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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Mitt really going to choose Mini Me?
Romney surrogate and VP contender Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Sunday that the Obama campaign using Bain Capital and the issue of Romneys taxes to distract the country from the issues people really care about.
People are not worried about the details as to when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital to save the Olympics or the details about his assets, which are managed by a blind trust for Petes sake, Ryan said on Face the Nation. Theyre worried about their jobs and their familys future.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/ryan-romneys-assets-in-blind-trust-for-petes
Mitt's running for President, for Pete's sake!
The most recent manifestation is an all-hands-on-deck effort to make Romney pick Paul Ryan as his vice president. Choosing Ryan would heighten the substantive stakes of the election, but it would also put a watchdog on the ticket one who would be disinclined to march along if Romney wandered away from the conservative agenda.
The clamor you are hearing for Paul Ryan for VP is not about helping the Romney candidacy, wrote conservative writer, and former George W. Bush aide, David Frum. Its about controlling the Romney campaignand ultimately the Romney presidency. Its about forcing a platform on Romney, and then dictating the agenda for that presidencys first year. The platform happens to be suicidal, and the agenda impossible, but that does not matter to the Ryan advocates. They take the old Tammany Hall point of view: Better to lose an agenda than lose control of the party. In that sense, the Ryan proposal is a test of Romneys leadership. If he accedes, its a big surrender of controland a surrender to many of those who most opposed (and who inwardly continue to dislike) his nomination.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-paul-ryan-budget-conservatives-vice-president-health-care.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Mitt's going to need a bigger white flag!
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)that he didn't have the social skills to work the counter? Ryan the guy who was voted "The Biggest Brown-noser" in highschool? Ryan the Ayn Rand devotee? Ryan the guy who wants to spend two trillion just in transition fees to privatize Social Security? Paul Ryan whose plan Karl Rove warned Bush to stay away from and when Bush ignored his advice, the democrats savaged the plan resulting in a huge drop in the polls for bush and a loss of 30 seats in the House? Paul Ryan, the trust fund baby that closely resembles Eddie Munster? That Paul Ryan?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)That is, the Republicon party. Do they really think the Ryan budget is a winning gambit? That even low-information voters, who will be paying at least marginal attention this fall, are going to like what they see?
Wow.