i'm paul gigot. republican presidential nominee mitt romney bringing down the house with that line in tampa thursday night. there's no question it was the most important speech of his career, how did he do and what did it tell about the campaign to come. let's welcome the wall street journal columnist, dan henninger, dorothy rabinowitz, kim strassel. dan one of the main goals of the convention to improve the image of mitt romney with independent voters, undecided voters. did they accomplish that? >> they most personal accomplished that, they have proven, i think, with all of the testimonials from people that mitt romney is a good person, a great guy, and even a caring businessman. now, this is a political event. so, why did they spend so much time doing that? they did that because the obama campaign and democratic surrogates had spent the previous four months. >> paul: and 100 million dollars. >> 100 million dollars worth of tv commercials saying precisely the opposite. the romney campaign has brough

>> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. you'll eyes were on ohio this week as they both hit the buckeye state hard. hoping to put 18 electoral votes in their col >> paul: politics poll real lot of attention to polls because it depends on what they take and the sample. these guys have been in ohio and they should start paying income tax. this thing is as close can be they both wouldn't be here. i expect this to go down to the wire. we are always a swing state. it will be very close. >> paul: so the democrats are saying one of big things that is helping the spent the auto bailout. is that how you lead to to help the president? >> look, we're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. we're actually according to the bureau of labor statistics down 500 jobs, auto jobs in ohio. the situation. chrysler has expanded and ford and gm have shrunk their footprint but we stabilizing. auto industry out here. of the 123,000 jobs, most of them, biggest categories are business services and healthcare. we are having specialty ma

>> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. you'll eyes were on ohio this week as they both hit the buckeye state hard. hoping to put 18 electoral votes in their column. real clear politics poll average shows his poll leading there. ohio governor john kasich is on the show and welcome. the polls show that mitt romney is trailing. how do you explain that and is that true. >> you know, paul i don't pay a lot of attention to polls because it depends on what they take and the sample. these guys have been in ohio and they should start paying income tax. this thing is as close can be they both wouldn't be here. i expect this to go down to the wire. we are always a swing state. it will be very close. >> paul: so the democrats are saying one of big things that is helping the spent the auto bailout. is that how you lead to to help the president? >> look, we're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. we're actually according to the bureau of labor statistics down 500 jobs, auto jobs in ohio. the situation. chrysler has exp

>> what's wrong with that, paul, the students there now are going to suffer in the interim. if you look at this, you basically have-- this is a civil rights issue, under 60% of chicago students are graduating from high school and in the really bad neighborhoods, it's even worse than that. so, those students are being failed right now and that's not something that can necessarily wait. they had a chance here, i think, to fight a little bit harder, but they didn't for, i think, partially political reasons. >> and the political reason was because there's an election coming and a showdown would not be very good politics? >> election coming and this is obama's hometown and the democrats facing off with the unions and isn't a story that anyone really wants to talk about here, so, i think that was a large part of it. >> david, you met with rahm emanuel a week before the strike was settled and you wrote that he had a pretty calm, cool attitude toward this, a guy who is not necessarily known for political cool. he can get pretty combative. you, what's your take on the outcome? >> wel

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>> i want answers. >> paul: so, what about. >> not to put too fine a point on it, paul. i thought the ad was ridiculous. the first thing what he said was what we need is a stronger trade policy, that's the issue foremost in the minds of voters trying to decide which one to vote for? secondly, the deficit, a balanced budget something kind of conservative hobby horse, it really is not resonating. and thirdly, why does he think that these sound bites, the trade, the deficit, small business, are going to turn voters in his direction? those are simply kind of platitudes with no substance beneath them. and if he's going to just do that for the next five weeks, i think he's going to be in big trouble. >> paul: james? >> okay. and for this, it was a bit vague, i didn't like the trade stuff. operate other hand you had a message of smaller government and a message of tax and regulatory relief to small businesses is often much bigger deal than taxes. it's unknown, difficult to deal with and time consuming, but to get more are those points compelling for middle class voters, obama h

