All the more time for Romney/Ryan to spend a lot of time in Florida, explaining themselves in person.G26ster wrote:I think Ryan is a fine man, but I fear that his selection may cost Florida for Romney, and without Florida there is no win regardless of how much it fires up the Conservative base. You can't argue logic, or convince the army of seniors there that Ryan won't change their existing Medicare and SS, regardless of how many times he says no one under 55 will be affected, or how many times he says you can stay on the current system. They tune that part out. It will be interesting to see the Florida polls after his naming. If they dip to a significant degree, it will spell big trouble for Romney. Very few states decide elections, and Florida is a huge one.
Smart Democrats Should Be Worried
By John Fund
August 11, 2012 11:21 A.M.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/31 ... -john-fund
I like our chances. I like them a LOT.Liberal pundits are already fanning out in force to attack and discredit Paul Ryan. Michael Tomasky, who recently wrote a Newsweek cover story calling Mitt Romney a “wimp,” has now decided that Romney’s bold move is “a terrible choice” because Ryan has proven himself to be an extremist on budget issues.
No doubt there are many Democrats rubbing their hands in glee in contemplation of reviving some version of the ad that featured an actor playing Paul Ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff. But the smarter ones are worried.
First, if Ryan is an extremist and his proposals are so unpopular, how has he won election seven times in a Democratic district? His lowest share of the vote was 57 percent — in his first race. He routinely wins over two-thirds of the vote. When Obama swept the nation in 2008, he carried Ryan’s district by four points. But at the same time, Ryan won reelection with 65 percent of the vote, meaning that a fifth of Obama voters also voted for him.
) we reached agreement that doing nothing about entitlements is bad for the country, but he was worried about the impact that doing "something" would have on him. I certainly gave him that, it's a legit concern. But even the elderly WILL be won over that doing nothing is a bigger disaster than constructive change. Obama is being revealed for the empty-promise that he is. Paul Ryan is the man to finish that job.
