really lonely, is because they want to try to get, put this issue of the differences on medicare behind them. that says to me, i certainly don t compare ryan to sarah palin, but again, there s this it s not just a do no harm, you have to be able to move the ball down the field past the first 48, 78 hours and keep that momentum going. it feels like the other thing going here at the end of the news cycle, friday night, is the tax returns. so now we ve got ryan, right, showing up with two years of tax returns, paying at least a 15% rate. when you read ryan s tax returns, man, he s downright middle class compared to his running mate. so again you stay on the side the higher tax rate again than mitt romney and trying to justify it by saying, i think he was saying romney has already paid. he s paying taxes twice because he earned it as income and is doing it, but that s not true because of the carried interest loophole on the private equity stuff, most of romney s earnings
it s been above 8% for 42 months. when mitt romney is governor of massachusetts, unemployment went down. 23 million americans today are struggling to find work. nearly one in six americans are in poverty today. household income, family income has gone down by more than $4,000 over the past four years. when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, family income went up by $5,000 over his four years. remember president obama used to say, he s going to bring everybody together. there are not red states or blue states, just the united states of america. we ll set aside childish things. it s the most partisan atmosphere i have seen and this is the third president i have served with. when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, a republican in a democratic state with a democratic legislature consisting of 87% of the
obama team a weapon that they were already going to use but sharpened it for them, right? you just don t want to give that to your political opponent. here s a weapon and i m going to make it a more effective weapon for you. that s what he did. unless it s the briar patch. one possibility is, okay, they were already going to wrap paul ryan around him so they sharpened it by putting ryan next to him. or please saying, don t throw me in the briar patch when that s exactly where i want to be. i haven t figured out if the romneys actually wanted to show up here. tactically speaking, part of the conversation we had this week, not just democrats but republicans, was the lack of the preparedness of the romney campaign for the ryan budget and ryan medicare. we got lots of different answers. again, at the end of the week, we find out, guess what? instead of campaigning separately, they are coming back together next week. and one of the excuses they gave aside from romney s little isolated f
want to get wonky on you, but we have not run the number ossen that specific plan. the numbers balance the budget. i would put a contrast. so when ryan wasn t getting wonky on people with details and fuzzgy math, he was confusing his record with requested funds from the obama stimulus. when he did and then slamming the president for not saving an auto plant in his district. under that other guy, president george w. bush. oops. the week s highlight might have been mitt romney trying to use a white board to explain how his plan differs from obama care. he still neglected to write on the board that the ryan plan budget cuts the same 700-plus billion from medicare. cuts he proposes at the same time that he insists on cutting tax rates for americans who are the most wealthy. but then just this morning in his first ever weekly podcast, governor romney made clear he
mother is willing to go into the audience with him. we almost have to ask, whose momma isn t going to go? right. i see my son as more of a problem. they didn t like me but i think we have touched the underlying thing in florida. the battleground state, the ads are coming just in rapid fire down there right now, both the president and team romney now are competing at a pretty high level. so i m excited the fact that we are spending the time in florida. i m excited we are talking about that. and next week it will be social security. so just right now then the president is going to have won again because what we have done this week, and i m glad republicans are talking about it, but next week it will be social security and we won t be talking about what bill clinton talked about when he beat george bush, when was the economy is stupid. i think we are a little ways off from saying the paul ryan pick has done harm to romney s campaign. i think the jury is still out on that. i