"And I'll Have To Bebate This Man?"
Posted on 08/11/2012 6:01:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Drudge Report singled out political writer Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker as having the unintentionally hilarious first spin on the reported pick of Paul Ryan to be Romney's running mate. Lizza immediately started to "tally the risks."
"For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience," he wrote. He wrote this with zero ackowledgment of Obama's private-sector experience scooping mint-chip at Baskin-Robbins. If the rest of the media follows this line, this is going to be shamelessly biased:
Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.
But that wasn't blind, deaf, and dumb to Obama's resume enough: he also didn't have enough Washington experience:
But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.
And the experience that Ryan does have is not exactly what voters are clamoring for at the moment. The bulk of Ryan’s House career coincided with the Presidency of George W. Bush, during which he was a reliable vote for many Bush policies that have not aged well: Medicare Part D; the Iraq War; and the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Ryan told me that voting for all of that spending, which added trillions to the deficit, made him “miserable,” but he’ll need a better explanation in his October debate with Joe Biden.
Presumably, Romney’s main reason for picking Ryan is not his early deficit-busting record but his more recent rise to celebrity as a crusading policy wonk determined to tame the federal government. Romney, who has been extremely vague about what he would do if elected, will now own Paul Ryan’s ideas, which include privatizing Social Security, turning Medicare into a voucher program, bloc-granting and drastically cutting Medicaid, and reducing discretionary spending to levels that would affect every popular government program. This Ryan agenda will now fill the vacuum created by Romney’s unwillingness to lay out the specifics of his own plan. Even before this (apparent) announcement, Democrats were planning on tying Romney to Ryan’s policy platform. Now Romney has done it for them.
Lizza could only say that Romney deserves credit for turning this into a strong ideological choice for voters -- as if Obama's extremely liberal record hasn't already done that:
Romney’s choice of Ryan will undoubtedly be criticized as capitulation to the right, and this pick does seem to demonstrate that Romney is not able or willing to distance himself from the base of his party. But the good thing about the Ryan pick is that the Presidential campaign will instantly turn into a very clear choice between two distinct ideologies that genuinely reflect the core beliefs of the two parties. And in that sense, Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan is good news for voters.
My favorite laugh, “ no private sector experience”
Seriously.
Did they say the same about Obama’s”Lack of Experience”?????????
"And I'll Have To Bebate This Man?"
The Democrat talking heads already sound like a bunch of ugly bullies. The Democrats have no plan for the future of this country. They only can attack anyone who wants to quit out of control spending.
Is that all they got???? ROFL What losers!!!
Wow, talk about missing the point.
Ryan is the intellectual leader of fiscal conservatives in congress and now, nationally. This isn’t about his business experience, it’s about his plan to fix the budget.
If anything, Ryan should be at the top of the ticket.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Just a matter of time before the rest of the lamestreams get on board.
Pathetic.
Smart strategy. The Ryan pick will make the press attack Romney over fiscal policy and cause the voters to focus on the number one issue. No matter what they use to attack they keep Obama’s weakest track record in the news. Also, Romney can triangulate and say he is using Ryan’s smarts and his liberal leanings.
This charge (esp. the foreign policy aspect) could probably be leveled at any of Romney's VP short list.
Ryan's going to be mercilessly savaged (as any of the picks would have been). The whining Freepers among us will go weak kneed in a NY minute as they always do with the DBM attacks.
We wanted a conservative pick. We got a solid one. Now we all need to buck up, not succumb to the left wing attack apparatus, and support this ticket 100%.
Even after nearly four years as POTUS, obama still has less experience than Ryan ... considering that in America, time spent as a socialist doesn't count toward experience in our republican form of government.
Yeah, Democrat Socialists ... run with this one. (Double HA!)
Paul Ryan, the perfect replacement for 0bama.
Ryan tooo inexperienced to be VP? ROTFLOL
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He still is lacking experience and a second term still wouldn’t give it to him
I think Ryan is a great choice for VP for a conservative presidential candidate except his value in the House probably outweighs his value as a VP as a VP has no duties other than tie-breaking in the Senate. With a non-conservative Presidential Candidate, Ryan is doing the nation a disservice by leaving the House. We need all the counterweight we can get to the big picture and bi-partisan things that would surely come from a President Mitt. I would rather Romney chose a “moderate” or “middle-of-the-road” VP if he must take one from the legislature. I am glad he did not choose Palin. A Palin VP to Romney would end Palin’s effectiveness as a Republican heavyweight and her shot at the presidency next time.
they’re running the same argument they used against Palin all over again. Palin lack foreign policy, well same with Obama but media ignore.
they’re running the same argument they used against Palin all over again. Palin lack foreign policy, well same with Obama but media ignore.
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Hear! Hear!
The author didn't write that. This article can only happen because of the help from the government, or the Obama Reelection Committee
Posted 8/11/2012, 8:48:38am by JoeKlip
I am so psyched!!!
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TYG!
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