Students of Paul Ryan

National Review ^ | August 14, 2012 | Robert Costa

[Lou Budvis]

Republican Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority whip, first met Paul Ryan more than a decade ago, when McCarthy was a staffer for congressman Bill Thomas, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Even then, McCarthy recalls, he was impressed with Ryan’s grasp of complicated fiscal issues. Ryan was only in his early 30s, and he looked even younger, but he had the knowledge of a senior member and none of the usual swagger.

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“He has been a teacher to so many others,” McCarthy says. “During the listening sessions, he sketched out how the entire federal government works, pointing out where and why there are some real challenges.” Ryan’s talent, he says, isn’t so much lecturing but channeling the broad desire for reform into a discussion of budget details. “He would get into how far people want to go with the budget,” McCarthy says. “A lot of people didn’t realize about how much our fiscal house was in disorder, about how bad things have gotten.”

[Lou Budvis]

This is what so many of us have been waiting for a long time. Someone who not only has command the ideology, but also the facts to show that we are right. It's forgotten by some now, but watch some old clips of Ronald Reagan where he would bring up numerous facts and statistics to make his point.