it reminded me of the bob dole speech in 1996, which was a strong indictment of bill clinton. there was a line that really stuck out. governor romney talk about president obama lacking thea qualification most americans have, which is private sector experience. bob dole said bill clinton, his administration was filled with the league still had never done a single real thing. it was evocative of that. it was a combination of a few different speeches in my memory. >> we will be able to compare this speech to the president anext week. what do you expect next week from the president, and what you think the romney campaign needs to do to get out of this tonight and tomorrow in the polls and this election? >> the president will make the case that he has had a successful first term. he was dealt a bad hand when he came into office. i think governor romney acknowledged that as congressman ryan did. he will talk about his record and led a vision. probably specific things. one of the things that surprised me was that governor romney did not get into a lot of detail. in 1980, when ronald

here's what he said. >> senator bob dole who is standing by in his headquarters. anything you'd like to say to him. >> i wish him well and meet him in the south. >> and senator dole, anything you'd like to say to the vice president? >> yeah. stop lying about my record. >> hey, mark. the look on that guy, it was bob dole in his most demonic. when you call -- i think he was finished after doing that, myself. >> you're right, chris. the hilarious thing is they're not even using it about someone they're running against. they're using it against harry reid. even if they destroy harry reid and reid more than anyone else in politics could not care less what they're calling him. the only other thing as funny as calling reid a liar which is useless to them is you have david axelrod and carney and reid saying this whole thing would end if you let the tax returns. >> last question very briefly now. he gave a speech for a group that does business with iran. is that an issue or not? >> zero issue whatsoever to any voter. >> thank you very much for that summation. thank you mark

they don't know bob dole, and it they don't know jack kemp. b and i have said before and will continue to say throughout this campaign, with a pro-growth republican congress, balancing the budget while cutting taxes is just a matter of presidential will. if you have it, you can do it. bob dole has it, and bob dole will do it. [applause] you can count on it. and guess what? and guess what? and guess what? all the critics -- i will be with him at his side every step of the way. [applause] >> i have been given an opportunity to serve beside a man who has the courage and vision and the goodness to be a great president, gov. george w. bush. [applause] i have been in the company of leaders. i was there on august 9, 1974, when gerald ford assumed the presidency during the gravest constitutional crisis since the civil war. i saw how character and decency can dignify a great office and unite a great nation. [applause] i was a congressman when another man of integrity lived in the white house. i saw a president restore america's confidence and prepare th

but another thing that is interesting, 1996, bob dole selecting kemp. it was bob dole who had been an eisenhower style republican, a deficit hawk, never bought into the supply side stuff, reinvenlted himself and embraced supply side economics, he embraced jack kemp's economic philosophy because he needed to do that to energize the republican base and give him something, quote, big to run on in the fall. i saw shades of that in romney was announcement because he had a similar guy who is not trusted by the republican party base, needs to energize them, needs something to define his campaign, so what did he do or what did it look like he was going to do? embrace ryanism. the ryan budget. going to embrace the ryan medicare plan and roll the dice and see if they could sell the press and public on the idea they were courageous truth tellers telling people things they didn't want to hear but needed to hear. it made sense to me. they're don in the polls. the summer isn't going to way they want it to go, so this is the risk you take. they have decided a week int

bob dole was in '76, jerry ford's pick but didn't get elected. i think he feels ryan secures the conservative base and is articulate, full of ideas and eneveryone,y and provides a more youthful stance to the ticket than maybe picking anyone else. >> we're going to have to leave it at that. >> one last thing. >> go ahead. >> this is daniel webster who turned down the vice presidenty because i don't propose to be buried until i'm dead. i thought that was a great line about sometimes who the vice president is, and as the vice president, the vice president position is now a lot more important than -- . >> all right. mark plotkin. i love to hear your quips and says. >> yeah. >> thank you for your insight tonight. >> thank you. >>> the news edge in maryland. part of a two-week crime initiative to transform neighborhoods. specialized patrol officers and detectives will saturate the sixth most crime-ridden areas of the county. the main focus, getting as many guns as possible off of the street. that is the bottom line. >> the timing couldn't be better. ho

