president, i think there ll be some more buffers and layers between mitt romney and sheldon adelson, so i m not too worried about that. jonathan capehart, you officially coined my favorite phrase of the evening, a rafal rafalca-like dodge. i hope to hear that many times, and i think i will, in the course of this election season. ana marie cox and jonathan capehart, thank you both for joining me. thanks. coming up, what the shooting in a wisconsin sikh temple really says about the country and what we should be hearing about it from our leaders. plus, mitt romney s gross manipulation of the facts, episode 1 million. this time it s about president obama and his record with veterans. we will tell you what the president is actually doing when it comes to those who serve in the military. that s next. born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do. because it matters. at hp we don t just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people w
for president was pushing a plan that, you know, a nonbiased source has said would essentially give an $87,000, you know, tax break for the wealthiest millionaires and would increase the taxes, up to about $2,000, people, you know, making under that. so, you know, he called it romney hood or robin hood in reverse, but that s really part of what we should be talking about. is what mitt romney s ideas and policies would do to this country. how long is it before we see the obama campaign graphic with mitt romney s fifth house in sherwood forest? i don t know. john ralston and karen finney, thank you both. thanks, alex. coming up, the next big chance for team romney to change the subject from romney s tax returns will be his announcement of a running mate. and romney has invited some of the top contenders to ride along on his four-state bus tour, but they won t have much time to talk, because the candidate won t actually be taking the bus. that s next. and the conservate lament o
romney is going from florida to ohio? if you were actually doing this logically, you might want to start in ohio. what do you think about the speculation that it all ends with fireworks and a rob portman announcement? i think maybe and maybe not. i think they are interested in keeping as much speculation going as possible. and they know that doing the bus tour this way does that. the thing that is very important to remember about the romney campaign right now is they are losing a series of news cycles, one after the other after the other. and dan balz had a very sobering piece in the washington post yesterday about how mitt romney has not been ahead in many of these swing state polls, most of them, obama has maintained a slight lead. so i think they are doing anything they can to try to win as many headlines as they can. they need to switch the narrative. they know the vp pick is their best chance for doing that. so i think this is all about just sort of fulminating interest than a
cetera. they re doing that and then they have the gall, the romney campaign has the gall to say, look, president obama is trying to suppress military votes. he s doing nothing but trying to get everyone to vote, including the 913,000 veterans in ohio. the other thing that john sosa points out is that the law in ohio only covers those actively serving in the military, which means the law would restrict voting for 900,000 veterans. the irony there is so thick, you could probably slice it. you re talking about national reserve members and veterans. i mean, it s really remarkable that mitt romney is trying to suppress over 900,000 veterans votes in ohio. here in pennsylvania, alex, by the way, if you re a veteran from the iraq or afghanistan war, you come back and get a government-issued identification card from the v.a., that is not
example, i think picking someone like a paul ryan would send a very powerful message that this administration is serious about tackling medicare reform, entitlement reform, shrinking the size of government, and doing so in a courageous way. it s like everyone on the short list is pointing to someone else who may or may not be on the short list. but maggie, if he does end up going with someone who is, let s say, not as much firework and glass as a chris christie or a bobby jindal or a paul ryan, what does that do for conservatives? do they then express their disappointment? there is already so much disappointment around mitt romney. i don t know. you ve got to wonder, when an announcement gets made, everything changes, right? so they want, they want, they want. there s going to have to be a rallying effect. so we ll see. the interesting thing here is, every time we think something s going to happen, and i m with maggie, and reporting wise, it s pawlenty, portman, these are the names