Past. take a listen to ryan. he didn t do things that were centrist. he stayed hard left. so if it he can t run on his record, if he didn t moderate what has he got left? he is going to divide and distract this country to win an election by default. and you know what? we are not going to fall for that. reporter: next move for paul ryan you heard from it carl are is continuing the bus tour through battleground states. the president has a bus tour of his own starting monday in iowa for three whole days. big battleground state. and paul ryan going one on one with vice president biden october 11. only one debate, october 11 in kentucky. should be fascinating. ed henry at the white house working a saturday for us. thanks a lot. congressman ryan has served seven terms in the u.s. house. a catholic who voted against gay marriage and against the repeal of don t ask don t tell but it is his controversial budget plan that helped hypocrisy him to the national
Credit. they had a nice opening day but the problem is that romney s whole pitch has been jobs and the economy. now, the argument is going to be paul ryan s plan and that includes some ver didn t versil things and gives us an opening to keep going at that and keep romney off the message of jobs and employment. i don t understand that. shepard: reading around on the liberal sites on the web they are reminding us that two thirds of the ryan budget cuts go directly at poor people and the middle class. that those budget cuts i m guessing that is what we will hear from democrats loudly. you will hear it over and over and over again. and people for example under the plan that he has got people who make a million four get a $400,000 tax break. if you want to talk about class war fare they gave us substance behind the class war fare and that is one of ryan s problems. medicare and cuts and keep defense the way it is. social security, mess with
Towns. shepard: on monday congressman ryan will visit the iowa state fair just as president obama kicks off a campaign is swing through that state. tonight, the president is not commenting on governor romney s new running mate. in fact, he sort of avoided those questions today. but the president s staffers and supporters certainly are. campaign manager says and i the architect of the radical republican house budget ryan like romney proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires and deep cuts in education from head start to college aid. it goes on to say his plan would end medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in healthcare costs to seniors. governor romney says congressman ryan s plan would save medicare for future generations. the romney campaign reports it has raised more than $2 million just since the governor introduced his new running mate this morning.
shepard: mitt romney made it official and chose congressman paul ryan as his running mate. he endorsed governor romney at a critical time during the republican primaries back at the end of march. now, the romney campaign is looking for congressman ryan to provide another boost and this time all the way to the white house. ed roll rollins a gop political consultant. former campaign manager for michele bachmann and mike huckabee and fox news political analyst and contributor. paul ryan, how do you think? beckel laid out what the democrats are going to do and i don t disagree with what he says. my counter to that, a bright guy that can articulate and knows more about the budget than anybody. fiscal responsibility is important. somebody has to indict this administration for the things they have done and failed to do. he knows a lot more about the budget than obviously romney does. at the end of the day you have to win with the candidate. it has to be o romney who wins these states and
That. argue it is a bold plan but a bold plan that is fundamentally changing. a friend of mine that is a republican said to me whenever republicans touch medicare they lose and it is true. a dangerous place for them to be treading. and about an attack dog, ryan may have sounded tough there. you can take chris christie who is an attack dog, this guy is a what way way. the righchihuahua. democrats must be worried about those things. the money is already there. the votes that paul ryan presumably would attract are already there. they are are going to be out there against obama anyway. the key was to try to get somebody who could bring constituent icy like rubio he wouldn t have in hispanics. but what you got by having ryan is you got senior citizens which are voting republican