Romney Wants His Risky Pick to Play It Safe
Source: AP
Romney Wants His Risky Pick to Play It Safe
GLEN ALLEN, Va. August 18, 2012 (AP)
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney wants running mate Paul Ryan to play it safe.
The nation's most controversial budget architect, Ryan is often described as the intellectual leader of the House Republican caucus. But Romney's Boston headquarters so far, at least seems to prefer that the 42-year-old father of three talks about camping and milking cows instead of the transformational budget proposals that made him a conservative hero.
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"We will not duck the tough issues," Ryan declared in Virginia on Friday. "We will lead."
But Ryan has been directed to avoid taking questions from reporters who travel with his campaign and to agree only to a handful of carefully selected interviews. He is known for sketching budget graphs on napkins to explain his ideas, but this week it was Romney who used a white board during a news conference to help detail his own plan and he says it's virtually identical to Ryan's.
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BrainMann1
(460 posts)OK, here's what we're going to do. Mitt you go in that corner, Ryan you over there. When you heard the bell! Ryan you fall down.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)It's pretty much the only shirt he wears.
bucolic_frolic
(43,310 posts)Typical of White New England Upper Crust CEO's on off-business hours
and very Tea Potty-ish
Sort of a brand, the way blue oxfords were to the Wall Street 1980s
They're overdoing the wardrobe thing. Surprised if they haven't hired
an image wardrobe consultant. Tundra was given what, $177,000
for wardrobe and makeup?