focusing on parsing that is necessarily what voters are going to be concerned about. i think the bigger issue for me in that moment was governor romney s failure to take something that pretty much 100,000 conservative pundits and activists and politicians could have taken the moment to make a macro point about the way the administration has handled what happened in benghazi to speak to larger themes about the president s leadership they want to project to voters and governor romney almost failed on that. you won t find many republicans tell you anything other than governor romney failed on that answer. now, both to both chris and mark, we look at where they are today. and clearly ohio and virginia, those are the important state right now. mark, first to you, the battleground as you now see it post-debate, shaping up in this next three weeks? it s great fun to play with the map and pretend we live in a country with 50 states but, in
essentialously a safety net for those who have retired and otherwise would face terrible. you re arguing a macro point. there is nothing in theory wrong with that at all. we re not talking in theory. we are talk about a specific program called social security. it s a good program. whose basis is built on fluff. be honest about it. it s not built on fluff. it has been financially stable since fdr and it is even by rick perry. no! just a moment. by rick perry s estimate if you go 30 years from now, it s still going to be in a position especially as we pull money away from the trust fund. ponzi scheme would work if it were mandtory. the reason that ponzi, charles ponzi ended up in jail is it s not mandatory. you can be a ponzi scheme but because it s, everybody has to actually pay into it, it can work. ultimately, it s the demographics are out of whack as they are now it will fail
having the social compact that essentialously a safety net for those who have retired and otherwise would face terrible. you re arguing a macro point. there is nothing in theory wrong with that at all. we re not talking in theory. we are talk about a specific program called social security. it s a good program. whose basis is built on fluff. be honest about it. it s not built on fluff. it has been financially stable since fdr and it is even by rick perry. no! just a moment. by rick perry s estimate if you go 30 years from now, it s still going to be in a position especially as we pull money away from the trust fund. ponzi scheme would work if it were mandtory. the reason that ponzi, charles ponzi ended up in jail is it s not mandatory. you can be a ponzi scheme but because it s, everybody has to actually pay into it, it can work. ultimately, it s the demographics are out of whack as they are now it will fail