[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I’m no fan of Romney, but Picking Ryan was an excellent choice for five reasons:

1. It shows us that Romney understands the economic Armageddon we are approaching and that serious economic reform is needed to avoid that cliff.
2. It shows that he was paying attention to Ryan’s legislative suggestions over the past years, sound and good suggestions that are bold and in the right direction — suggestions largely ignored by the Democrats and the establishment
3. It shows he’s paying attention to the conservative base.
4. He could have chosen a “token” VP running mate simply to appeal to some special, minority class of voters (a woman, a racial or ethnic minority, etc.). Instead, he picked a “white male,” which many in the government-media industrial complex will attack as being anti-woman, anti-minority. This tells us that Romney wants to put together a team that will fix the problems, not one that will have only popular appeal. It also tells the conservative base he’s not going to play those “I’m PC and hip” games. This also shows us that he is confident in winning this race without having to play those cheap political games.
5. Ryan is an excellent voice for going after the left on ideological grounds and destroying their arguments. Romney’s pick of Ryan tells us that he’s not going to play the “kid glove” games that McCain and the rest of the establishment have been playing with Obammie the Commie.

All in all, a very good pick by Romney and I give him credit.

As I’ve stated over the past years, though, I don’t think financial Armageddon can be avoided at this point and that we are facing a global depression that will make the 1930’s look like the Roarin’ 20’s. My fear is that the collapse will occur (or will be made to occur) when the Oval Office is occupied by those the socialists/fascists/communists can call “free-marketers” or “Capitalists” and that they will blame the collapse on Capitalism and a free-market economy, shifting blame from where it belongs: the Statists and their socialist/communist/fascist economic policies.

[newheart]

I think Ryan was his best possible choice.

Now I wonder whether we’ll see the sharks come out on the Dem side. Not just trashing Ryan—that’s a given—but how about replacing Biden with Hillary? Biden is more like Goofy than a real attack dog, and they will think that pulling Hillary off the bench will emphasize Ryan’s supposed lack of foreign policy cred.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Ryan and Obama have mixed it up before

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/ryan_and_obama_have_mixed_it_up_before.html#ixzz23FIEzD3d

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/ryan_and_obama_have_mixed_it_up_before.html

[oldbrowser]

This tells us that Romney wants to put together a team that will fix the problems, not one that will have only popular appeal. It also tells the conservative base he’s not going to play those “I’m PC and hip” games.

I agree, there was no perfect choice, but Romney is signaling that he is willing to sacrifice glitz and popular appeal for competence and quality in order to turn the economy around.