health care plan was something brought in from europe when in fact teddy roosevelt of the republican party was advocating national health a century ago and franklin roosevelt and harry truman. is it american to have people waiting in the emergency room? is that the american way to do health care? i think that s ridiculous the health care plan brought in from the heritage foundation and republican party is now being branded by the republican party as european. i think this is zen phobia, bad news and probably racial. we re going to watch it all very closely. okay. chris mathews, there live from the republican national convention in our prime time coverage and of course at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern time. thank you. ron paul says he turned down an offer to speak at the convention because he didn t want to have his speech approved by the romney camp. he was in florida last night criticizing everything from the war on drugs to american intervention in iraq and afghanistan. and in afghan
his own rally last night. believe me, because we will become the tent eventually. speaking of endorsements former republican governor charlie cryst gave his endorsement to obama. in a piece in the tampa bay times he writes an element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they ve proven incapable of governing for the people. look no more than the inclusion of the akin amendment in the republican party platform which bans abortion even for rape victims. read only one thing, my must read about the behind-the-scenes drama at the republican convention. who you won t see there. and why. it s up on our facebook page at facebook/jansingco. gh rg [ nn ]errequ [ nn ]errsfu owd gril