unless you take away the deductions. that s where i m going. i m going to get to that in a second. lowering the tax base works and you can. let me just you haven t given me the math. look, i don t have the it would take me too long to go overall of the math. it would take too long to do the math? this isn t a pop quiz. it s a presidential election. even the conservatives are fed up with the lack of details. here s what laura ingraham said when she called in today. what i don t understand about this, if you have a different vision for this administration, i think the people of the country definitely need to know what the specifics of that different vision is. look, we know why romney and ryan don t want to come clean on their tax plan, because it literally doesn t added a up. in fact, one economic study says their plan was, quote, not
when you re offering very specific, bold solutions, confusion can be your enemy s best weapon. now, he s running for vice president. he s on a morning talk show on a sunday and if you got into specifics, people would start changing the channel? the thing s. i continue to go on the show and say, i understand what they are trying to say. i do understand what paul ryan is trying to say. the problem is, people like me can t go on and explain what they are doing. as richard said, they are going to have to get down to brass tax and specific. it s exhausting for republicans right now. i am at my wit s ends with this. i am hoping on wednesday governor romney will do this during the debate but this is the exact reason why we re losing and whether republicans like it or not, we re going to have to get things down to 140 characters and sound bites to put all over the media. this is the era we are living in and for whatever republicans and specifically this campaign continue to ignore that and
talk about it s about your mama, not obama, the question of the great society programs that really help people get by who are not looking for a handout but needed the government to help them, isn t this the core of what is really bothering a lot of americans about what romney s representing? absolutely. it s not only medicare and social security, it s also medicaid. it s the structure programs that were first put into effect and certainly social security and minimum wage, the right to bargain and collectively bargain on a 40-hour work week. and then you have the great society, medicare, medicaid, so forth and these have been the fabric of lives now. people are deeply dependent on the programs and they are also very popular. people who don t like government, they say, don t take away my medicare so romney has
conservative pundits. well, conservative pundits, you know, mainstream republican, nobody has been a huge romney constituency here. you know, conservatives loved it when romney got put on the ticket. they thought this was a good sign that the romney campaign was finally going to be about something. they ve been disappointed so far that ryan has been turned more into romney than the other way around. so he s the obvious person to be sent out there to talk to these guys. but i m just not sure how soothing he can be in terms of the top of the ticket in this case. in terms of the soothing, dana, bob dole was very soothing to mr. romney or he wrote over this weekend an op ed piece that i m sure was intended to be soothing. i certainly wouldn t have liked it if i was the nominee. but his intent, i m sure, was to be soothing because he wrote no one aspires to be defeated a
saving detroit. and he s just as hapless on taxes. raise taxes with obama care but he s got another taxes in mind. governor romney doesn t need zingers. he needs to get his story straight. he needs to stop debating himself. and at the end of the day, this election isn t about one liners. just ask our president. i know folks in the media are speculating already on who s going to have the best zingers. what i m most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hardworking americans. that s what people are going to be listening for. that s the debate that you deserve. that s the debate voters deserve. and on wednesday night, they won t be distracted by any