney or ryan. it happens to be essentially true and worth pointing out when this debate goes forward. the central difference on medicare is not whether or not you reduce the rate of growth. both seek to do that. it's methodology, providers or do you put the power in the hands of medicare recipients who would no longer simply go to a doctor and have the government reimburse their physician but they would have money i...

Close look at that, because he's running for president of the united states and when you're running for president of the united states, the precedent in modern times is that multiple years of tax returns are released by a candidate for president. now, they have made it clear that the reason they're not releasing them is that they don't want us to get a close look at it because they don't want to potentially be subject to criticism. i mean, that's something that the campaign said over the last few days. well, you know what, you don't get to make -- i guess you get to make that decision, but if ...

Thought i did. you pick paul ryan because you are going to run as a campaign that is sort of willing to make the tough choices on medicare, willing to cut medicare. i really don't understand the paul ryan pick in the new context of the romney campaign in which you're the campaign that doesn't want to cut medicare, that you would never cut medicare, because ryan's budgets have been pretty -- have had really significant medicare cuts. much, much larger, particularly in the initial ryan budget, the one from 2012 that was released in 2011. so in that budget, it would have eliminated traditional me...

Two parties. all of the violence, the rage, the storming the barricades. the standing outside people's homes, that all comes from the left. i do not know the details of their medicare plans. i know the basics. the most important basic is the ryan-romney plan does not touch social security for anyone 55 years old or younger. meanwhile the media keeps saying, well, the ryan pick is going to hurt romney in states with old people. unless age 54 is old, and i think -- i think you are probably right that 54 -- 54 and younger, 45-year-olds for whom there will be no medicare under the current course, ...

Up romney. they have no problem in the way for a while republicans had no problem talking up sarah palin over john mccain. they raised $7 million in a few days from that pick and there was a period of time when she was an incredibly popular figure. they think they have the same thing with ryan. >> david, how would you characterize the choice of ryan compared to previous choices at this point in their respective campaigns? would you say this is similar to sarah palin? would you say they're looking for -- using this word frequently in the last two days -- a game change and therefore, perhaps, th...