ask congressman ryan what his biggest surprise has been so far as vice presidential candidate for him and his wife? it s been a lot less stressful and more fun than i anticipated. people said it would drain me. it actually energizes me. pleasant surprise. bret: congressman ryan, thank you very much for your time. good luck in your journey down here to tampa. we ll see you here at the convention center. all right, bret. see you later. congressman ryan. we ll air more clips from him. you heard what he had to say in that part. get reaction from senior political analyst brit hume. good evening. you sat down with congressman ryan in colorado. your thoughts? wonderful example of what is the ryan effect. look at the things that you an congressman ryan were discussing. you were in details of the tax plan, you were in detail of the medicare. and details of all the issues.
ask congressman ryan what his biggest surprise has been so far as vice presidential candidate for him and his wife? it s been a lot less stressful and more fun than i anticipated. people said it would drain me. it actually energizes me. pleasant surprise. bret: congressman ryan, thank you very much for your time. good luck in your journey down here to tampa. we ll see you here at the convention center. all right, bret. see you later. congressman ryan. we ll air more clips from him. you heard what he had to say in that part. get reaction from senior political analyst brit hume. good evening. you sat down with congressman ryan in colorado. your thoughts? wonderful example of what is the ryan effect. look at the things that you an congressman ryan were discussing. you were in details of the tax plan, you were in detail of the medicare. and details of all the issues.
to say. in one week he thought he was in the wrong state. he thought he was in the wrong country. he didn t know that paul ryan was a congressman and of course he said this awful thing. the other three i don t know. everybody makes mistakes but joe seems to make a disproportionate number of mistakes. and i really do believe and don t get offended because republicans believe this, we all believe this, we believe we re treated more unfairly by the media than democrats. i truly believe that were a republican, sarah palin made that level of mistakes, dick cheney, he d be plastered all over the media, the new york times would go nuts, they d be raising questions about is he smart enough, what s going on. how does a guy make so many mistakes? is he fit to be president? that s really why i said it because i want to even up the score. you can see our entire conversation, rudy giuliani, on our blog, by the way, meet the press nbc.com. chuck todd the biden effect. we talk about the ryan ef
things people trust the republican party on. this is all very delicate. it s strong, but it s delicate. we ll come back to medicare in a few minutes. but, there s a dynamic here, and you see it playing out, we ve got some pictures from around the country, in terms of just how polarized the electorate is. and even different from four years ago, there was plenty of polarization. but here you do have a very clear choice. and the high-minded campaign has not really shown up yet. what you ve got is a lot of anger on both sides. and that s going to stay. i don t think we re going to have a high-minded. i think the debates will be interesting to watch but let me go back to another point about sort of the ryan effect. i believe we re on day 25. it s been 25 days since the romney campaign had a coordinated push on the economy. everything, and that was basically the day before he left or his overseas trip, the overseas trip got caught up in some things, the olympics, what he said in israel.
we ll come back to medicare in a few minutes. but, there s a dynamic here, and you see it playing out, we ve got some pictures from around the country, in terms of just how polarized the electorate is. and even different from four years ago, there was plenty of polarization. but here you do have a very clear choice. and the high-minded campaign has not really shown up yet. what you ve got is a lot of anger on both sides. and that s going to stay. i don t think we re going to have a high-minded. i think the debates will be interesting to watch but let me go back to another point about sort of the ryan effect. i believe we re on day 25. it s been 25 days since the romney campaign had a coordinated push on the economy. everything, and that was basically the day before he left or his overseas trip, the overseas trip got caught up in some things, the olympics, what he said in israel. then, the speculation, and the ryan pick shifts the issue area to medicare. you know, looking back, are