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Florida today being about, i wonder who republicans will pick tonight to run against bill nelson, or i wonder if a ten-term congressman will get voted out of office tonight, the conversation in florida is instead, i wonder if mitt romney and paul ryan are seriously going to kill medicare if they re nominaelected in novemb. medicare and paul ryan s plans for it, being the discussion in florida now, that is a problem for your campaign. you now somehow have to convince the country, you have to somehow convince senior citizens in florida that you don t really want to kill medicare even though you just put the kill medicare guy on the ticket. understandably, this has tied the romney campaign into knots for if first few days of having paul ryan to answer for. dating back to last year, mitt romney has gone back and forth and forth and back about whether he was for the paul ryan kill medicare budget or whether he was against it. so much has happened since then that i think his incoherence on t ....
As his running mate, that incoherence is not just history anymore. it s policy for now. and it is maybe their biggest problem with putting mr. ryan on the ticket. mr. romney, his campaign, and his surrogates cannot seem to decide if mr. romney is for paul ryan s kill medicare plan or if they re against it. a spokesperson for mr. romney told us mr. romney is on the same page as paul ryan in terms of reducing the budget, but the spokesperson told us that mr. romney will be proposing his own changes regarding medicare. with regards to medicare, i would lay out the plan that, well, actually i did a couple months ago that said, again, for higher income recipients, lower benefit. a premium support program which allows people to buy either current standard medicare or a private plan, and this is the proposal which congressman paul ryan has adopted. it s a proposal which i believe is absolutely right on. you said during a debate earlier this year paul ryan s latest medicare proposal is ....
its absolutely cuts. you re flat wrong. you want to spin that out, fine. i am not wrong. i am 100% right. partisan season now. i understand that. you want to start spinning that stuff that way, fine. it is savings. how are they getting savings. congressional budget office says over this period of time, using his plans you re going to save that much money in medicare. how will they get it. call draconian cuts. fine. you guys have been out to kill medicare and social security. fine. you want to rip apart the safety net. you re struggling. $700 billion in cuts. democrats you never met a safety net you like. martha: reach for the maalox. we ll see the adult conversation continued at 5:00. couple more hours. martha: thanks, bob. gregg: i have mylanta, bob, if you need it. drop by my office. a texas gunman opens fire on a police officer and now we re learning why, the chilling videotape that tells some of the story coming up next. at first, i didn t think it was r ....
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Montana s seniors rely on. that s the republican party of montana running that ad. these are republicans running against paul ryan. bragging that they didn t vote for this toxic paul ryan kill medicare thing. heather wilson, the republican nominee for senate in new mexico was careful to tell her home town newspaper, i didn t agree with everything in the ryan plan. i was concerned with some of his approaches to medicare. even slightly wacky linda mcmahon is running away from the paul ryan plan saying she would never support a budget like that. my friend steve benin who writes at maddowblog.com has had a useful framing for thinking about how candidates pick vice presidential nominees. they re almost augusts or novembers or januarys. the strongest possible candidate will pick a january. pick somebody who will help them govern once they get elected. sort of middle of the road candidate will pick somebody with an eye toward november. november, somebody who will help them get elected in the ....