attorney general and romney care is obama care is pat tender after. rick santorum made that point that newt is going to just as well going forward, how is romney going to debate the president on anything other than i want to repeal obama care? how does he get to the fact in massachusetts, you have this higher insurance rates than ever on people after six years of the plan there the fact you have a shortage of doctors and have to wait 48 dies get to see a primary care physician and so on down the road? i think this is going to be a very interesting going forward campaign. i don t think newt s past is going to be the issue. i think it is going to be the question of who is best going to be able to defeat obama in the fall and who is the most conservative, who is the reagan republican, the best economic plan, which the wall street journal says newt, 15 rates and supply side economics to get the country moving again that is what it will be b. congressman, one quick point about this di
were able to settle their fish. i think part of it was that they basically improved their political situation in every state they fought in. look at the states where they had their real battle royale, north carolina, indiana, hillary clinton won about half of them. she won certainly all the big states except for illinois, yet in every case where she won, she didn t mess it up for obama. it is so interesting, this is worth studying in the annals of politics, how they both ran against each other on issues. let s remember the issues, the war in iraq, barack obama, as a state senator, opposed the war. senator clinton had voted for it with some caveats but had voted to authorize it and never really come back on that. so, that was a good issue to fight barks good democratic issue, where the president ended up being with most people in the party. then fight for things, as tim russert brought up, fighters of the new york process of spitzer s process of giving away driver s licenses to people t
he was asked a hypothetical question. you know as a reporter you shouldn t answer a hypothetical because it is, well, hypothetical. the were he addresses this is a big issue, along with social security, which he also talks about moving forward and making real changes on, he understands that these are really tough issues and you have to have a national conversation with the country about how is the best way to do it? how do you make changes, but to your point, hurt people that are using it today? that is a very complicated process, not something you want to rush out and do overnight, something you want to do in such a way, the congressmen and senators go home, they have people that come to their town hall meetings and talk about what the president wants to get done what ronald reagan didn t what dad did, we did welfare reform and eventually, president obama, after getting the third time, finally signed it into law. jackie, ed schultz. your father has undoubtedly spent a lot of time in
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