man in america. >> not even bob dole beaut that.ney hopes people will buy it from him. >> there is it a totally different tone. i expect on thursday when governor mitt romney gets up there tell be a uplifting speech and rather than a downer. but president obama in charlotte. i expect if you vote for those guys watch out. they will wreck your life. i expect a difference in tone. >> i would rather suspect what you will hear from the democratic speakers and president himself is all of those messages of fear and anxiety, but i think he will have to end on a high note. if he doesn't it will not work. he will try to anyway. >> what is sandra fluck a high member of the democratic machine commission of the man who the new york times under control. those repor >> we told you in the talking points memo, 30 year old sandra fluck who wants everyone to pay for her birth control is given a prom nept speaking in the democratic convention. juan williams is in tampa, florida. sandra fluck, good idea? >> it is terrific and surprised you call her extr

home of the people like dwight eisenhower and bob dole.garded a conservative in the 70s and 80s. and today sam brownback would toss him out too. he would be done for. but that's the kind of place as well. they had you know, democrats as well. is it began moving to the right pretty ferociously in the early 1990s. there has been this war between the moderates and croft conservatives in the kansas government ever since. there was always this traditional conservatism when i grew up, but yesterday was the and of the road for them. well, they had this foothold, this tail hold in the kansas senate. >> jennifer: can you imagine? thomas the idea of a sitting governor going after members of his own party and knocking them out in partnership with the kochs to be able to remaining an already red legislature even more red is astonishing. >> jennifer, it's been going on in kansas a long time. it's been going on in other places. to make this more frightening, as long as we're going on with the pod-man emphasis tonight. kansas we often think it's a back w

this is now starting to shape up like 1996, bill clinton versus bob do bob dole. on went after bob legal and said they'll change welfare as we know it. that phrase will be coming back. it will be back to the future in the months ahead. >> this is what we're waiting for. it's really exciting now. jim acosta at the nor norfolk "uss wisconsin" thank you very much. >>> we want to tell you important news, including syria's relentless violence. hillary clinton in talks with turkish leaders. we'll have the latest for you next. [ female announcer ] quaker yogurt granola bars. they're whole grain good... and yummy good. real fruit pieces. 12 grams of whole grains and a creamy yogurt flavored coating. quaker yogurt granola bars. treat yourself good. quaker yogurt granola bars. it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. ma

bob dole, wrong in the past. wrong for our future. >> dole/gingrich then. romney/ryan this year.'s what the democrats were going to do anyway. now it's a lot easier. bill clinton won a second term in '96. of course. another poster child for privatizing the social safety net is this guy. >> you ask do i feel free. let me put it to you this way. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital. now i intend to spend it. it's my style and i'm going to spend it for what i told the people i would spend it on. which is you've heard the agenda. social security and tax reform and moving this economy forward. >> president bush after winning re-election in 2004 declaring his election a mandate, vowing to push through privatizing social security. the country not only said no to that, the country threw up a little bit in their mouth as they said no to it. the more bush talked about privatizing social security, the less popular it got. then republicans paid for it at the polls. well, that was under way, it was congressman paul ryan who was pushing an even more radical version of social sec

walter mondale, bob dole, al gore, john mccain tried to shake things up. all lost any way. the question is, whether the ryan pick will be more than a short-term boost. will romney's relaunch do anything to change the fundamentals. this seems to be the big question. now, mitt romney knows that florida where medicare is king and where a lot of people are on it will be pivot come november and he's in the sunshine state today and treading carefully. peter alexander is there with us here in a minute and he'll be doing that, but we will be moving on and we're waiting for him. is peter ready? well, let's go on to -- let's check in now with peter at that rally. romney's already been speaking there. >> reporter: good to visit with you, sorry. some technical issues on this end. governor romney's going to be here in a moment. also joining him on the podium, rick scott as well as marco rubio. he was one of the other names thrown around at vice presidential choice. we were told he was one of the last people to be told he had not been selected. as we talk to the seniors in this state, it

