white bread, double down on boredom and pick portman or pawlenty? is he going to reach over to the right and say damn, it i m going to pick a guy of conviction to my right, i m going to pick ryan, paul ryan? i don t know. i don t think anybody knows. i think the only three people who have a pretty good idea about this are bess meyers, who s doing the job, and governor romney and his wife, ann. i think those are the only three people i believe who really are in the inner circle in this decision. let s talk about this. first of all, if he had to pick somebody that had nothing to do with electability, just somebody to be really smart in the back room with him, sitting there when the tough decisions are made and he says what do you think and that really means something to him. which of these guys should he pick? just for sheer smarts. the smartest strategic thinker in republican elected office today is paul ryan. you look at what he has mastered in the budget. you look at whether you
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
senator reid has stated. democrats and the obama campaign are intent on making him pay the full cost of this secrecy. mitt romney s secret tax returns are the subject of a just-released television ad from president obama s re-election campaign. did romney pay 10% in taxes? 5%? zero? we don t know. but we do know that romney personally approved over $70 million of fictional losses in one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history. isn t it time to come clean? son of boss really has a nefarious ring to it. as for romney, he s still fighting his last battle. or more accurately, the battle he can never seem to definitively win, the battle for the hearts and minds of the right-wing commentariat who are convinced he doesn t truly love them and want to be with them. last night ann coulter demanded he fire andrea saul for touting massachusetts s health care law on fox news. andrea saul still has her job as far as we know. today republican commentators were still not over sa
that! chris: who do you see and when will they he announce it? i think he ll announce the pick after he gets back from this trip he s taking to london, israel and poland and probably announce it the week after he s back, so august 6th or 7th, i would say. you should be ready to come in early, to fox that morning. chris: okay. provide commentary. chris: and. i think he should pick someone young and exciting and forward looking and run a young, forward looking and exciting pain, and that would be paul ryan, marco rubio, chris christie, and i think he ll make a safer pick, maybe rob portman, from ohio or tim pawlenty. chris: the cheneys know something about vice presidential searches, who should he pick. based on the cheney record it will be bess meyers. chris: and, we should explain that anyway. thank you, panel, see you next weak. don t forget to check out panel plus where our group picks up
because the fire did not occur, investigators were able to comb through the place and last night we saw them bringing out potential evidence including a computer tower. police have said these attacks were planned for months. and, they will be scouring that computer for further confirmation. across this grieving community, memorials and vigils are now a daily occurrence. remembering the 12 dead, praying for the scores of wounded. president obama is visiting aurora, today, where he will meet with the victims families, to grieve and, perhaps, offer words of comfort to the nation. jon scott, reporting from aurora, colorado. jon, thanks for that. joining to discuss what happened in colorado and whether there is any better way to protect americans from a twisted mind. senator dianne feinstein, a long time advocate of stricter gun control. and, senator ron johnson, a strong supporter of gun rights. senators, welcome back to fox news sunday. thank you, chris. good morning, chr