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question, matt, you said you re very active on these congressional races, and some suggest that some of these primaries are putting out candidates that won t win in the general election. number one, what do you think about that and, number two, will you now jump more into this general election for the president and become more active for the presidency as well as some of these local races? most of the fights for who s going to be the republican candidate are over as of today. so we immediately shift all of our firepower, all of our focus on who is going to control the senate. my sense is that we re not going to have any of these misfires that we had in 2010 in states like delaware because the tea party got very active very early and got behind candidates with the skills and the talents and the principles that will get them elected in november. jenna: that s very interesting, matt. nice to have you with us, we appreciate it. look forward to checking in over the next couple weeks. ap
warrants. in the meantime, we re going to talk a little bit about the tea party. if the romney/ryan ticket wins in november, it ll put a tea party member just a heartbeat away from the oval office. we saw what happened in 2010. matt kibbe is the author of hostile take over, he s also the president and ceo of freedomworks. so, matt, you know paul ryan relatively well. you met about 20 years ago on capitol hill? yeah. we worked together as associates on the house budget committee when john kasich was first getting his start. jenna: you like him personally? yes. he s exactly what you see on the stage. he s easy going, he s thoughtful. he s a bit of a wonk, but he s passionate about these issues, and he s been willing to talk about things as a legislator that a lot of politicians haven t been willing to touch. and i think that s why tea partiers and activists, people that care about the size of government, are really attracted
people can understand. we all have to reduce the budget. we know the budget has to be reduced but sometimes you have to invest to get the economy going again, to create jobs so that the middle class has jobs. i think that is what president obama is fighting for and you can see that paul ryan has been pragmatic when he has to but is not preachchy what he had to vote. jon: matt, shows difficulty from jumping to a congressional race or a congressional district where you re trying to represent folks in a small geographic area and then apply the same principles to a nationwide race? yeah, jon. i don t look at it that way. the way i look at it paul ryan is a listener. he is an intellectual conservative who thinks we have to understand markets in order to pass legislation that can help markets. when it came to tarp and i think he listened to the economist and secretary of the treasury and as a leader he made a tough vote.
social policy. that s the new york times. now paul ryan, matt, has been known to compromise, to talk to folks across the aisle. he voted for the bank bailout, he s been in washington for a long time, so some could call him an insider being that he s been there for so long. so why does the tea party movement, again, identify with someone like paul ryan? well, we ve definitely had our differences, and certainly freedomworks fought with paul on a number of these votes that you ve already mentioned. but it s that principle, it s that willingness to actually tackle the elephant in the room which is $16 trillion in debt, an entitlement system that is not going to be there for our kids and grandkids, and a willingness to actually put a balanced budget on the table, something that harry reid and the democrats have failed to do. that s what attracts paul ryan and tea partiers, that s what connects us. jenna: sounds like you disagree but respect him, and that seems to be a takeaway we ve see