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 ...
For those reading the entire article, it is worth noting the comment about the reaction to Ryan from “The Chicago Tribune.”
David Axelrod formerly worked at the Tribune before he left to become a political campaign consultant. He has plenty of access at the Tribune Tower and has planted numerous stories there over the years. The attacks against Blair Hull and Jack Ryan (two of Obama’s US Senate opponents) were initiated at the Tribune.
In its prime, “The Chicago Tribune” was a conservative Republican sheet. Now, it is a liberal rag that is a big part of the problem in Illinois.
Well we obviously must run in different circles because outside FR, everybody I run into (that isn’t a hopeless Democrat) is okay with Romney/Ryan. Maybe not thrilled but okay. We all wish for another Ronald Reagan but we can’t be Linus in the pumpkin patch, just sitting around waiting for his return. We have to make the best of what we have before us. If Reagan II was on the ballot, I’d definitely vote for him over Romney but that’s not going to happen this go-around.
That tells me I wouldn't be surprised that within two weeks the Romney/Ryan campaign will announce the most radical overhaul of the income tax code since the passage of the 16th Amendment. And that right there will be the final coffin for the Obama campaign, because you know Obama would never support such a radical, but very common sense, income tax overhaul.
I’d be happy with anyone who is not pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage/adoption, anti-gun......and who has enough intregrity not to cheat. I don’t think that is asking for a lot.
So True!!!! Flip the ticket!!!
He can out talk them and influence people, that’s why.
And Obaama has spent $100 million trashing Romney, while Romney hasn't begun with the ads.
And still Romney is slightly in the lead.
With an economy in the crapper, no foreign policy except surrender, the Middle East and the Euro about to melt down, which always inspires the people's willingness to trust an Affirmative Action Marxist placeholder over real Americans who sure as hell "*did* build that."
Sell your bedwetting somewhere else.
Cheers!
This, mind you, was par for the course as liberals of the day dealt with Ronald Reagan. As one liberal media critic wrote in the day, the battle was between "FDR versus Darwin" -- almost exactly the lame line being advanced today by Obama and company.FDR versus Darwin??? That media critic all-but sent out an engraved invitation for this snark:
Some time ago, Gary North wrote a book entitled Conspiracy In Philadelphia. My own political beliefs are far removed from Dr. North's brand of Christian Reconstructionism, but his book makes some important and neglected points. To wit:
a) The Constitution was essentially Deist;
b) Its philosophical backbone was Newtonian mechanics.
Once Darwinism replaced Newtonism as the thinking man's status-symbol system, the Constitution began eroding. The philosophical backbone behind Roosevelt's "living Constitution" is 100% Darwinism.
The addition of Ryan has solidified the base and while there will always be those who disagree, Romney has done what was needed to bring home the Conservative voter.
Good post. I believe that those who are now "anybody-but-Romney" folks, and say they support Ryan, but still won't vote for Romney, would not vote for Ryan even if Romney was second fiddle on the ticket because ...Romney was on the ticket.
FR used to be a place when many savvy folks would display rational thought and the ability to identify and rank enemies of Freedom - then go after the greatest threat first. These days they go after the guy who they don't consider to be Christian and pave the way for the guy that seems to already carry Satan's mark. JR has a tagline saying something about opposing tyrants is obedience to God. In the Bible I read, Jesus said "resist not evil" and I'm assuming it's because it is His job. I'm voting for the crew that is most likely to give America some breathing room as a nation.
Exactly. Liberal governance has been exposed as dowright dangerous to all we hold dear. Liberalism has always been a house of cards, and Obama, by taking it from feel-good platitudes to actual practice has shaken its very foundation.
I don't think we'll ever be thankful that Obama came along to demonstrate that liberal governance is wrong for America-it's been so painful we won't want to think about it-but the Democratic Party will surely rue the day they embraced the Obama-Reid-Pelosi brand.
As election day draws nearer, and the enemy rats are smelling defeat at every level, the odds of a “postponed election” grow greater.
Personally, I would put the odds at about 60/40 that a “serious national crisis” will be proclaimed and the election “postponed.”
If Ryan was at the top of the ticket, there is no way he would have selected Romney as a running mate.If Ryan was at the top of the ticket, we would be kicking Obama’s behind. If we want to win, flip the ticket.
. . . unless of course, like Reagan's pick of GHWB, he thought it politically prudent to do so in order to win the election.
And, just like the Israelites in the book of judges, we’ll be living well and prosperously, forget what (Who) got us here, and fall back again into decadence and slavery.
Agreed... Additionally, I always wonder WHY IS THERE EVER A “MIDDLE??”
When one thinks about the vast philosophical differences between Obama and Ryan/Romney, I just don’t get why there are people that are “undecided.”
Don’t these middle voters have core values that would place them clearly in either/or camp, but not the middle. They must not be paying attention.
And, No, I don’t buy the hogwash that Romney = Obama. Look at the stellar VP pick he chose who is NOT a RINO!
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