that is where the battleground. >> paul: we have to take one more break. more break. when we come back hits an [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. align naturally helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you today? ♪ try align today. >>. >> paul: for hits and misses of the week. >> here a hit to the n.f.l. and referees for striking a reasonable labor deal this week. n.f.l. got a chance to move to 401-k plan and got more flex wnilt hiring. referees got a pay increase. >> paul: they may give the packers compensatory rules. >> i wanted a miss to the todd aikens who missed the deadline to drop out race. he tarnished not only himself but the entire republican party with his bizarre comments on what he called legitimate rape. but the crew is standing by their man. i think they may come to regret that decision but the democrats sure won't. >> this is hit for chick fill lay. an aldeman he intimidated to stop their donations to groups that politicians don't like. the c

. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you. how effective was the president's case for reelection? >> i don't think it was very effective. i thought was a pretty-- a performance last night typical liberal change, shared responsibility, but i think it was more significant for what he didn't talk about, paul. obamacare, not a lot on jobs, not a lot on the stimulus. these are that defined his presidency and not using them to make the case for his reelection. >> paul: he didn't defend some of the core programs in an elaborate way for his first term. what is the ca

i know. >>> in tonight's rewrite, paul ryan continues to rewrite paul ryan. on the many things 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

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

i'm paul gigot. anti-american protests spread across the arab world this week over a film in defense of islam and the prophet muhammad following the murder thursday of four american diplomates. including united states ambassador chris stevens in benghazi, libya, in what officials believe was a terrorist attack designed to coincide with the anniversary of september 11th. and joining us dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and, with the anti-american protests across the arab world this week, tell us about our standing in that part of the world, and the ferment in arabia? >> well, i think, paul, what's happening here is where essentially we came in when the arab spring began in egy egypt, tunisia and spread to other countries and the feeling at that time that came out the united states couldn't really support any of these movements in the arab spring because quote unquote, we don't know who these people are, which is to say that the united states, and including the state department, just was not that e

he was rand paul's campaign manager during his 2010 senate run and then he was ron paul's campaign manager during his 2012 presidential run. so this is a guy who has been as anti-establishment, and as pro-paul as any republican in the country. in fact, for rand paul, the son, to get to the senate, he first had to win a primary against mitch mcconnell's hand-picked candidate in kentucky. it was the true believer conservative outsiders against that entrenched washington establishment. now one of the truest of the true believers is moving into a key position on mcconnell's campaign. but in some ways the move shouldn't be too much of a surprise. to a degree people i think really don't appreciate, ron paul's dramatically changed the face of the republican party. not on everything, of course. his attitudes on foreign policy and on the drug war haven't gotten him very far. but his positions on the size of government and in particular on monetary policy on the fed have basically won. i mean, the last book ron paul wrote, the thing he really wanted people to know about him before he ran for preside

the answer is more paul ryan. i 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 stra

i think he means him and paul ryan. if that means by a deregulation, reducing my tax burden or reduce the tax code but do not help with a handout. government does not need help any more. john: many audience members liked the speech and were inspired and last the -- walesa nicole them us. mark? >> wish to take power away from washington d.c. back to the people. i heard the a centralizing decision-making at changing needs to be from the sell as. john: i believe they are small government and guys her fell but you can barely hear it. without specifics should i believe it? >> and last night paul ryan's speech had very good rhetoric but then if you look at the substance of his record for mitt romney, it is not about cutting government regulations but boating for things like the t.a.r.p bill, no child left behind, . john: the patriot act. he has changed and grown. john: i want to believe that. my romney says i can create 12 million jobs. how does he? >> i don't want government creating any more jobs. [applause] there are a lot

