here s how you save your kids from a debt-laden future. here s how you save medicare. this is the kind of debate, the honest debate, that we need to have versus impugning people s motives. what did you learn from your run for the vice presidency and being mitt romney s running mate? what did you take away as a republican as you look to the future? it was a great experience. i feel that i benefited tremendously from that. my family got to see a lot of the country. we got to see countless people who just feel so passionate about their country. the other thing i learn was mitt romney would have been one heck of a great president. he is a very good man. the big regret i have is we didn t win the election and weren t able to put the reforms we think are right for the country in place. and now we re going to have to use this tool of divided government to try and make it work. what do you think the party should learn from the loss? obviously, we have to expand our appeal. we have to e
conclude that he s not looking to moderate. he s not looking to move to the middle. he is looking to go further to the left, and he wants to fight us every step of the way politically. and i don t think that s good for anybody in this country. it s reminiscent, isn t it, of a lot of republican leaders after his first inauguration getting together and trying to make him a one-term president? no. i see it as we have big problems we need to fix. we want to be a part of that solution. whether people like it or not or intend it or not, we more or less had the status quo election. we have a divided government. we have to make it work. when we see our country living far beyond its means, when we see our nation destroying our children s future by saddling them with a debt they can t handle, we have to do something about that. when we see families struggling in this economy, we have to do things to grow this economy. and the things that are coming out of washington right now don t do that.
when we see our country living far beyond its means, when we see our nation destroying our children s future by saddling them with a debt they can t handle, we have to do something about that. when we see families struggling in this economy, we have to do things to grow this economy. and the things that are coming out of washington right now don t do that. and that s why we re offering solutions. that s why we were showing with our budget here s how to grow the economy. here s how you save your kids from a debt-laden future. here s how you save medicare. this is the kind of debate, the honest debate, that we need to have versus impugning people s motives. what did you learn from your run for the vice presidency and being mitt romney s running mate? what did you take away as a republican as you look to the future? it was a great experience. i feel that i benefited tremendously from that. my family got to see a lot of the country. we got to see countless people who just feel so passi