Posted on 08/14/2012 5:33:06 AM PDT by tsowellfan
Gov. Mitt Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate is one of those decisions that seem obvious — if not inevitable — in retrospect, though it was by no means obvious to most of us beforehand.
To get a quick sense of who Ryan is, watch a short video of a February 2010 meeting in which Ryan politely, but devastatingly, "schools" Obama on the fraudulence of the statistics the Obama administration used to claim that ObamaCare would reduce the deficit. That video is available on the Drudge Report.
As a long-time member, and now chairman, of the House Budget Committee, Ryan is thoroughly familiar with both the facts and the fictions in the federal government's budget. In recent years, the fictions have grown much bigger than the facts. But, as Ryan reminded the president, hiding spending is not the same as reducing spending.
If this election is going to be decided on hard facts, the Obama administration is doomed. But the Obama campaign is well aware of that, which is why we are hearing so many distracting innuendoes and outright lies about such peripheral issues as what Romney is supposed to have done while running Bain Capital — or even what is supposed to have happened at Bain Capital, years after Romney was gone...
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A video of former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles began circulating in conservative news outlets today. In the clip, the Democratic co-chair of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform gives high praises to Paul Ryan's budget plan.
"I'm telling you, this guy is amazing. I always thought I was OK with arithmetic. This guy can run circles around me," Bowles tells a class of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"He is honest, he is straightforward, he is sincere. And the budget he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, honest, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit.
And a swell video it is, but Ryan could do nothing to turn Obama from his course. Nor could he do anything to turn a President Romney from his. He’d go in a closet for 4-8 years, coming out as often as one takes out funeral attire.
That’s all Ryan is to Romney — attire.
Unless it’s Romney’s funeral, Ryan will be sidelined, neutralized, laid off, kicked upstairs, pastured, on ice.
Or am I missing some portion of the US Constitution?
What I like about Paul Ryan is that he does not have to be schooled on our economy and financial systems; he is the teacher.
Unlike Obama who has to have someone feed him his talking points via teleprompter, and who does not have the capacity to understand; he just memorizes without that deep, down understanding.
awesome.
forwarding that to my leftist friends.
BTTT
Do you have some basis for comparing Ryan to Cheney? Bush’s selection criteria to Romney’s?
“That’s all Ryan is to Romney — attire.”
I don’t think so. When you pick a Veep candidate you pick a person you will be working with for 4-8 years.
For all of Romney’s many faults, this shows his seriousness and priority of attacking the Spending and 1.2 Trillion annual Budget Deficits.
It also sets a real social and economic conservative up as the Future of the Republican Party and next Presidential frontrunner.
My copy of the Constitution doesn't play that song.
LOL, you may want to read the part about Presidential terms hehehe.
Where in the Constitution does it say the president has to “work with” the vice-president? It’d have to be dated somewhere after Truman.
You’re being silly.
In other words, I’m right. The POTUS does not have any obligation to work with the veep.
By that stellar logic, I can proclaim that Romney was only being a political chameleon in Massachusetts and he will govern as a conservative in the White House.
I bet Romney tapped Ryan because he has intimate knowledge of how the government spends our money.
Romney is a corporate executive and when someone like that takes on a challenge he surrounds himself with the best people to tackle the problem.
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