. >> paul: mitt romney's failure to get specific about his economic policies does seem to be taking its toll. a new fox news poll has the two candidates tied at 46% when it comes to which candidates trust more coming to create jobs. it gave romney a 7 point edge. on tax policy president leads romney 48 to 45. and on that month. 44-40%. so, dan, you mentioned the tax reform debate and the president's attacks on romney's tax plan. we've got to add that the obama campaign is releasing this week, let's look at it. >> and won't reveal what's in his taxes and he won't tell you what he'd do to yours. to pay for huge new tax breaks for millionaires like him, romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class, $2,000 for a family with children says a nonpartisan report. you could lose the deduction for your home mortgage, college tuition, health care, how much would you pay? romney just won't say. . >> paul: all right, dan, first of all, let's just say that the use of the wall street journal in that ad was not sanctioned by this newspaper and we don't want to be associated at all with this arg

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

. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you. how effective was the president's case for reelection? >> i don't think it was very effective. i thought was a pretty-- a performance last night typical liberal change, shared responsibility, but i think it was more significant for what he didn't talk about, paul. obamacare, not a lot on jobs, not a lot on the stimulus. these are that defined his presidency and not using them to make the case for his reelection. >> paul: he didn't defend some of the core programs in an elaborate way for his first term. what is the ca

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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 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 rya

>> 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'm paul gigot. we hope to see you right here next week. >> judge jeanine: this week the obama administration makes a u turn. the murder of our ambassador and three others no longer the result of a spontaneous protest for which they had no actionable intelligence. now, it is a terrorist attack and they knew it within 24 hours. welcome to "justice." i'm judge jeanine pirr outfield. i love the movies, a chance to get away from reality. check out the movie wag the

i'm paul gigot. anti-american protests spread across the arab world this week over a film in defense of islam and the prophet muhammad following the murder thursday of four american diplomates. including united states ambassador chris stevens in benghazi, libya, in what officials believe was a terrorist attack designed to coincide with the anniversary of september 11th. and joining us dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and, with the anti-american protests across the arab world this week, tell us about our standing in that part of the world, and the ferment in arabia? >> well, i think, paul, what's happening here is where essentially we came in when the arab spring began in egy egypt, tunisia and spread to other countries and the feeling at that time that came out the united states couldn't really support any of these movements in the arab spring because quote unquote, we don't know who these people are, which is to say that the united states, and including the state department, just was not that e

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

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'

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

what did you do, paul ryan, to save that plant? you saw it when they put up the notice saying they were going to close it down. it was a republican president in office when that happened. what did you do with that republican president? what did you do with your republican leadership? what bill did you write? what did you try to push? >> lawrence, we -- >> to save that plant. >> we know what mitt romney did. he did nothing. he did zero. >> but it's really, martin, all the more pointed, this is a real congressman, representing his district actively, when he sees that plant heading toward closure, a real congressman goes to work in all sorts of ways that washington has to try to do something to intervene. he did absolutely nothing. while in office to intervene. mitt romney wasn't in office, he had no responsibility that he could possibly point to other than writing a wall street journal op-ed piece saying let it die, let all these plants die, but paul ryan who wants to exploit it now, exploit that image of friends of his from high sch

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

the paul ryan budget is about ideology -- >> keith boykin, paul ryan's the big star with the republicans on capitol hill today. but if chuck schumer's right and he comes back in january as just another member of the house of representatives, it's going to be a very different welcome for him then. >> yeah. i don't think he's going to be too welcome in january when he comes back. here's a guy who's basically running against congress even though he's been in congress for virtually his entire life either as a staffer or as a member of congress. and chuck schumer's right, his budget does not balance. it doesn't do anything except to cut programs for the poor and the middle class and the needy and give more to the wealthy. it's reaganomicc again on steroids. the republicans are actually in the position now of rooting against the economy. they're basically trying to sabotage the economy. they don't want monetary help, don't want the fed to do anything. they don't like ben bernanke. they don't want to do anything to try to inject new money into the economy. and they don't want to do it with a ho