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Paul Ryan: Where Things Stand
By Erick Erickson
Paul
Ryan is not a safe pick. In fact, it is a pick that suggests Mitt
Romney knows he needs to shift momentum in the race. When the GOP is
winning on all the major polling questions of debt, deficit, and
economy and still losing overall — the polling can’t all be wrong,
including Fox News — the Romney camp needs a new direction and a more
focused message.
What they had been doing was not and is not working.
Paul
Ryan works. The most recently named Human Events Conservative of the
Year is a lightening rod on the left for the Ryan plan, which balances
the budget over the next two decades. What was not enough for some
conservatives is too much for some liberals. 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.
The
left will demonize and demagogue Paul Ryan. They’d do that to anyone.
This is a party that is currently accusing MItt Romney of murder and
previously accused Paul Ryan of killing old people. The only problem
is, the old people are receptive to Paul Ryan’s message. The bluster
you hear today is a Democratic Party excited to have their bogey man as
the Republican veep pick, with a little bit of nervous apprehension
about what Ryan is capable of.
The sighs you hear are
Republicans sighing some relief. Finally, the Romney campaign has a
spokesman who can do what Mitt Romney has never been capable of doing —
defend success and articulate a message of why we must reform our
nation’s budget and support free markets.
After all
the Romney campaign missteps and flubs of the past few weeks, I am
encouraged. But we should be clear here: it is not enough, but it is an
excellent start to a reboot.
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