calling the gop plan radical. >> there's two politically appealing things about it. number one, a lot of older people vote not just in the general election and iowa and early republican states. the other thing is the ryan plan is not going to become law. the best republicans can hope for it's a talking point and piece of leverage, in all likelihood, if the current polls stand, this is going to be a negative for republicans at all levels in the 2012 election. a smart candidate, and gingrich is smart, thinks about the general election, if you're going to run in the general election, better off being against the ryan plan and barack obama than for it. >> republicans running for president have suddenly lost the courage they claimed to have last year. >> the fact of the matter is, when you drill down, those cuts ryan is talking about are so devastating to people, the regular people that ultimately, when they do start to drill down and hit the street, it's clearly going to be a loser.