with ryan in the first place. i get it. romney doesn t want to get dragged down by his political mate s push for getting rid of medicare. he acts like ryan has no hold on him, but it s not the way it works. romney has slowly gotten the word that the voter out there thought the two had things worked out, that romney and ryan were in this thing together. well, they re not. romney is dying. he can t stand being tied to ryan, and all that budget cutting baggage of his. for his part, ryan is feeling the taint of having a running mate who is unwilling to stand with him, unwilling to be his kind of politician. a conviction politician. so trouble in paradise. mitt s dying to be single again, so is ryan. we all know that politics makes strange bedfellows but the word is out this pair, romney and ryan, are sleeping in separate rooms. i m joined by msnbc political analyst howard fineman and joy ann reid, managing editor of thegrio.com. more polling data that shows mitt romney trailing. let s chec
romney versus ryan, the divorce. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start with mr. romney s divorce. why did he pick paul ryan for his running mate? certainly not for better or worse. mitt spends his days and nights acting as if he s out there all alone, that he never hooked up with ryan if the first place. i get it. romney doesn t want to get dragged down by his political mate s push for getting rid of medicare. he acts like ryan has no hold on him, but it s not the way it works. romney has slowly gotten the word that the voter out there thought the two had things worked out, that romney and ryan were in this thing together. well, they re not. romney is dying. he can t stand being tied to ryan, and all that budget cutting baggage of his. for his part, ryan is feeling the taint of having a running mate who is unwilling to stand with him, unwilling to be his kind of politician. a conviction politician. so trouble in paradise. mitt s dying t
ideological, but typical mitt romney who for a business guy doesn t always examine the details, i mean, i don t think they thought through the implications. i don t get i don t think they were going for the sizzle of the conservative without looking at the details. let me get into this for a minute here. this is the mitt romney we all have problems in our thinking, nobody is perfect obviously. i thit the problem is mitt romney is he wants all the advantages of a conviction politician. he wants to be seen as one, but he isn t one. he s a pragmatist. let s get a look. the sparkest bit of evidence paul ryan s position on medicare is poisoning the republican ticket came a week ago when paul ryan was booed at the aarp convention when he called for the repeal of obama care. let s watch this. the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal obama care because it represents the worst of both worlds. i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction, so let me get
i think the problem with mitt romney is he wants all the advantages of a conviction politician. he wants to be seen as one, but he isn t one. he s a pragmatist. let s get a look. the starkest bit of evidence paul ryan s position on medicare is poisoning the republican ticket came a week ago when paul ryan was booed at the aarp convention when he called for the repeal of obama care. let s watch this. the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal obama care because it represents the worst of both worlds. i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction, so let me get into it. it weakens medicare for today s seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation. well, not too popular there. now we ve got the poll that is put concrete numbers behind those boos. a new poll by the washington post and the kaiser family foundation shows that medicare trails only the economy as the top voting issue in the swing states of florida, ohio, and virginia. and among voters who say medicare is ex
that s ryan. nobody would ever call mitt romney a conviction politician, ever. they re not to be confused. anyway, thank you john nichols, and thank you, michael shere. when we return or when i return, let me finish with the democratic party s big opportunity to become a huge political party after that election, after this election. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.