Ryan didn’t really get burned except in the sense that republicans are horrible at selling even the most modest reform proposals when it comes to entitlement programs and so many of them line up to be against a la Scott Brown. The Boomers are a problem, not a case for keeping Medicare given that there will be 80 million of them and Medicare will be costing over a trillion dollars per year! Even if we don’t reform it at all or any of these programs...it is clear that the American economy and the debt will soon put an end to all of it.
Maybe it is too far gone to “save”. I think so. We may have to let the Rats collapse the whole economy before people wake up.
Why can’t the Republicans hire a good public relations firm to show them how to get their message out? The Dems are very good at staying on message by appealing to people’s emotions. The Republicans, on the other hand, sometimes sound like they are at a business meeting pointing to their graphs and charts. They come across as cold fish. Republicans have to learn how to sell their message. It is not only about telling the truth but telling it in a way that most people will understand and believe. The Dems are very crafty and underhanded, liars are often more believable than people who speak the truth. It is unfortunate but it is true. The Republicans have to get their act together message-wise.