kitchen sink after another at ryan and he is going to bring up the 47%, he will bring up the war on women, he will bring up bain capital. he ll throw all of this. the entire msnbc agenda. exactly. will be but part of the strategy there will be to pin ryan down on defense, and prevent him from talking about the things he knows best, which are medicare, taxes and financial stuff, the sort of things that romney opened up for him in that initial debate. romney unlocked paul ryan to a certain extent and now he can leverage him if ryan can get the space to talk about it in the debate. paul: mary. i think what you can expect from paul ryan, he will repeat over and over again, the 716 billion dollars in medicare cuts that obama is putting on people who are right now relying on medicare. and he will show, he will try to show that his plan will actually save medicare while obama will destroy it. i think that s his greatest
a question how the democrats and obama is going to respond. the ad they rolled out after the debate. i m barack obama and i approve this message. i m not in favor of a 5 trillion dollar tax cut. that s not my plan. the nan partisan tax policies concluded that mitt romney s tax plan would cost 4.8 billion dollars over ten years. why won t romney level with us about his tax plan which gives the wealthy huge new tax breakses according to experts he d have to raise taxes on the middle class or increase the deficit to pay for it. if we can t trust him here, how can we ever trust him here. kim, first of all, i should point out they re using the wall street journal s name in vein, we do not endorse we think that tax policy center study is completely bogus, but kim, this suggests to me that they are not changing strategy, they re doubling down on their strategy of going after mitt romney. yeah, if you thought it was ugly so far, just hold on.
and the problem the democrats have is that, what mitt romney really did in denver is he demolished to a certain extent their main campaign strategy. their goal was to go out there and present him in a negative light and spent enormous amount of money, saying this guy is an rapascious candidate and presenting barack obama as the alternative. he took a sledgehammer. they can t run on the economy, on the president s legislative record, people don t like it. now they re going to go straight after his character, suggest he has a credibility issue, call him a liar, say that he s a flip-flopper and that s where they ll go for the rest of the election. kim is touching on a really important point, which is fear is such a big part of the obama campaign. i mean, he is trying to gin up fear for people who, you know, you have 23 million people out of work and tell them, by the way, this guy is going to take away any chance for health
layout where what the president has been saying about him is not true. paul: let s show a clip of the president s frustration with some of mitt romney s answers. he says that he s going to close deductions and loopholes for his tax plan and that s how it s going to be paid for, but we don t know the details, he says that he s going to replace dodd frank, wall street reform, but we don t know exactly which ones. he won t tell us, he now says he s going to replace obamacare and assure the good things in it are going to be in there, and you don t have to worry. and at some point, i think, the american people have to ask themselves is the reason that governor romney is keeping all of these plans to replace secret because they re too good? is it because that somehow middle class families are going to benefit too much from them? jason, the president have a point? well, romney know have not
and exemptions, eliminate all of them or retain them and romney says i m going to drop rates and put all of those deductions and exemptions on the table for negotiation. any serious person in politics knows that s the starting point pour reworking the tax code. you don t have to get into the fine detail at this point. paul: kim, what do they have to do to maintain the momentum, the romney campaign. you see them doing this. now flooding the zone with a whole bunch of new ads going after the president both on things like the deficit, but talking more about mitt romney s own plans for reform and so they re trying to bulk up their presence out there in the the swing states and really grab this momentum and then they ve also of course, got to have a good rest of the remaining debates. no one should forget, john kerry had a good opening debate in 2004 and went on to lose the election and they re aware of that. and he s got to keep this image rolling with the public. paul: okay, much mo