ouch. ouch. would needs the left? the risk is for romney in highlighting gingrich s opposition to the paul ryan plan, it could hurt romney if he gets the nomination in e general because a lot of the independents probably don t like paul ryan s plan when it comes to medicare. and there is an evangelical committee calling gingrich the kim kardashian of the g.o.p. and the walking definition of untrustworthy. clayton: and frank frank lundz said the negative ads could come back to hurt romney but they always seem to work. dave: if you have something that sticks but people do not want to see it turn negative but
will, and heaven knows i cannot write a script for all the people that support me and i expect we will have differences and we can discuss those, as well. but there is quite a bit of criticism from the romney camp on friday, releasing a series of criticism cruzing one from a representative from new york saying gingrich has had visions of grandiose and from senator burr saying he has the attention span of a one-year-old, and, then, this advertisement that was rolled out. take a look. he dismissed the medicare reform plan put forward by congressman ryan and called it radical, as harsh a citizen you could level at a fellow republican. a character problem. he does not have the discipline you want. he is out, basically, he is out in the left wing of the republican party.
chief political correspondent, candy crowley. good morning, candy. there s another big debate tomorrow night. this won t be like the others. no herman cain this time and newt gingrich is the guy to beat. well, yes. there is actually a lot at play in this debate which probably will make it the most high decibel debate that we ve seen. number one, the calendar s kind of closing in on him. those caucuses are less than a month away. number two, the conventional political wisdom always has been there are three tickets out of iowa. three people survive. not only do you have mitt romney who needs to go after newt gingrich and start to drive down some of those poll numbers, you have everybody else on that stage that wants a ticket out of iowa so they go after newt gingrich as well and probably a little bit of romney. so you have the makings of both the calendar and the politics of it at this point. this sort of promises to be a lively affair. of course it will. we re talking no
rethinking retirement? guest: no, i will have had 24 great years when i step out in the going of 2013 and it is time to move on to something else. i ve been very fortunate and privileged to do what i have done and in the year and a half i have left i want do do everything i can to get our country back on the road to a balanced budget amendment and i am working with conservative republican senator coburn, friend from oklahoma, put forward a medicare reform plan that will save $600 billion over the next decade. if we don t do something like that can is tough medicine but we have to take tough medicine not only to save medicare but to stop the drain that medicare now represents. neil: in a continued roll, maybe as a u.s. senator? guest: nice try. in the beginning i never thought the beginning of the draft movement would come from neil
[inaudible] we re going to sink in paralysis. that s what s going to happen. you know the math. bill: explain the point you were making there. it s a point i make publicly. we re leading. we know the math. he knows the math. medicare is going bankrupt. we ve got to do something to save it. we re leading, an by putting a plan on the table, and yes, we know the other side wants to use mediscare tactics, if that succeeds, medicare itself goes bankrupt, then we have a debt crisis. we re trying to fix this problem, be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. the other thing is the medicare reform plan, it s exactly what president clinton s commission to save medicare recommended we should do in the late 90s. bill: paul ryan, thank you for your time. thank you bill. bill: we ll see what comes out of the white house today, republican from wisconsin on the hill. thanks. heather: before you take that jet to the beach this