democrats have so far been keeping their powder dry on this very, very potent issue. on the republicans wanting to privatize social security. not just privatizing medicare, and thereby getting rid of it, which has been an issue in this campaign, but privatizing social security and thereby getting rid of it. before last night, that was paul ryan's record and it was george w. bush's record. but nobody knew if romney and ryan were going to try to drag that old disastrous idea over the threshold of the white house with them. now we know they are dragging it with them. which is amazing. when i said there were two points from last night, and one last thing i think needs to be mentioned that i think changed the race last night. and it's the war. before the debate started, there was a really weird moment. this was yesterday, but before the debate. it was on fox news. it's a weird moment when george w. bush's iraq war spokesman, paul ryan's senior staffer on this campaign, he went on fox news yesterday afternoon to try to explain what the republican