Posted on 08/16/2012 5:53:15 PM PDT by Dysart
Paul Ryan terrifies the American Left.
Which precisely explains the tones of hysteria coming from the Obama White House.
The real question is why the Chicago Thugs have suffered such a public meltdown over Mitt Romney's choice of the young Wisconsin Congressman to be his vice-presidential running mate.
And there is an answer. Three specific answers, actually.
• Ronald Reagan: President Reagan today is an American hero. Poll after poll has Americans placing him in the pantheon of great American presidents, and occasionally at the top of the list.
The admiration for Reagan has become such a part of American historical bedrock that even President Obama and likeminded professional leftists have essentially given up the ghost. When they mention Reagan at all, it is generally to play a sly game of casting Reagan as a moderate, pretending to salute him while taking a shot at some Republican for not being more like Reagan. Obama played this game four times in one speech back in April, effusively praising Reagan while casting Mitt Romney as some sort of wild-eyed extremist.
No one is fooled.
Ronald Reagan was and remains the Left's worst nightmare.
Why?
Because it was Ronald Reagan who both understood conservative philosophy and was repeatedly turning it into effective policy. It was Reagan who began the massive historical deconstruction of a century's worth of the Left's ideas on everything from economics to national security -- repeatedly proving them as unworkable as they were dangerous. Not to mention that he trounced Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and, through his vice president in 1988, Michael Dukakis. Three consecutive political landslides in which Reagan so changed America that by 1992 Bill Clinton ran as a "New Democrat" -- essentially portraying himself as Reagan-lite.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
So-called "progressives" understand the "divided" part of Madison's cautionary words, but the rest of us seem to ignore the rest of Madison's statement.
Might it have something to do with our not having been "well-instructed" in the ideas of freedom?
I ran across a poll today revealing that some 60-70% of them asked gave Obama high marks on education. Isn't that ironic, sad? To be fair, though, and I'm always fair to him, that problem has its origins decades before his reign.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. From here, 16 years of Republican presidents. And the irony that Obama — by his manifest failures — will have ushered in a new conservative renaissance.
it's not hard to figure out, real men always do...
You know...I just heard it again. “If you vote for Romney and Ryan, people are gonna die in the United States.”
Well, frikkin’ duh. I would be extremely surprised if people STOPPED dying in the United States. People in Canada and every other country in the world are gonna die because that’s a fact of life.
What we DON’T need is people being murdered by the hundreds, thousands, and millions because obama supports the holocaust of innocent unborns no matter where or when.
What we DON’T need are oscama-backed muslims murdering hundreds and thousands of people who don’t howl at the crescent moon.
What we DON’T need is a panel of obamacare leftist toadies deciding whether you deserve to live or die.
ET CETERA, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
“Nope. Perfect as is. “
Agreed. I also would have rather had Cheney for pres instead of Bush.... I always thought Cheney was more intelligent and articulate. I think Ryan like Cheney will do the heavy lifting for the conservatives while Romney will provide political leadership and administrative smarts.
The best part here is that we have a “real” conservative, that is smart and articulate, primed for President that is young and doesn’t have a bad ticker.
Hopefully the Republicans will effect real change this time, and drive us to prosperity and ignore the wacko media.
Remember the dems’ claims to be “licking their chops” at the prospect of a Ryan selection for VP? They were hoping Romney would be cowed into selecting some space occupier like Rob Portman (whom they’d savage anyway). Fortunately, Romney called their bluff with the selection of the highly intelligent Ryan, who is goading them into the open in a debate about Medicare and the budget...something the libs fear even more than losing access to online porn.
...and now the dems are sh*tting all over themselves wondering what to do, thus the claim by that Toure punkass of “niggerization” of obama (whatever that happens to mean) by Romney.
Excellent article, Dysart. I read it last night and it struck a few chords with me. Despite the extreme pessimism of some Freepers who still haven’t come to terms with Romney’s pending nomination, I fully expect a Romney-Ryan landslide in November. I also expect a wave of Democrat defections when Obama’s defeat becomes obvious, but I was stunned to see Doug Wilder become the first one today - and it’s only August!
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LOL - Thanks for posting this - Sarah will be pleased she's 'grown'...
Lots of people are afraid of telling pollsters the truth. So many of those ‘pollsters’ are from the party -doing push/pull type polling - and they’re gonna ‘get you’ if you’re a dem and you answer wrong. Gotta love the party of intimidation. My guess is a lot more people will vote Republican than will say they vote Republican.
Romney is accustomed to delegating heavily and very comfortable with it. I don't expect that to change, so let's look forward to Ryan having a major role, even if it's behind the scenes. He's too energetic and valuable to conservative and free market ideals to not be fully leveraged.
You betcha. I liked that, too.
That concept was explicitly played by the Clinton Administration in regards Gore and his idiocy...though there is now a horde that has forgotten and follows Gore as though he is some sort of sage.
Damn fine ideA Linda
Damn fine
So people can preen and strut about this board stating that they aren't going to vote for Romney no way no how and I say let them be loud and proud about it. But the majority of these folks are going to quietly pull the lever for Romney once they get behind that curtain. That's okay, they don't have to admit it here.
The fight is always for the squishy middle - about 15-20% of the vote and in presidential contests, the fight comes down to a handful of battleground states like Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa and a few others. The results in 35-40 of our states are pretty much determined already.
As for things like murders, it took many more years of war in two countries to equate to the cost in lives of electing Dinkins as the Mayor of NYC.
I will not vote for Romney if he is the top of the ticket, but at least I am voting the rest of the ballot. A lot of these people are so disgusted with the gops hard left move and the cheating going on in the primary, they have become disillusioned and say they are not voting at all and that both parties are corrupt. The gop has finally pushed people too far.
The thought of romney having 8 years re-enforces my choice not to vote for him. I'm changing to independent because the gop has become so corrupt. Sometimes I wish I had not gotten so involved in the details of the campaigns, then I would be clueless like everyone else. This election is just like McCain/Palin, only this time many conservatives have had enough of the gop. You think they would have learned. Cheaters never win and we will all suffer for it. It's common knowledge that it was Romney who had his people destroy Sarah in 2008. If Romney had not done that, I think McCain would be in office, but Romney knew he could not run in 2012 if McCain/Sarah won. It was all about him.
I worked the Santorum campaign & I believe he would have won if it wasn't for the cheating, fixing states...and Romney's money, but only God knows for sure. That is one of the reasons the gop pushed him. Romney had to cheat in several states to get where he is. That is just like Obama. I won't have any part in electing someone who does what he did to win. Besides that, to me he is no different than Obama. Pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage/adoption, believes in global warming.....Evil.
You have no way of knowing what would have happened if someone else won the primary, just like the rest of us.
Many conservatives don’t take IOU’s. When they see there is cheating going on on the table, they leave, just like many have and are.
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