i know. >>> in tonight's rewrite, paul ryan continues to rewrite paul ryan.ngs that paul ryan can no longer say. now that he's mitt romney's running mate. two years ago paul ryan said, correctly, that the cayman islands are quote the place you hide your money. see? paul ryan can be right sometimes. but he can't be right about the cayman islands anymore, thanks to mitt romney. so he just doesn't mention the cayman islands anymore. and a few years ago, paul ryan said this about his favorite philosopher. >> i grew up reading ayn rand and it taught my quite a bet about who i am and what my value systems are and what my believes are. it's inspired my so much that it's required reading in my office for my staff. the reason i got involved in public service if i had to credit one thinker it would be ayn rand. when i had to point out that ayn rand was an atheist, paul ryan was then forced to say this. >> i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. >> which was exactly what we were hoping he would say. in that same speech where paul ryan swore his devotion to

one thing about paul ryan, he passed a budget twice. he did what he had to do. he stepped up to his responsibilities as budget chairman and got a budget passed twice. the president walked away from the debt commission and has never -- >> how about if a ship sank and two people left before it sank and one blamed the other for leaving before it sank? oh, i also left the ship before it sank. just a thought. it's useful information. >> let's talk about the two budgets that ryan passed. they had the very same medicare cuts that paul ryan now criticizes the president for. and while they talk about balancing the budget, which sounds really good and got a lot of applause at the republican convention last night -- hold on one second. they've got a $4.3 billion tax cut that's not paid for. neither is -- >> let's take a look at -- let ryan speak for himself. here he is talking about the failure of obama to support simpson-bowles and his deficit-reduction effort. let's watch. >> he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked th

the answer is more paul ryan. would like to see more of paul ryan not just on the stump at these rallies but doing a lot more media. i also think it would probably work in mitt romney's favor to have paul ryan play a more traditional vp role, which is it should be paul ryan out there on the sunday shows and in the press. >> instead of buchanan, for example? >> i don't mind surrogates. i don't think mitt romney needs to be the one calling out president obama is egypt an ally or not or is israel an ally or not? this should be paul ryan's job. paul ryan should be the one sort of calling out obama, and mitt romney should be running for president. i don't think it's that ryan isn't capable. he is. he's very good at this. so there's a lot of sort of second-guessing as to what the strategy within the campaign is. i talked to a bunch of strategists off the record who had their own takes what's going on here. frankly, as a voter, i don't care. i want to see more of paul ryan. >> there's a reason. the reason actually strate

why did he pick paul ryan for his running mate? certainly not for better or worse. tt spends his days and nights acting as if he's out there all alone, that he never hooked up with ryan in the first place. i get it. romney doesn't want to get dragged down by his political mate's push for getting rid of medicare. he acts like ryan has no hold on him, but it's not the way it works. romney has slowly gotten the word that the voter out there thought the two had things worked out, that romney and ryan were in this thing together. well, they're not. romney is dying. he can't stand being tied to ryan, and all that budget cutting baggage of his. for his part, ryan is feeling the taint of having a running mate who is unwilling to stand with him, unwilling to be his kind of politician. a conviction politician. so trouble in paradise. mitt's dying to be single again, so is ryan. we all know that politics makes strange bedfellows but the word is out this pair, romney and ryan, are sleeping in separate rooms. i'm joined by msnbc political analyst howard fineman and joy ann reid,

they had the very same medicare cuts that paul ryan now criticizes the president for. while they talk about balancing the budget, which sounds really good and got a lot of applause at the republican convention last night -- hold on one second. they've got a $4.3 billion tax cut that's not paid for. neither is -- >> let's take a look at -- let ryan speak for himself. here he is talking about the failure of president obama to support simpson-bowles and his deficit reduction effort. let's watch. >> he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing. >> and what did ryan do? >> he passed his own budget. twice. >> simpson-bowles. >> he voted against it because he didn't like the fact there was no entitlement reforms in there. the fact of the matter when it comes to the medicare charge, yes, they have the same numbers, but they were different types of cuts. what obama has done -- he took the 700 -- >> cutting $700 billion. let's go beyond this because it's clear that ryan's

