definition. we ve been saying for some time that mitt romney s been trying to run this race with no substance. he s somebody who seemed to be completely hollowed out. we know he embraced some ideology through the primary. but he tried to say absolutely nothing. now he s selected a running mate whose values fly in the face of heartland values. he wants to gut education for young people. he wants to turn medicare and social security into a coupon program. he absolutely is not betting on the american worker at a time when we have a jobs bill that s been sitting in his congress for a better part of a year now. this doesn t concern me. you ll recall in 2008 john mccain selected a running mate to appeal to his base. we know how that turned out. i think mitt romney has found himself in a similar circumstance.
does that work as a bigger pitch to older voters in way that might be more successful in a typical democrat year? it does to some degree. republican the republicans are playing very careful politics with this. they are saying none of these cuts are going to affect you because this older generation in general and men in particular are one of their best constituencies. remember all the old new dealers, most of them have gone to their eternal reward. this particular cohert is a more conservative cohert than the one that came before. the republicans know they ve got to pitch to them. i do think that health care issues and medicare give him some potential and the ryan budget is a wide opening. women tend to be more for safety net than men. e.j.dionne, thank you for springing to my defense. my pleasure. any time. if mitt romney ever does say
does that work as a bigger pitch to older voters in a way that might be more successful in a typical democrat year? it does to some degree. but remember the republicans are playing very careful politics with this. they are saying, none of these cuts are going to affect you. because the older generation, in particular, are one of the best constituencies. remember all the old new dealers, most of them have gone to their eternal reward. this particular cohert is a more con serve tiff cohort of older voters than the one that came before. so the republicans know that they ve got to pitch to them, but i do think that health care issues and medicare give him some potential. and the ryan budget, i think, is a wide opening because women tend to be more for the safety net than men. e.j.dionne, msnbc contributor, thank you for springing to my defense.
afghanistan to tell you about. general john allen, the is now strongly condemning some photos that will be appearing in the los angeles times at 8:00 a.m. eastern time and those photos depict u.s. troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers in afghanistan. the incident which took place back in 2010 represents a serious error in judgment by several soldiers who acted out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with u.s. army values. nick, we haven t seen the photos yet. what exactly are they supposed to show us? apologizing for the contents of these pictures ahead of their publication by los angeles times expected later on today. they issued a statement in which they condemn the images which apparently show the bodies of dead afghan insurgents who died in suicide attacks. i mean apparently taken, according to issa a in 2010 but only now being leaked to the press. let me read to soyou some of th statement. the action of the photographs do not represent the policies and the
and i really think that put him ahead of the others because he knows to do that you really have to move the country forward, you have to get a consensus buy in and do it in the way people will accept. he believes in the reagan premise that you have to first win the argument and then win the vote and that s how you really tackle these really tough reforms. on that issue of medicare, of course your father initially called the paul ryan plan to privatize medicare to turn it into a voucher program instead of what we know as medicare today, he originally called it right-wing social engineering. he got a lot of conservative criticism having done that and changed his mind saying he support the ryan plan s that a liability for your father s campaign, for the gingrich campaign, moving forward in terms of talking to an electorate that is very worried that medicare is going to be on the chopping block for a republican party that wants to turn it into essentially a coupon program? well, as you