Gillespie on State of the Union: “the campaign of hope and change of 2011 has diminished to the campaign of fear and smear in 2012”

Today on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, senior adviser for the Romney campaign Ed Gillespie spoke about the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate. A full transcript may be found here.
Ed Gillespie on CNN’s State of the Union: “If the Ryan budget had come to [Romney’s] desk as president, he would have signed it, of course.”