he helped set up the commission for africa, which drew in both political leaders and those led by bob dole doff >> he was one of the friends of the western and afghan, but domestically, he was not appreciated. he was a proletarian leader. >> and when in 2005 he won yet another election, it was badly stained by the brutal treatment of those who disputed his victory. nearly two lender people died in the government crackdown. -- nearly 200 people died. western leaders broadly chose to look away, because the ethiopian upside -- leader's looked better than the downside. his ethiopia represented stability. he was a sworn enemy of the islam mix -- of the islamists in neighboring somalia. his water legacy is of an ethiopia transformed, with educational standards rising fast, alongside a decade of economic growth, but tonight, as his body went home, there is great uncertainty. is ethiopia at risk of weak leadership simply because he was 21 years in power? bbc news. >> and other news from around the world, church leaders have persuaded some to me to striking workers after violent confrontations wher

both parties have demagogued this issue over the years, whether bill clinton's ads against bob dole, or more recently, republican attacks against democrats in the 2010 midterm election. when mitt romney brought out the white board thursday to clarify his plan, he was baited back into talking about his own tax returns. >> i did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years, i never paid less than 13%. >> the obama campaign was quick to respond. "since there is substantial reason to doubt his claims, we have a simple message for him, prove it." howard fineman, calling mitt romney a liar on this? >> they don't believe him. >> are they succeeding in keeping the story going? >> the obama campaign will keep trying. before the paul ryan selection, that was topic a for several days, if not weeks, mitt romney's taxes and the obama campaign strategy is to paint mitt romney as a guy that doesn't understand mainstream america and barack obama does. >> major, that has been the larger reason why they do this week, we know considering we are coming close to the conventions. romneys are be

i'm thinking of 1996 when bob dole, you want to talk about a dour personality who turned voters off. republican convention telling the bob dole story. >> and then he lost. >> sure, i'm not saying it's going to help in the fall, but i'm not surprised we'll hear great reviews after tonight. >> that's not what bush and clinton can talk about, but go ahead. >> what ann romney can do is remind megaof a moment mitt and ann had before. take a look. >> most of our events were involving humor of one another, most of which cannot be repeated on the air. >> they were involving humor. just be funny. then we know that you're humorous. it reminds me the same thing. it's not enough to have a family member saying he's likable, i swear, he'll warm. be warm and likable then we'll know you're warm and likable. it is not enough to have the wife do it. i think ann will give a fantastic speech and will be warm. she has a much better delivery style in that way, more personal than mitt. s.e., what do you think? >> i hear what you're saying. a couple points i want to make. mitt romney has a personal story. s

he took kemp as the running mate, bob dole who had been a sort of eisenhower republican, never bought into the supply side stuff. reinvented himself in the middle of the summer and embraced supply-side economics, embraced jack kemp's economic philosophy. he believed he needed to do that to energize the republican base and give himself something "big" to fall on. i saw shades in romney's announcement. have you a same guy, similar guy, not trusted by the republican party base. you need something to define the campaign. what did he do? what did it look like he would do? he would embrace ryanism, the ryan budget, the ryan medicare plan and roll the dice and see if they could sell the press and public, saying they are courageous truth tellers. they are down the positively, summer not going the way they wanted it to go. this is the rifblg you take. now it basically seems like a week into this thing, they want to run with paul ryan and strip ryan out of this. they have gone through the most elaborate possible means to get to a generic vice presidential candidate. that's what they are trying

back looking at what paul ryan had become, jack kemp was on the vice presidential ticket, he was bob dole's running mate, i would imagine paul ryan wants a better result. but what is it that your dad saw in paul ryan early on? do you remember? >> well, in 1993 when paul went to work with my father examine bill benefit jet and gene kirkpatrick, any young person who was around dad l it was during his days on the hill or at empower america, they seemed to be attracted to his personality, his style of politics, and his optimism for the country and dad wanted young people to learn about what he called and what paul clearly learned very well is the american idea, which at its root is really the human idea for all people. >> neil: do you think that what was a tough sell in 1996 when bill clinton was running for reelection might be a better one or at least a more drivable one in 2012? >> well, the comparison to make between kemp and ryan frankly is jack kemp circa 1980. dad was a congressman, elected in 1970 from western new york in a pretty balanced district. it certainly wasn't republican. and th

