Romney is awful and I swore to myself I wouldn’t get suckered into voting for VP again. In practice, a VP does absolutely nothing and has no effect on anything once in office.
It would be nice to hear someone articulating conservative ideas, however, and Ryan is very, very good at that. The question in my mind is whether Romney (who is not conservative in any area except perhaps about the tax rate that affects him) will let him do so.
Romney is a poor speaker and has a poor command of facts, so he may not be comfortable with somebody who is just his opposite and, what’s worse, may not defend him or even let him speak in the first place.
However, there is a faint possibility that Ryan will actually shape up Romney a bit. One of the reasons that Romney is so inarticulate and can’t defend himself against attacks is that he really has no program of his own. Maybe Ryan’s job will be to give him one.
I’m going to wait and see. That said, I really wish Ryan were the Presidential candidate and Romney was off somewhere washing his temple garments and consulting Moroni about life on Kolob.
A VP ‘does absolutely nothing’?
I’m think Dick Cheney might have something to say about that...
Agree liv.
Romney better make use of Ryan’s many talents and be grateful that he is on his ticket....like kiss his feet kind of gratitude.
As Laura Ingraham said yesterday, Mittens is not running an effective campaign and if the election were held yesterday, he would lose and badly.
We’ll see if this is a game changer..