look, mitt romney did not pick paul ryan because of paul ryan's medicare or budget programs. he picked paul ryan because of his youthfulness, because of the cultural appeal, because of what paul ryan himself calls the deer hunter catholic that he is, okay? that might sell in pennsylvania, but the other stuff won't. and if we're going to be cutting medicare at some point, which i think most voters understand, i think right now looking at these alternatives, they would rather have a democrat they know than a republican from a party that never supported the program to begin with. >> let me go to joy on that. joy-ann, it seems to me that people who once you get into your late 60s, early 70s, into your 80s, you have one primary care, and that's what you're always talking about with your friends, how is your health? how is it going? you're social life in many ways is going to see the doctor. you have to survive, see your kids and grandkids. you don't walk away and say i'd like to cut it but i don't like his health care program. it's pretty hard to separate. >> the most remarkable t

>> we heard a lot about paul ryan because he told us a lot about paul ryan. chris kristi told us a lot about himself. -- chris christie. ryan just seems disingenuous. you get that impression he is playing a role, and he has been playing this role since the time he was a kid. >> if charles was here, he would give you a real one. i did bump into him and mark in florida, as you know. my question was -- how enthusiastic are these delegates about the head of the ticket? >> i think what is really interesting is how at the convention, they have managed to bring together a party with evangelical and the kind of moderates that romney would have represented. i think they have done a good job except for a few of the ron paul-ites. it is a convention that is united by its opposition and open hostility to barack obama. they were going to support whoever was the nominee. mitt romney may have -- may not have been their first choice, but they are falling behind him. i thought chris christie lighted up the place. >> real leaders do not follow polls. real leaders change polls.

i think there are problems marrying paul ryan politically like his positions. isn't that the reason why romney kissed him, said good-bye, i like your name, ryan is cute, but i'm not going to get too close to a guy who wants to basically get rid of medicare, cut medicaid, get rid of pell grants and do all kinds of things to make rich people richer. he doesn't want to get too tight with that thinking, does he? >> no, he doesn't. this is a really banner day for us because it's so rare that liberals and conservatives can agree about anything, as you know, but today we can all say together, yes, please let paul ryan be ryan. please let paul ryan go out -- go to florida and say, i want to turn medicare into a voucher program. let paul ryan go around talking about privatizing social security, which he used to do. let paul ryan say, i want to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest which he does. he's an extremist. the tea party loved him. they were so happy when mitt picked hip but they're now very disappointed. it looked like a rare moment of courage for mitt ro

that's where paul ryan has to be ready and he wasn't ready and that campaign wasn't ready. very basic questions that you have to see coming, since the reaction to ryan's speech the night he gave it. >> lawrence, here's the problem with the lies they keep telling. if i arrived in this country last week, without any prior knowledge of this nation's recent economic history, here's what i'd learn from the republican ticket. that the president abandoned the auto industry, that romney and ryan would never cut medicare, that the president is solely personally responsible for the high deficit and the nation's credit downgrade and that romney and ryan are going to save the safety net. >> yeah. and it becomes the press's obviousligation to deal with th issues the way the republicans have framed them. to actually show the trickery that's going on in that framing and that's what we saw. that's what the matt lauer -- by the way, the think that's striking about matt's interview is, these were all straight ahead predictable questions. that's how easy it is to rip away the framing that pau

paul ryan what he did in his speech i think so stretched the truth and i like paul ryan have a lot of great respect for paul ryan but the now i'm upset he said about closing the g.m. plant which closed before obama took president about the simpson bowles which sensible which he opposed and then i'll finish you both barack obama or at some point the truth should matter of course one of the biggest deceptions of the speech was this one about president obama's reforms to medicare. seven hundred sixteen billion dollars funneled out of medicare by president obama. in an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. the greatest threat to medicare is obamacare and we're going to stop it. none of us are president obama didn't cut a single penny from medicare that would affect a single payer read even just the opposite because seven hundred billion seven hundred sixteen billion dollars in waste fraud and corporate abuse and corporate handouts and that now by taking that out keeps the entire medicare program solv