bob dole. wrong in the past. >> reporter: in 2010 republicans turned the tables on democrats. this year the ryan medicare plan is already drawing fire in senate races. in north dakota democrats are attacking a house republican who voted for ryan's plan. >> rick berg, who is doing things the washington way, voting to essentially end medicare. >> reporter: in montana the republican candidate is actually trying to distance himself from ryan. >> and rehberg refused to support a republican budget plan that cou harm the medicare program. >> reporter: as for romney, who has voiced support for ryan's plan, he distanced himself from it last night. >> well, i have my budget plan and that's the budget plan that we're going to run on. >> reporter: brian, the romney campaign is most concerned about the impact of the medicare issue in florida of course, not just an important battleground but the battleground state with the largest share of voters over the age of 65. brian, ryan gets his first test of defending his plan in florida when he comes there alone campaigning this weekend. >> chuck

and bob dole and former presidential candidate and a telegraph thursday and what he had to say aboutty. we have to be open and we can't be a single-isshoe or single-philosophy party and there is a big split in the party and a undercurrent of rigid conservatism where you dare not toe the line. and i want you to take that comment by bob dole and combine it with senator scott brown of massachusetts who wrote a letter to reince priebus and said, you need to open up the party more with some language in the abortion plank of the party platform that leaves room for people with different views and what is so wrong with that? >> well, i think that we do need to realize that people come are the different states a, and tha requires maybe a different type of representation. mothers and daughters can disagree on abortion, and we shouldn't put a party around an issue that is so personal and religious-based. i think that we need to say, here are our principles and we welcome you as a republican. we can disag grree on any numbef issues, but if you want to be a republican, we welcome you, and i think

. >> john meacham, we're a long way even from the senate of bob dole or george mitchell, aren't we?it's the coarsening -- you can notice how coarse this is without being overly sentimental about the past. senator dole is a good example of how quite a falling off there. >> and, al, bob dole used to aggravate republicans like us in the house when we were younger and more hot headed but you realize now how critically important it is that you have a senate that can work together, that sort of cools the coffee down and we just don't have that anymore. >> with bob dole it was howard baker, george mitchell, all of whom had their partisan side but all of whom cared most about the institution and about the country. and were not constantly looking for partisan advantage. on harry reid, -- this is something you can't win. mitt romney ought to release those tax returns and get it over with. >> it's not like some of the attacks on the president about his birth certificate, which were ridiculous. we're asking for something -- >> we're talking about a senate majority leader here. >> i think he sho

highest unfavorable since 1988, i couldn't go back any further with those numbers or since 1996 with bob dole. >> what's driving this? it's more than people don't like him. >> it's because they've seen nothing but negative ads since april. since all of us get to live in the media market which covers virginia, you all know what it's like to turn on to tell vision and just see the nonstop. it's just negative ad after negative ad. barack obama has known really very early on the way to win this race is to make it a referendum on mitt romney, to make him an unacceptable alternative. they have done that by raising his negatives. they're saying that's the way to make him unacceptable. gwen: but the romney people figured out the same thing. >> but can't they figure out it can't be a referendum on obama. >> it's a great point. the first thing you're starting to see mitt romney tell his own story. speaking of ads, there's a new ad right now, mitt romney riding his own car. driving while talking. at least he's not on the cell phone. where he tells his story in his voice. if you talk to voters, they will

kemp also joined bob dole as his vice presidential running mate in 1996. mr. kemp championed tax cuts to bolster growth. he passed away in 2009. paul ryan is a roman catholic. he is married to janna little. and has three children. mrs. ryan is a lawyer. their home is in wisconsin. where ryan is a sportsman. he likes to hunt. he likes to fish. he likes to snowmobile. when congress is in session, congressman ryan stays in washington, and often sleeps in his capitol hill office. when his work piles up, paul with his in bethesda, maryland, just outside dc. question, how much of a boost does ryan give to the g.o.p. ticket? >> pat buchanan? >> he gave it a real boost, john. i think r-mitt romney was in a slew of derespond, if you will. he was dropping in the polls. he bringing youth. he bridges energy. he brings exciple. he energizes the conservative base of the party. he is a likeable young fellow. he is 30 years younger you got to realize than go biden the vice president for the incumbent president of the united states and what he brings of course is a tremendous