successfully painted him as an uncaring, unthinking rich guy who manipulates the tax code, who has offshore wealth, who doesn t pay his fair share of taxes, who only understands wealthy people, who doesn t have your interests at heart. so if he doesn t have your interests at heart and doesn t understand your life, how could the plan that he put forward actually help you? now in state and places like ohio, both campaigns are doing focus groups of undecided white, blue collar voters. sort of middle class voters. that s who this is aimed at. the romney/ryan ticket will say we re going to allow you to stop paying for the welfare state and give you back more tax money. that s what their argument is going to be. but making that case convincingly will be difficult. especially when you have parents living off that system. anyway, paul ryan was met by a loud group of protesters today who joined his supporters at the same state fair event in iowa. they booed and yelled throughout his ten min
the fact the guy in second place is going to call the shots. okay. i get your point. and here s the point. we can talk about romney but we can t talk about his years at bain. we can talk ryan but not about his budget. whatever these guys have done before, we can t talk about. well, let s talk did we can talk about the fact obama did take $716 billion the same exact number, by the way, which ryan takes away in his budget. go ahead. but not in the romney budget. and if you want to debate a budget that s not going to be policy, that s up to you. okay, thank you. we have to go. but the public is going to debate a program that is being put up as the policy. you defended governor your fellow governor, governor romney tonight. you have not saved private ryan. thank you very much, john sununu, private ryan is trashed by you. he doesn t need saving. thank you, governor. great surrogate for one of the two guys on the ticket. not so much the other guy. up next, for the r
a voucher system, then somehow this is all going to lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody. i just like the way this guy does it. they all play politics. you re laughing. i m laughing. he s not going to let ryan be the outsider looking into washington saying what s wrong with it? he s going to put him right in bed with congress. he said congress five times there. this guy is one of that republican congress the public hates. the president now has a license to talk about paul ryan. ryan is in the news. we ll is if he can keep this up. as much as he can keep the focus off the economy and his economic record, talk about ryan and romney, washington to congress and republicans and congress, they are not popular for a variety of reasons and part of it is obstruction and part of it is their policies on things that are unpopular. the super pac the president put out a memo this afternoon saying part of our problem in convincing people of what the republicans in congress stand for is they
how is this ryan plan going to succeed in shifting all this fiscal policy towards tax breaks for the wealthy, away from the entitlement programs without hurting the people who benefit from the programs. steven? i don t agree with a single one of the characterizations of the plan you put up. let s talk about tax cut for the rich. as you know, chris, this is a 20% across the board reduction. so everybody gets a 20% cut in their taxes. that s romney. ryan is for dropping from 35% to 25%. i m talking about the romney/ryan. we re talking about ryan. that s what i wish you would take back your correction because i was talking about ryan. here s the point. paul wants to cut the tax rates for everybody by 10% for the rich. let s talk about medicare. you lost that fight so you have to change the subject. a radical social engineer
my guess is my guess is the reason president obama isn t making it here from council bluffs because he only knows left turns. well, there you have it, howard. let s talk in human terms, how is he handling his first couple of days out there as the new kid on the block? well, mark and i have both seen him in action. at least i ve seen him here. i haven t seen him in his district. he s a born pol. he s excellent at it. he s well liked. he s solid on his feet. he s good on the campaign trail. a scene like that in iowa doesn t help the democrats at all. people in iowa like their politics polite and don t like to see something like that. the democrats are going to have to at the grassroots be careful not to overplay their hand. if they re going to view the romney/ryan ticket as somehow extreme, they ve got to restrain themselves in their critique. i wonder if they were in charge of the people at the state fair. mark, were those people on duty