do you know paul ryan? >> yes, very well. >> jon: now he is considered if i am not mistaken, and i am using just a nic nickname, the brainiac. >> he is the intel beck chul soul of the republican party. >> there is a lot of gravitation to him, his boldness to put a plan in writing on the table which he knew would be, you know, advice rated and taken apart, and interestingly must have not just by the left but also by the right, because folks forget -- newt gingrich showed it right wing social engineering. >> you have that and before that you have the leadership when confronted with the plan and asked about it say that is not our plan. so he knew full well what the risk would be but he was willing to take it and so my argument to him was do it now let's talk about it. >> jon: were you surprised last night when he gave a speech that was devoid of those kinds of policies and boldness and included for a guy with a reputation of being from what everybody says a straight shooter, a guy of hard truths that played so

brothers, let's illuminate paul ryan into office, okay. it's that easy paul. just check yourself before you wreck yourself. ors my sense sivment would say, cobra >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is a conservative columnist who has advice about how the republicans can win the working class aside from tipping them more. please welcome righ right rye-h. [crowd cheering] you are contributing editor for the national review. you're also a cnn contributor. you are what ethnologists call a moderate how can, true. >> i'm a temperamentally modern republican. >> stephen: temperamentally moderate. >> i try to be helpful and constructive. i vex tremely right wing views. >> stephen: you mean mainstream american views. >> exactly. with a capital m and a capital a. >> stephen: you saw paul ryan's speech down in tampa. >> i did. >> stephen: he got hammered by fact checkers out there who say the plant was closed in 2008, he voted against simple -- simpson bowls. what do you make of the fetish his enemies say whether or not it was accurate. >> i think it's a

that paul ryan laid out in the speech for us. a lot of guys i went to high school with worked at that g.m. plant. right there at that plant candidate obama said i believe that if our government is there to support you this plant will be here for another hundred years. that's what he said in two thousand and eight. well as it turned out. that plant didn't last another year it was locked up and empty to this day. and that's how it is in so many towns. where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight. so the recovery that obama was supposed to bring us didn't happen and that factory got closed down and i don't think anybody in the audience thought he was condemning george w. bush but take a look at this picture and we're going to put the picture. oh it's full. this is the last vehicle off the janesville assembly line and it's being donated to the . in the cube ok i donated to the united way of north rock county december twenty third two thousand and eight this was a plant that was closed during the presidency of george w. bu

i think it's disingenuous for the republicans to blame it all on obama. >> jessica, we also saw paul ryan there with clicker in hand, he was giving what sounded, appeared to be a fairly detailed explanation about some of the numbers. one of the chief criticisms of the romney-ryan ticket heretofore has been they don't give us a lot of details. do you think what we just saw there was the beginning of a romney-ryan 2.0 campaign? >> i think just these past two weeks they've had to retool. you've seen romney dipping in polls in crucial swing states, o oh ohio, florida even. i think they've got to do this. i think early on maybe they could run just as we're not obama and running on the economy and obama's had four years, give us a chance. but right now, i think voters have certainly tuned in after the convention. obama had a very convincing convention speech and got him a bump that romney didn't get. right now, they have to have some sort of, well, vote for us instead of obama and here's why you should vote for us. they have to get into specifics especially on the economy that remains the numbe

on the day that paul ryan returned to capitol hill. congressman ryan will return to his quiet life as a rabble-rousing republican congressman who never gets any of his bills signed into law. today on his way to becoming the next losing vice presidential candidate who will never be president, he returned to congress where he learned that the federal reverse chairman ben bernanke is starting a new stimulus program in which the fed will buy bonds to stimulate the economy. that was political bad news for romney/ryan but good news for the rest of the country and especially welcome news for the stock market. today, the dow soared to close above 13,500, its highest close since the start of the recession five years ago. obviously its highest close of the obama presidency. mitt romney who gets richer every day that the stock market goes up was not happy to see the stock market rally today on president obama's watch. >> what bernanke's doing is saying that what the president's saying is wrong. the president's saying the economy is making progres

and then, there's that other value paul ryan lied about. republicans love to call traditional marriage. which, of course, is not a value at all. marriage is a living arrangement. marriage is a legal agreement. marriage can be a religion-based definition of a relationship. please note that i did not say a religion-based definition between two people. because religion has always allowed, and still allows, for marriages between one man and more than one woman at the same time. in fact, throughout most of human history, the most traditional, which is to say the most popular form of marriage has been between one man and many women at the same time. and throughout human history, the other most traditional component of marriage is that it was arranged. not by the two people who marry, but by the parents of the two people who marry. this thing that mitt romney and paul ryan call traditional marriage, the marriage that is a union between only one man and only one woman and not arranged by their parents, is a tradition that is not as old as the feder

