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.
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
and so that s what he s going to do, paul ryan himself in kentucky this week and arguably, he s going to have a harder row to hoe here going into the first presidential debate and barack obama, everyone expected he would win and romney needs to put in a good performance and in fact did very well. the argument here is that paul ryan is so great and he will hold his own, but no one should underestimate joe biden. he s going to be okay out there. paul: this may be something of a trap for ryan because you know, the media expectation he s going to do so well and he s a numbers guy and knows his brief and so on, but widen is a real slasher and he s going to go after, i assume, mitt romney, hammer and tong. what does ryan have to do here in this debate? well, he s going to have to fight back, paul. there was once a debate called a kitchen debate. this is going to be the kitchen sink debate and joe biden is going to throw one
idea of obamacare and medicare and said for instance, that medicare works because the insurance companies have to make a profit on top of their administrative cost, medicare doesn t have to do that and it s lowered administrative costs and therefore a better deal. he said that romney s idea of premium support helping people buy insurance in the private marketplace, all economists agree the premium support will cause medicare to collapse. now that s an arguable point and i think that romney is going to engage him on those issues and try to continue to make the case for private sector health insurance. what i found interesting about this exchange is remember, obamacare was supposed to be romney s achilles heel throughout the primaries, his rivals said he wouldn t be able to challenge on that, and i think he proved a lot of people wrong. he pushed right through that and went on offense. and it s an example of his effort to reach across the aisle. bipartisanship, that s interesti
care? when romney comes in and looks like he s a reasonable guy, a competent fellow, he s not scary and talks about his medicare plan in reasonable terms. and that s what i mean. you blow up the fantasy, the caricature, rather, of how he s been portrayed and i think that helps. that s why the debate was so damaging for obama. are we going to see a movement in the poll, dan, as a result of the debate. i think we ll see some movement and romney will get a bump. whether he ll get one in ohio is a good question he s got to keep that momentum going. briefly, james. i think he ll get a bump, but i think the most important outcome for the debate for romney, is that he energized the party and they believe they can win again and i think that s an even more significant accomplishment in the short run than a bump in the polls. jason, thanks. one debate down and three more to go, believe it or not. the vice-presidential candidates get their turn next week in kentucky. can paul