will really help romney. we have to realize how much of obama s appeal is generational. when you you are putting on a v.p. debate with a 25 or 25-year, i guess, difference in age, and one who is kind of a haggard regular old-time bomb baftic politician, and the other, a very incisive, sharp, focused policy person, i think that you really are going to see ryan have a tremendous edge. the other thing is that ryan wrote the romney program. this is not just a candidate for v.p., his the intellectual leader of the republican party today. for him to be up there debating in a political debate is like, you know, it s like mickey mantle coming to bat because he he wrote all of these programs. he knows these budgets. he knows these figures and biden is only vaguely aqaipted with them. i think ryan is going to do extremely well and that will be
gloria borger is with us, cnn s chief political analyst. both john king and have i been talking to sources as well as peter hanby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of us are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact a few of them are. i think what this shows us, a paul ryan pick is a calculation that mitt romney is going to a different generation, and that he intends to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real centerpiece of the campaign. i think what is interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men, biden and ryan came to congress at very young ages. i mean ryan ran for congress first when he was the age of 27 in 1988. and he 1998, and he asked his mentors jack kemp and bill bennett whether it would pass the laugh test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained the kid from janesvil
glor ya, tell us what your sources are saying? both john king and i have been talking to sources as well as peter hamby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of them are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact, a few of them are. and i think this shows us a calculation that mitt romney is tending to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real center piece of the campaign. i think what s interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men came to congress at very young ages. ryan ran for congress when he was the age of 27 in 1998. and he asked his hen tors whether it was pass a lab test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained a kid from jamesvillee who goes home every weekend. and then some of his family was killed in a tragic, tragic crash. but they were both the sort of stars of their parties
romney s conservative credentials and shows he s serious about economic change. romney will make his announcement in the battleground state of virginia. the military city of norfolk, aboard the uss wisconsin. event kickoff his campaign bus tour with his new running mate, a little more than three weeks before the republican national convention. we have complete coverage leading up to this dramatic announcement. candy crowley is here, gloria borger is here, john king is here, jim acosta is in nor folk. brianna keiler is at the white house. john let me start with you, a lot of us taken by surprise about this bold decision. a lot of us thought it would be somebody less controversial. tim pawlenty or rob portman the ohio senator. he decided to go bold. he decided to go bold. number one you have to give him credit not endorsing his pick, but somebody that will overshadow him. he s at the center of the debate about the budget. it s risky. he s 42 years old. he s a house member. so
romneyryan.com already running this morning. and it says, here s a chance to meet your comeback team. links to romney/portman and romney/rubio don t go anywhere. they will make the announcement in norfolk, virginia, at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. that s where he s kicking off a bus tour. brian monroe is the editor of cnnpolitics.com. he s joining me from our washington bureau. good morning. sources telling cnn, the v.p. pick will be paul ryan. what do you think? what would ryan bring to the ticket? this is going to be an interesting day for the romney campaign. this selection for mitt romney will either be i guess apparent selection of paul ryan, will either be his boldest move of the campaign, or some will look at it as his biggest mistake. paul ryan is a powerful force on the house budget committee. and has been the leading voice in major budget reform over the past several years. but he s no rookie. he s been in congress for 13 years. was actually elected in 1998. and was