that began with choosing of paul ryan. you have paul ryan on earlier.lutely terrific. when you brought him on or when mitt romney brought him ons he had to defend paul ryan's budget. they spent half their days defending the budget of paul ryan in florida, in is have, in ohio, and the other battleground states. my suggestion to mitt romney is, do what ronald reagan did. go around the media. buy air time in florida. buy air time in virginia. buy air time in ohio and dress -- and address those states and show leadership. >>neil: thank you. it keeps tabs on them, why are they keeping tabs on him? sheriff joe keeps tabs on them and wants every move. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing a stunning work of technology. introducing the entirely new lexus es. and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. . [ owner ] i need to expand to meet the needs of my growing business. but how am i going to fund it? and i have to find a way to manage my cash flow better. [ female announcer ] our wells fargo bankers are here to listen, offer guidance and provid

. >> sean: let's take a look at paul ryan's speech. two of the other best speech, paul ryan and marco rubio did particularly well and we gallon over clint eastwood's speech. in this country, we don't have to settle for what we have going on right now. >> when i was waiting tables, washing ditious or mowing lawns for money, i never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. i was on my own path. my own journey, an american journey, where i could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. that's what we do in this country. that's the american dream! that's freedom. and i'll take it any day over the supervision and the sarchght sarchght -- over the sanctimony of the central planners. >> sean: have you dialed me on occasion. i have not hit those numbers. >> sean, sean, sometimes do you well. but not often do do you that well. that would be in the top 3% of all clips we have tested. im going to tell the viewers something which may surprise them. paul ryan dialed better than mitt romney among independent voter

. >> sean: let's take a look at paul ryan's speech. two of the other best speech, paul ryan and marco rubio did particularly well and we gallon over clint eastwood's speech. in this country, we don't have to settle for what we have going on right now. >> when i was waiting tables, washing ditious or mowing lawns for money, i never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. i was on my own path. my own journey, an american journey, where i could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. that's what we do in this country. that's the american dream! that's freedom. and i'll take it any day over the supervision and the sarchght sarchght -- over the sanctimony of the central planners. >> sean: have you dialed me on occasion. i have not hit those numbers. >> sean, sean, sometimes do you well. but not often do do you that well. that would be in the top 3% of all clips we have tested. im going to tell the viewers something which may surprise them. paul ryan dialed better than mitt romney among independent voter

and i have met paul ryan. he is likable. i think he is probably a very smart choice for mitt romney but in terms of the speech he gave this week that point is absolutely not clear. if you are a member of the american public sitting back watching this, when you are in the hall or watching on television or listening to it on the radio, you are hearing his words and they absolutely make economic sense. however, if you are a woman, if you are african-american, if you are hispanic, if you are anything that is other, meaning nonwhite male, you sit back and say how do you compare and contrast what they are saying on the economy which makes absolutely sense but then there are much louder voices in the republican party that make you feel unwelcome and there is no longer your country. that is a problem for the republican party. >> this economy is in terrible shape, let's face it the worst shape since the great depression. >> i agree completely. >> the american dream used to be a home in the suburbs. today the american dream is a secur

this was vice-president biden praising paul ryan. >> the paul ryan budget -- paul ryan is a decent, honorablemart guy. i do not want to hear democrats talking about, he is a bad guy. he really thinks for the way for america to own the 21st century is the prescription he has laid out. every republican in the congress obviously thinks so as well. >> why did you pick that? >> i put that video online because i thought it is important for people to know that politics -- there is this demonization that comes about. whether it is from the candidate or the super pac, people demonize the other side. whether they're doing it openly or behind the scenes. with videos like that, it is important for people to know that the other side, they do not necessarily think these people are bad people. >> what do you think of politicians? >> that is a tough question. i do not know. it is tough to tell. some of them are really politicians in the sense that they will shift their views which ever way the wind goes. with someone like mitt romney, who is almost a market-based politician, he changes his views to fit what