Paul Ryan is "a business agent for the robber barons of the 21st century."

From Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/11/the_woman_paul_ryan_beat/

Lydia Spottswood, the Democratic woman whom Paul Ryan bested in his first-ever political race for Congress in 1998, told Salon today that no one should underestimate Ryan’s skills — or his radicalism.

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That amiability, Spottswood said, allowed people to overlook his views on Social Security and Medicare, which even then involved a major overhaul for the programs — a point she tried in vain to corner him on in the campaign.

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“If you really move all the clutter and all the doublespeak out of the way, you realize that the modern Republican Party is championing the vision of Ayn Rand, every man for himself, and women get to take a very deep backseat,” Spottswood says now.

She added, “One of the things that is said a lot in news stories is that Paul is a budget nerd. But he’s a business agent for the robber barons of the 21st century.” The Romney-Ryan campaign, she said, is ”promoting a reactionary vision for America, and Paul Ryan is a perfect foil for this.”

Spottswood gives more interesting details about Ryan's dishonest campaigning in 1998. He shot ads of himself on construction sites, wearing a hard hat as he looked at blueprints, to fight the accurate characterization of him as a Washington insider. And he had his sister and her baby show up with him at plant gates to "shore up his family values credibility" when people just meeting him assumed that was his wife and child (he didn't get married till two years later).