contemplate cutting medicare by the same amount? my medicare blan is similar to his plan for medicare. how much? the i the i joined the romney ticket. how many years to result in a balanced budget? uhh, well, i don t know exactly. are you running on his budget or your budget? soo. my budget, of course. i m the one running for president. did you roll the dice a little bit with paul ryan? joining me now, krystal ball and howard fineman. howard, we need your memory here. i cannot think of a first week of a have thetial part of the ticket rollout where the talk has been how much damage might
said boy, we went really far in this libertarian thing and we need to reassess. so let s go to someone reasonable next time like richard nixon. richard nixon as we all know created the environmental protection agency and does look like a liberal guy for where the party went later. i do think he was less of the angry libertarian. ryan is an extreme right winger. he can bring down senate and house candidates with them. if they get some form of what have they think is a wipeout because of the ryan effect, doesn t that wake them up in any way towards being more reasonable? yeah. look, there s 435 house races. tlp aren t enough white boards in the country to explain the romney ryan or ryan romney plan.
are you criticizing the obama medicare cuts if you have the cuts in your plan? and he uses the word you must not use, which everybody on the budget committee understand andest mo people in congress understand, baseline. baseline. howard is laughing about it now. you ve got to find an merge language way of answering this question, not the congressional language way. that s exactly right. that s the thing that s so shocking about this roout, how fundamentally unprepared they were about the obvious questions. i mean, like howard said, obviously if you pick paul ryan, medicare is going to be the central question.
the romney ticket. how many years to result in a balanced budget? uhh, well, i don t know exactly. are you running on his budget or your budget? soo. my budget, of course. i m the one running for president. did you roll the dice a little bit with paul ryan? joining me now, krystal ball and howard fineman. howard, we need your memory here. i cannot think of a first week of a have thetial part of the ticket rollout where the talk has been how much damage might this candidate do, not just to the pottial ticket but also house seats and senate seats. ticket rollout where the talk has been how much damage might this candidate do, not just to the pottial ticket but also house seats and senate seats. i know people are worried about what dan quayle might do to the first president bush s ability to get elected or what sarah palin might do, but what they weren t saying was this candidate has a record that
and i think if the democrats are lucky enough to have the whole rest of the campaign argued on the question of who s going to preserve medicare right. the republicans are going to lose. they ve got to be crazy. there s 8.3% unemployment. the economy is muddling along and so forth. if everything that mitt romney and paul ryan are not on that message and not on that message exclusively is a day they lost the chance to advance in this campaign. howard, all they have to do is buy half an hour of national television time for paul ryan to come on and explain to the country baseline assumptions in legislative packages. winning message. nothing to it. howard fineman and krystal ball. thank you. thanks, lawrence. coming up, rush limbaugh is lying about the presidential debate moderators before they ve asked a single question. why you need to fight rush s lies this time and not let him influence the presidential debates. that s coming pup .