budget committee. democrat iic congressman chris n holl hollen. and then re-opening the search with david axelrod and ed gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward with jessica yellen. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. no surprise, president obama s campaign and other democrats are wasting no time attacking the new romney/ryan presidential ticket. descriptions we ve heard thrown around so far, wrong, harsh and extreme. joining me now, former new hampshire governor and romney campaign adviser john sununu. welcome, governor, and good morning to you. nice to be on, candy. happy sunday. so let me ask you, this is certainly comes as a surprise to the romney campaign. they certainly knew ahead of time how this would taken. how do they move against what clearly is going to be an attempt to say, this is a man who wants to fundamentally change medicare and social security and going back to his rec
around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. per in this special hour, we are taking a close look at the man mitt romney asked to join him on the republican presidential ticket, congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. romney made the big announcement in front of the battleship, the uss wiscons. ryan was chairman of the house budget committee made a name for himself here in washington by battling deficits and fighting for cuts and spending. listen to highway mitt romney broke the news. it s an honor toannounce my running mate and the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan! his leadership his leadership begins with character and values. paul is a man of tremendous character shaped in large part in early life. paul s father died when he was in high school and forced him to grow up earlier than any young man should. with the help of his devoted mother, brothers and sister and a supportive community and as he did, he internalized the virtu
the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. in this special hour we will take a close look at the man mitt romney has skoed sked to join him on the presidential ticket, paul ryan. romney made the announcement from front of the battleship uss wisconsin. ryan made a name in washington by battling deficits and fighting for cuts in government spending. listen to how mitt romney broke the news. it s an honor to announce my running mate and the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan! his leadership his leadership begins with character and values. paul is a man of tremendous chacter shaped in large part by his early life. paul s father died when he was in high school and that forced him to grow up earlier than any young man should, but paul did with the help of his devoted mother, his brothers and sister, and a supportive community. as he did he internalized the virtues and hard working effort of the midwest. paul ryan works in washington but his
in this special hour, we re taking a close look at the man mitt romney s asked to join him on the republican presidential ticket, congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. fittingly, romney made the big announcement in front of the battle ship, the uss wisconsin. ryan is chairman of the house budget committee, made a name for himself here in washington, by battling deficits and fighting for cuts in government spending. listen to how mitt romney broke the news. it s an honor to announce my running mate and the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan! [ cheers and applause ] his leadership his leadership begins with character and values. paul is a man of tremendous character, shaped in large part by his early life. paul s father died when he was in high school. that forced him to grow up earlier than any young man should, but paul did, with the help of his devoted mother, his brothers and sister, and a supportive community. and as he did, he internalized the virtues
these horrible things. that s a democratic argument. you have to count that in. senior citizens, 55 and older, 65% voted republican. the next group. paul ryan would not touch medicare who is in it or close to it. 45 to 64, republicans won 53% to 45 personally in house races. the democrats tried this. again it s not apples and apples. but they did raise this argument and said if you elect these guys you ll get that budget plan and they lost the argument. other issues were in play. wasn t this an anti-health care vote too? there were other factors in year. it was pro republican year, antiobama year. they ve seen that come at them. that s their counterargument. i want to take a quick break but go ahead. the idea we were going to own it anyway, they weren t going own it closely. didn t have to be a fight about motion security and now it is. it is different. they have, as i say, a bring it on choice for mitt romney. i guarantee in the fall. we haven t heard it from p