joining us now from washington, is the editor of the new republic franklin. hey. we ve been watching this tape of the incredible anim mittble bill clinton out there doing this thing. also joe biden out there, two very effective surrogates for team obama. we have heard precious little from paul ryan save an echo of the revenge line they are trotting out over the last 24 hours. do you think in the end, regardless of what happens tomorrow, paul ryan has been a good choice for mitt romney this campaign cycle? i agree with you. he s been strangely disappeared from the campaign trail. i think he s out there, drawing some sizable crowds but nothing like the way the mccain people trotted out even sarah palin at the end of the campaign in order to gin up enthusiasm. but i think there s a way in which had he may have on that slightly hurt mitt romney which is that you look at medicare as
and then had to walk it back. you know, as we ve been talking about for at least two years maybe the entire term about how his critics, his adversaries, his opponents have been trying to delegitimize him as a person, him as an american, and him as president of the united states. and they re clearly doing this as a way to gin up enthusiasm among the base. but when you re a day out from the election and you re still trying to gin up enthusiasm in your base to go out not to necessarily vote for your guy, but to vote against the guy you really, really hate. is that how you really want to win? and can i say? if we re talking about judeo-chjudeo judeo-christians. it was paul ryan s budget that went on catholic bishops. they said this a not a moral document because it backs on the poor and the works class. in one letter they said this was akin to ayn rand and not
discussed it a lot in this campaign cycle, do you think the fact that a lot of these states were sort of had their hand slapped, these republican held governor state houses in terms of putting in place laws that would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, do you think it s actually potentially at an adverse effect to say gin up enthusiasm in communities that maybe not maybe would not have been as enthusiastic about going to the polls, the fact that their right to vote might have been taken away is enough to get them out in force on tuesday and in the days prior? well, i think it s possible. i think that our supporters feel pretty passionately about their right to vote. you know, it s important for people to know for people who haven t yet voted, that their vote will be protected. they don t have anything to worry about. everything that we could possibly do in beating back those challenges, there was something like 30,000 3,000 challenges to election laws to make it hard
china a currency manipulator and that will allow me to apply tariffs where they steal property and jobs. now that comes under the jurisdiction of the tax committee because they re a sales tax paid by americans on chinese goods. alex, it s not every day that you hear a republican candidate for president saying on day one, i ve got a sales tax increase for you. yeah. it s not every day that you hear a republican candidate trying to gin up enthusiasm at a pivotal point in his campaign by channeling anger, economic frustration at china. this romney day one, lawrence, day one based on the ads is going to be the longest day in history. i m not quite sure it s the kind of day we measure on the current calendar. apparently he s going to do everything that day. he s going to balance the deficit, repeal obamacare with something else, we don t know what. he s going to deal with our relationship with china.
well, on day one, i ll label china a currency manipulator and that will allow me to apply tariffs where they steal property and jobs. no uh that comes under the jurisdiction of the tax committee because they re a sales tax paid by americans on chinese goods. a lex, it s not every day that you hear a republican candidate for president saying on day one, i ve got a sales tack increase for you. yeah. it s not every day that you hear a republican candidate trying to gin up enthusiasm at a pivotal point in his campaign by channelling anger, economic frustration at china. this romney day one, lawrence, day one based on the ads is going to be the longest day in history. i m not quite sure it s the kind of day we measure on the current calendar. apparently he s going to do everything that day. he s going to balance the deficit, repeal obamacare with