campaigns are through a completely different order. you can get through a congressional campaign without paying a lot of attention. but when running for president or vice president, people pay an extraordinary amount of attention. almost every bipartisan group says not only do we have to cut spending, but increase revenue get a second job and spend less money. that s the hole we re in. and until both parties come together and say we ll jump off the cliff together, woe won t solve the problem. most american voters much more concerned about the deficit and their own checkbook than their national checkbook. this is just a failed a really crazy kind of strategy to take on. if this could happen. they don t matter, right? we can play this game with romney and ryan. who is the real guy ryan was for the stimulus when it was the bush stimulus. now against it. it doesn t matter. at the end of the campaign, if
conservatives pushed him to make the selection of paul rien. it is a risky selection. many of them believe it s a risky selection. he made this risky selection. precisely because conservatives didn t trust him to be conservative enough. be so now he s in this weird position. are you concerned, neera, this guy ryan believes in the person hood of cause, he believes can t have abortion of any circumstances because you have to believe in the personhood of some any unborn child to be after conception? this guy is radical belief. even for a pro-lifer. that s where he is. do you think that s not relevant to this presidential election, that that s where he stands? romney has him on the ticket now i think the fact that mitt romney mitt romney chose a vice presidential candidate who believes that even the case of rape and incest, a woman should not have access to abortion, you know, which i think is a relatively extreme position, far more extreme than even george
days i think he really has helped harden this view that he doesn t have that there s not a lot of conviction there. conservatives pushed him to make the selection of paul rien. it is a risky selection. many of them believe it s a risky selection. he made this risky selection. precisely because conservatives didn t trust him to be conservative enough. be so now he s in this weird position. are you concerned, neera, this guy ryan believes in the person hood of cause, he believes can t have abortion of any circumstances because you have to believe in the personhood of some any unborn child to be after conception? this guy is radical belief. even for a pro-lifer. that s where he is. do you think that s not relevant to this presidential election, that that s where he stands? romney has him on the ticket now i think the fact that mitt romney mitt romney chose a vice presidential candidate who believes that even the case of rape and incest, a woman should
this selection of paul ryan and it is a risky selection. many of them believe it is a risky selection. he made this risky selection. precisely because conservatives didn t trust him to be conservative enough. so now are you concerned, neera, this guy ryan believes in the person hood of cause, he believes can t have abortion of any circumstances because you have to believe in the personhood of some any unborn child to be after conception? this guy is radical belief. even for a pro-lifer. that s where he s. do you think that s not relevant to this presidential election, that that s where he stands? romney has him on the ticket now i think the fact that mitt romney mitt romney chose a vice presidential candidate who believes that even the case of rape and incest, a woman should not have access to abortion, you know, which i think is a relatively extreme position, far more extreme than even george bush s positions on abortion, is
what matters is that the views that todd akin has espoused and the legislation he s supported is in line with what the perspective vice presidential nominee paul ryan believes and supported. that s what turns this into a huge issue. because akin is the paul ryan of missouri. and this created a huge problem for the romney campaign yesterday and today, as they sought to sever todd akin from paul ryan and unite paul ryan with the somewhat different view that mitt romney now has. let me get back to cynthia on this, because this is exactly the way i read it when i heard this. this guy ryan, forget all the budget stuff, all the weeds