Paul Ryan, Family Man and proud of it!
And he knows how to write too:
Posted on 08/11/2012 6:01:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Drudge Report singled out political writer Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker as having the unintentionally hilarious first spin on the reported pick of Paul Ryan to be Romney's running mate. Lizza immediately started to "tally the risks."
"For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience," he wrote. He wrote this with zero ackowledgment of Obama's private-sector experience scooping mint-chip at Baskin-Robbins. If the rest of the media follows this line, this is going to be shamelessly biased:
Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.
But that wasn't blind, deaf, and dumb to Obama's resume enough: he also didn't have enough Washington experience:
But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.
And the experience that Ryan does have is not exactly what voters are clamoring for at the moment. The bulk of Ryan’s House career coincided with the Presidency of George W. Bush, during which he was a reliable vote for many Bush policies that have not aged well: Medicare Part D; the Iraq War; and the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Ryan told me that voting for all of that spending, which added trillions to the deficit, made him “miserable,” but he’ll need a better explanation in his October debate with Joe Biden.
Presumably, Romney’s main reason for picking Ryan is not his early deficit-busting record but his more recent rise to celebrity as a crusading policy wonk determined to tame the federal government. Romney, who has been extremely vague about what he would do if elected, will now own Paul Ryan’s ideas, which include privatizing Social Security, turning Medicare into a voucher program, bloc-granting and drastically cutting Medicaid, and reducing discretionary spending to levels that would affect every popular government program. This Ryan agenda will now fill the vacuum created by Romney’s unwillingness to lay out the specifics of his own plan. Even before this (apparent) announcement, Democrats were planning on tying Romney to Ryan’s policy platform. Now Romney has done it for them.
Lizza could only say that Romney deserves credit for turning this into a strong ideological choice for voters -- as if Obama's extremely liberal record hasn't already done that:
Romney’s choice of Ryan will undoubtedly be criticized as capitulation to the right, and this pick does seem to demonstrate that Romney is not able or willing to distance himself from the base of his party. But the good thing about the Ryan pick is that the Presidential campaign will instantly turn into a very clear choice between two distinct ideologies that genuinely reflect the core beliefs of the two parties. And in that sense, Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan is good news for voters.
Barry Obama had sooooooo much experience....izat right? Noooo, Barry is Black - that is his ACE in the hole along with the Anti-Capitalists who want him in power to reduce America to a Third World Nation....not a leader among nations. Obama The Crooked has the lead in the inexperienced politicians....he is more like a bank robber or jewel thief - what Barry really is is, among other things, he is not a leader in any sense of the word.
I'm under no illusions,it's the lesser of two evils, but almost any election boils down to that choice.
It took the socialists about 100 years to get us to this point, and one or even 5 elections won't fix things. Maybe, we're too far gone, but that doesn't mean we sit back let the out and out Marxist in and complain for the next four years. We have to work with what we've got.
Truer words never spoken. God bless Sarah and all her house.
Geez, did this guy even take an English class in high school? Yikes! What does this even mean?
Was that dumped because it was a blog piece or are we now protecting Ryan?
Seriously ~ there's no problem maintaining a drum beat on the faithless Romney and his lackeys, but what's the top end position on Ryan?
How quickly people forget ~ ALL commies are commies. There’s no lesser of two evils when it comes to commies. They are evil all the time.
But never mind, Obama is simply stupid ~ and is further handicapped by his lack of experience and education.
Levin and others who want you to imagine Obama to be a smart guy with an agenda are doing no one any favors ~ and Mark knows it.
Fascist methods have no good elements ~
Some day I hope to see another President who is a smart guy and not a head case. Looks like that won't be all that soon.
Romney's Massachusetts crowd, and Romney himself, seem to be totally oblivious to that fact.
Plus, you have to fire up the Fiscal Conservatives, Religious Conservatives, Social Conservatives, and Cultural Conservatives. Usually one candidate is unable to do all of that. Romney is singularly unprepared to deal with any of those groups, and Ryan has some limitations here.
Romney could easily have made a worse choice ~
We are at the stage where if we don’t fix things pretty radically and fast then socialism is inevitable and because we are the last bastion of liberty when we are socialist we won’t have the world hegemon to defend us and financially cushion our socialist fantasies and the economic results will go from dire to famine in less than a generation, perhaps a lot less. In other words, I suspect we are well past the point of no return. We are probably at the stage that we will be referring to when we turn to our spouses and moan, “ Why didn’t we get out when we still could?” but then, where would we have gone? Switzerland?
Also included in that Middle group are the disenchanted who see no point in voting when the choices stink and the one you settle on as “the lesser of two evils” turns out to be pretty dang evil as well. I am praying that all the negatives I hear about Romney will not come to pass and that he wants a legacy of “Saving America” — surely there are some big wigs out there who do still love their country and don’t want to see the world’s Golden Goose go down the Chute? I can dream...
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