i m sure there are place that my budget is better than his. [ inaudible ]. there may be. i will take a look at the differences. you said during a debate earlier this year, paul ryan s latest medicare proposal is absolutely right on. so i m curious, is there anything about it you disagree with? the items that we agree on i think outweigh any difference there is may be. we haven t gone through piece by piece and said, here is a place where there is a difference. i can t imagine any two people, even in the same party, who have exactly the same positions on all issues. now, republicans want to play offense on medicare, going after its entitlements in general and attract president on his health care law august strategy that romney himself also employed. do not do what the president s done and that is to cut $700 billion out of the current program. in fact, the president, depends on how you measure the word cut, did he not cut
is trying to define paul ryan first. democrats want to paint him as the ideological warrior determined to take away your medicare, republicans selling him as the serious candidate with a serious plan for the debt. my running mate, paul ryan, a great leader. what s gutsy about giving millionaires another tax break? what s gutsy what s gut bill is gutting medicare? he attacks problems. and he recognizes that 24r are hon rec differences between honest people and he looks to find twice find common ground. he is a very articulate spokesperson for governor romney s vision. the problem is it s the wrong vision for america. making his first solo campaign appearance at the iowa state fair, romney ryan tried to talk about the economy. as you see the president come you there on his bus tour, you might ask him the same question that i m getting asked from people all around america and that is where are the jobs, mr.
they want. the raw politics here. you talk about elevating the conversation. you think republicans made a mistake when they characterized what president obama did with medicare as a cut because was it was the exact same thing, democrats into republicans in 96. but the clinton commission in 99. i understand that. but i m talking about the politics. the reason we don t have the elevated debate at some point, at some points, the politics, by the way, you are part of the problem. this show, it is 24/7, minute by minute, twitter, all nine yards. at some point though, it is a different it is very illogical it is very philosophic philosophical, very different sets of values competing for the american public s attention so i think in that sense, it s good. i just want to take it to the next level and not he said/she said, this silly stuff, parenthetical stuff t is really how come i can t get a job? it is all about the deficit turks is about saving these programs, these programs a
for a defining moment in this country where we can have an honest debate about something that we know if we do nothing is going to end poorly. you know what this president has a record. people worse off today than three or four years ago, he didn t fulfill his promise. we are not only going to highlight the fact he failed but we have plans to save this country. we have to do that. do you think chuck mr. chairman, do you think republicans down the ballot are making a mistake if they try to distance themselves from paul ryan s budget? well, i think it s a mistake to shy away from something very clear if we don t do anything something about medicare, do what the president wants to do we will allow medicare to go bankrupt, we want to save it they want to go bankrupt and they have made everything worse. so i think that s what we need to talk about, something we are going to talk about on the campaign trail and we have got a
acknowledging the politics and the difficulties of this. i m going to talk too chairman of the rnc in a minute about that and some other things. finally, one place where republicans are eager to on the ryan budget is in the home state of wisconsin where republicans hold a senate primary today. the guy who recruited ryan for congress, former congressman mark newman, he is batting former governor tommy thompson, father of welfare reform. businessman eric hovde and assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald on the ballot. newmanen has the support of most of the tea batter groups, including the conservative club for growth. thompson is running an 11th hour radio ad featuring none other than new favorite son, paul ryan. at his rally sunday, paul ryan pointed to tommy s reforms as rallying cry for conservatives. tommy thompson, welfare reform, getting people off of welfare back to work. the winner of today s primary will take on the democratic