and that gave virginia governor bob mcdonnell s national profile a national profile that scuttled any chances he had of being picked as mitt romney s vice president. a washington post column back in february talking about how he fell off the short list for vice president because of the ultrasound fight he got himself into in virginia. assuming that the republican presidential candidate is mitt romney, it would be much harder for him now to tap governor bob mcdonnell as a running mate. they would have to devote time to defending the ultrasound bill. the ultrasound controversy was probably very unhelpful to the calculus that romney will make at the convention. bob mcdonnell in virginia made the mistake of becoming nationally famous for his stance on his state s ultrasound bill. that made him politically untouchable and toxic on the national stage. do you want to know who co-sponsored the national version of the bob mcdonnell forced ultrasound bill? congressman paul ryan of wisconsin.
bob mcdonnell s national profile a national profile that scuttled any chances he had of being picked as mitt romney s vice president. a washington post column back in february talking about how he fell off the short list for vice president because of the ultrasound fight he got himself into in virginia. assuming that the republican presidential candidate is mitt romney, it would be much harder for him now to tap governor bob mcdonnell as a running mate. they would have to devote time to defending the ultrasound bill. the ultrasound controversy was probably very unhelpful to the calculus that romney will make at the convention. bob mcdonnell in virginia made the mistake of becoming nationally famous for his stance on his state s ultrasound bill. that made him politically untouchable and toxic on the national stage. do you want to know who co-sponsored the national version of the bob mcdonnell forced ultrasound bill? congressman paul ryan of wisconsin.
paul ryan as being famous for that one thing he s really famous for, for being the republicans young budget want guy. it s day four of paul ryan s vice presidential run, and that no longer appears to be the only thing he s famous for. starting off with a 15-point deficit among women voters, the romney campaign is now coming to grips with the fact they re about to nominate for vice president the man who brought forth the national version of virginia s forced ultrasound bill and the national version of the personhood bill that would ban most popular forms of birth control in this country and that couldn t even pass in mississippi. joining us now is karen finney, msnbc political analyst and columnist for the hill. she s a former communications director for the democratic party. i m resisting the urge to say hey girl. go on, just do it. you know you want to. it sounds like i m reading a script, so i m not going to. let me ask you if you think these quick out of the blocks efforts to
ultrasound thing in a lot of states. the only reason it didn t end up going through in pennsylvania, for example, was because governor tom corbett of pennsylvania got caught on tape explaining in that way he has that there isn t an avertyour eyes provision in that state s version of the bill. making them watch, and speaking to that, does that go too far in your mind? i don t know how you can make anybody watch, okay, because you just have to close your eyes. you just have to close your eyes. governor tom corbett explaining that is part of the reason that pennsylvania, i think, did not get the forced ultrasound bill. paul ryan s bill for a national forced ultrasound law, it has the exact same avertyo your eye clause. it has the ability to turn eyes away. that s who the republicans picked for their vice
chances when he became governor ultrasaund, forcing medically unnecessarily ultrasounds on virginia women and forcing them to pay for it. bob mcdonnell blew it and romney went with the republican budget want guy, with none of that baggage. except paul ryan is not just the budget want guy. in addition to his sponsoring the ban on all abortions and the most popular forms of birth control and most in vitro fertilization in the country, he has also supported a federal version of bob mcdonnell s virginia forced ultrasound bill. he sponsored a federal bill to force women seeking an abortion to undergo a medical procedure regardless of whether or not they want it, regardless of whether or not their doctor thinks it s the right decision, but just because the government says you have to. the latest nbc/wall street journal poll has mitt romney losing women to president obama by 15 points. so i guess now is as good a time as any to welcome congressman