I don’t think anyone has coined RomneYAN so I’m claiming ownership to it and you’re all witness to it.
As for Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, it’s a risky move for Romney but both political parties will love it. Republicans believe Ryan will be able to move the focus of the election away from Romney’s tax returns, tax havens and his Bain years and bring it back onto the only issue they want to discuss – blaming the weak economy on President Obama.
As for Democrats, Ryan in the VP slot allows them to zero in on the Ryan budget and the catastrophic effect it will have on the middle class, the social safety net and economic recovery. Up to this point, Romney has been reluctant to talk about the Ryan budget but those days are over. It’s now front and center.
Timothy Noah at the New Republic believes Romney has just handed the election over to Obama.
…that’s the final demonstration that Romney will never, ever move to the center. He will never stop trying to establish his bona fides with the Republican party’s hard right wing, even when doing so demonstrably harms his own interest, as it does here. The inmates will run the asylum.
…this is a fantastic stroke of luck for President Obama. Presidents presiding over the sort of economy we have right now don’t usually get re-elected. But a president handed the opportunity to run against a GOP ticket that’s unabashedly in favor of abolishing Medicare–something even the Tea Party opposes–would probably win in November.
Erick ‘Son of Erick‘ Erickson believes that the Ryan pick while not the safest one Romney could have made, is the right one for a candidate desperately needing to shift the momentum over to his side.
Paul Ryan exposes the left’s great lie. They think they can just raise taxes on those who make $250,000.00 a year or more and never have to cut spending or fix entitlements. Paul Ryan not only exposes that lie, but he has plans to solve it. He does so as a fresh, young face who is not at all scary to old people and relates to them and to young people. He himself is in his early 40?s with small kids. He’s from a swing state, out performed John McCain in his home district, and is telegenic and articulate. Paul Ryan is what Mitt Romney needs.
We’ll see but with three months to go, the one sure bet is that a Paul Ryan in the VP slot serves Republicans better than a Sarah Palin ever could.
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(The Romney source photograph is a Creative Commons licensed image from photographer Gage Skidmore. The Paul Ryan source photograph is in the public domain.)
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Considering that Paul Ryan’s family’s business, Ryan Construction, made $M off of Janesville’s municipal need for schools and other projects, I find it ironic that he wants to cut government spending. Ryan gives Janesville a bad name. I’m now ashamed to admit that’s my hometown.
I can’t help but believe that America’s seniors are too wise to vote for a man that wants to put them under a bridge or on a warm air grate for the winter. Without Social Security and Medicare that’s what would happen to many of us.
A man who picks his running mate on a Saturday,picks someone who will destroy the safety net,closes a plant,lays off a worker who loses his health care and his wife dies.these are 2 dangerous people.
If this was happening in a darkened theater I would believe we were watching some SiFi flick about a future made up of leftover bits from the mind of some drugged dictator. But since it seems to be actually happening I’m going to take some time to get my balance.
It seems that most of the things we have fought so long and so hard for, over many years are all starting to dissolve right in front of our eyes, voting rights, health care for all, good education for all our children, a true middle class, S.S. and Medicare all being pecked to death. Too extreme, maybe? But someone should mention to Romney/Ryan that Ayn Rand wrote novels, fiction, she wasn’t an economic or social engineer to improve the United States. She was a self-centered nut case and a loser who spent her last years sick, alone and on welfare. Some model for their plutocratic wet dream.
@ dinamic, Unfortunately there are so many people, many in my family, who think of Ayn Rand as something of a goddess. They also think of Ronnie Raygun as an icon of conservative fiscal responsibility, conveniently forgetting that he increased the national deficit by 287% while he was in office.
WOW Charlie, a goddess? Do they know very much about her? It just seems incongruous to me that anyone ever took her seriously for very long, like Alan Greenspan for example. With people like Ryan I would assume that her philosophy gives him license to be what he wants to be, a selfish jerk, but if good people are falling for her schtik I don’t know what to say.
I can only imagine what family gatherings are like for you.
Ayn Rand was a sociopath…who went on the Social Security dole in the end.
I’m remembering back to April, 2011, just after Ryan announced his “Road to Ruin” Budget Plan…the President gave a speech at George Washington U and sat Ryan in the front row…here are his remarks. (BTW, my favorite political messaging guru, George Lakoff, raved about it in his post: “Obama Returns to His Moral Vision”)
http://img3.wpdigital.net/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/04/13/National-Politics/Videos/04132011-42v/04132011-42v.jpg
Jon Nichols writes that Ryan has an axe to grind with the President for the beating he took that day…good luck with that, Paul.
Ayn Rand was a sociopath…who availed herself of Social Security in the end.
I’m remembering back to April, 2011 just after Ryan announced his “Road to Ruin” Budget…the President gave a speech at George Washington U and sat Ryan in the front row…these are his remarks:
http://img3.wpdigital.net/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/04/13/National-Politics/Videos/04132011-42v/04132011-42v.jpg
Soon after, my favorite political messaging guru, George Lakoff, wrote a rave entitled “Obama Returns to his Moral Vision”. Jon Nichols writes that Ryan has an axe to grind after that beating…good luck with that, Paul.
@Carol – is that link supposed to go to a video? All it brings up is a static picture (the clue is the fact that the URL ends in “.jpg”).
Sorry…they must have taken it down…try THIS:
President Obama’s Speech on 2012 Budget – April 13, 2011 …
? 43:33? 43:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJiHxRv2M0
Thanks. It’s not always easy keeping up with disappearing links.
You’re so welcome….it’s one of my favorites.
I’m sure we’ll hear echoes of it in the coming weeks….along with “you didn’t build that”
I cannot agree that Republicans favor the choice of Wrong Way Ryan as the VP candidate. Certainly the brainwashed extreme right wingnut contingent will be happy but most of the real republicans are shaking their collective heads at this ticket.
Ryan will not bring anything to this ticket that will attract a broader base. All he can do is reinforce the existing Romney voting block. What he does bring to the party is a broader objection base to those republicans, independent and blue dog voters that don’t like Obama. If anything Ryan weakens the republican ticket with those non-radical tea potty type voters.
I can see a tombstone in the republican party getting much more visible.