Let's get real here folks. Jack Ryan supports free markets, an individuals right to self defense in his own home with a handgun; notwithstanding any tyrannical local laws to the contrary, lower income taxes, general support for the war on terror to include the Iraq reconstruction, education vouchers, not allowing birthing baby's skulls to be cracked and their brains sucked out, and an end to racial preferences in affirmative action. I can't speak for the rest of you, but I will support this guy even if he doesn't get out of the race, since Obama is a polar opposite on all of these issues. It is my hope that this contretemps will lead in a roundabout way to a discussion of the issues, since his opponents extreme liberalism is DEFINITELY flying under the radar.
True, this development does not help Ryan's campaign, and does reflect poorly on his judgment. If he intended to stay in the race he should have released this material when it first became obvious that its release was an inevitability. He could then have better controlled the timing of that release and had more time for its impact to be defused. We should assume that he will not drop out of the race as things stand now. If that is so, then we need to go on the offensive and highlight Obama's extreme liberal beliefs, voting record (particularly Illinois SB 101, which he co-sponsored with Carol Ronen, D-7th District which places Homosexuals, bi-sexuals, lesbians, and trans-gendered people as protected within the rubric of the Illinois Civil Rights Act), and contrast them to Ryan's beliefs. More fingerpointing will only get us closer to electing the semi-communist Obama.
OK, let's. Ryan stands as much a chance of being elected as Howard Dean does of securing this year's Democratic presidential nomination. Ryan's candidacy wasn't strong to begin with, and his own deviousness (No, sir, nothing much there!) ends any possibility of victory.