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Can paul ryan play that role? i don t think we really know. for those of us who have covered congress, like all three of us, and those of us in washington, we know paul ryan really well. he s been in congress 14 years. but the reality is, he s not really well known outside of our circles. you look at your poll yesterday, the nbc/ wall street journal poll, and something like 40% of americans don t really have a view at all. it s either neutral or they don t have enough information. so ryan has never taken this stage before. it s a lot like dan quayle, almost, in 1988. where quayle sort of came out of nowhere, and had to deliver this big speech, with a lot of different expectations going on. so, i don t think we know the answer. we ll find out wednesday night. god willing, there s no hurricane to derail it. sue davis, paul kane, the tune-in duo. paul kane still not on twitter. you are the last of the mohicans still not on twitter. ....
It be around? how much more legs does it have? luke, it s president obama at that fund-raiser last night was trying to keep it in the news one more day. it has been the story on monday, tuesday, and we re heading into thursday. republicans want that to be the issue. what are the two main stories we re talking about? abortion, rape, and oh, by the way that hurricane that s probably going to be might be headed to tampa, florida. the map remains unchanged, we saw that. wisconsin, romney, a little bit. ohio, obama still on top of romney. why after two months, these la two months, that were high-octane, especially after the paul ryan aspect, is there no change? this is trench warfare. well, one thing is that the romney people have probably pointed out they ve got a little bit of a bump in states like wisconsin and florida after the paul ryan announcement in the ....
He didn t know jack kemp, but he sought him out and went to work for jack kemp and bill bennett. he entered the conservative movement right out of college and that s been his rise since. it only took him six years to run for congress at the age of 38. conservative intelligenceia. that s always been ryan s world and it still is ryan s base. i think it s interesting. i interviewed jack kemp about ryan a couple years ago. one of the thing he is predicted that he would be the chairman of ways and means, which is where he is now. which is really interesting, what he would say now. interesting stuff. we have a lot more to talk about with our panel. but first, trivia time! we asked, which politician used to greet former house speaker sam rayburn by kissing his bald head? you got a preview of the answer have harry smith. we always like when harry smith delivers the answer. he answered correctly. it was lyndon johnson. but he didn t have the art. ....
i think you are going to hear that, but i think you ll also he s also working with dan senor on this speech, so i think you ll hear a little bit about foreign policy from paul ryan in his speech. but, yeah, it is interesting. because on capitol hill, you didn t hear him talk about much about these social issues. so i think you will hear a piece of that. i don t think it s going to focus on that, but i think introducing him will be a part of it. and i think one of the challenges for democrats, they re trying to paint this picture of paul ryan as being extremist and using various bits of evidence, but when paul ryan talks, he doesn t talk like a stereotypical conservative bomb thrower. he may be a more elusive target as paul ryan gets more and more attention. rob, you ve been studying the sort of history about paul ryan, how he grew up. i found this fascinating about the jobs he took after his father passed. let s play a clip from the hugh hewitt radio show. i used to write spe ....
That s what our party must be all about. there you have jack kemp, who is fired up like that when he was quarterback for the buffalo bills in the huddle, i m sure. let s bring in our panel, nathan gonzalez, political editor with the rothenberg political report and contributing writer for roll call. robert costa is a political reporter for national review and a notre dame graduate. we don t hold that against him. and jackie kucinich covers politics for usa today. welcome, all, to the daily rundown . great to see you, luke. let s start right out on paul ryan, because robert, you ve been studying him quite closely, and this akin story that is chasing him all the way until thursday. he s going to be in missouri tonight, albeit for fund-raising. he said this to kdak about abortion. you sponsored legislation that has the language forcible rape. what is forcible rape as opposed to rape is rape, period. end of story. so that forcible rape language meant nothing to you at ....