It's official as of this morning. Mitt selects one of the modern political world's most formidable champions of freedom, Paul Ryan.
Maybe Mitt read Charles Krauthammer's great NRO piece yesterday saying that there are two ways to run against the MEC - either focus on the stewardship angle, that is, hammer home the numbers on unemployment and the debt and deficit, thereby painting the MEC as a failure at what a president ought to do, or go the ideological route, that is, stress loudly and repeatedly that the current morass is a direct result of who the MEC is. Krauthammer says to go the latter route.
The MEC and the FHers will be helpful in making the iedological case for us with the inevitable howling about the supposed injustice of Ryan's vision for restoring fiscal sanity.
"We will help care for those who cannot care for themselves, and we will return work to welfare. As poverty has risen to historic and tragic levels, with nearly one out of six Americans now having fallen into poverty, we will act to bring these families into the middle class. Unlike the current president who has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion, we will preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security. Under the current president, healthcare has only become more expensive. We will reform healthcare so that more Americans have access to affordable healthcare, and we will get that started by repealing and replacing Obamacare." --Mitt Romney introducing Rep. Paul Ryan as his VP choice, 8/11/12
ReplyDeleteThat's our Paul!
ReplyDeleteGotta love him, like the benovolent boss who says he's protecting your job by cutting your pay and bennies. Same sheep, different shepherd. Baah!!!
ReplyDeleteThat was Mitt introducing Paul. Oh yes, must be a good Caztholic and Mitt mentioned that. Biden? Bad Catholic. Me? Oh well, why didn't you tell me that Obama has cut 700 Bil from that socialist healthcare insurance plan we call Medicare? I am going to be all ears on what they are going to do about that. If they eliminated all that pricey end of life stuff for critical and terminally ill elders it would be a good start towards putting it in the black. Do you admit the free market has no use for seniors?
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, good to see you of good cheer today. The American voters will chhos their Commander in Chief for the next 4 years soon. May God allow the best man to win.
As for the inevitable howling from those not in your camp, can't you hear your own howls from Day 1 of Obama's administration on unto today? You are right. Right wing, not necessarily correct on everything. But, since you love to wage war and characterize all your struggles as war, well, let's roll....
ReplyDeleteYou bet. We've been howling, growling, shreiking and roaring. We knew at least a good year before the 2008 campaign season began in earnest what that revolutionary socialist was all about.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Bush Cheney should have done a better job. Hell, Cheney didn't even begin to try to run but he sure runs his mouth now, when he is not in the hospital. I know he has got to be itching for more preemption. I hear Obama leads by 9 points in most polls. One poll recently found that americans trust Obama on foreign policy and Rpomney on the economy. I think they're both full of bull. Not a Demo anymore, but never ever a Republican. I am hearing that Paul Ryan might at heart be much more of a reasonable gentleman thay you can abide.
ReplyDeleteIn high school, Paul Ryan's classmates voted him as his class's "biggest 'brown noser.'" This tidbit will likely delight the political opponents of the Wisconsin representative-turned-Romney-running mate; his supporters will likely see this small fact of Ryan's life as an irrelevant piece of youthful trivia.
ReplyDeleteAnd that tension will likely play out, repeatedly, upon the most definitive narrative we have about Paul Ryan as a person and politician and policy-maker: his Wikipedia page. Late last night, as news of the Ryan choice leaked in the political press, Politico notes, the first substantial edit to that page removed an extant "brown noser" mention:
From: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-ryan-brown-noser-wikipedia-131308008.html
Barack Obama is a revolutionary socialist without a patriotic bone in his body. He thinks of America as having been too big for its britches throughout its history and in need of being taken down a peg and made just another member of the "international community." He holds indivicual ambition and enterprise in utter contempt and wants the government to control all economic activity, or at least as much as is possible to achieve. His mentors and associates over the years have included Frank Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Jeremiah Wright, Heather Booth, Greg Galluzzo, Harry Boyte, and Bill Ayers.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mitt Romney believes Jesus appeared here to the Indians who are, along with the white man, the good angels. The negro is the offspring of Satan. That explains it all, doesn't it? Methinks you protesteth too much and Mitt panteth after the prize like a wild buck.
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