I think the fix is in. Ryan doesn’t win the presidency anytime soon.
After Romney’s one or two terms (probably one with the economy still struggling in 2016 - not sure), the Democrats will get their turn again and elect another unknown closet Marxist handpicked by Soros to finish the job.
Romney is just a rear-guard delaying action to me.
I’m not wishing death on Romney, but the only chance Ryan has is for Romney to die early in office, so we can have president Ryan and then maybe get him re-elected.
I respect your informative and well-reasoned posts. You have a great track record on your lucid thinking so I hate to discard your idea out of hand. So I won’t. But I have a hard time seeing it. I think Romney serves one term and goes down in 2016 to some no-name Marxist out of Soro’s wish list.
In a sane world, the US populace would be gun-shy to elect any Democrat after Obama’s reign of terror, but that assumes the electorate is dominated middle-class taxpayers. Now that we are at that tipping point where the electorate is more than half moochers, we can look forward to more and more Marxist presidents as time goes on as the masses continue to fall for the promise of government entitlements and perks and welfare.
Remember that defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory several times solely by the RINOs in congress and the senate, who gladly cross the aisle to prevent the conservative agenda.
It is much harder for conservatives to fight the leftists when at any moment, that RINO knife will be between their shoulder blades.
And this fight has been going on longer than most people know, as before they were called RINOs, they were called the “Country Club Republicans”, and were even around in Eisenhower’s day.
They were known to prefer that the Republicans were the minority party, as they would get tossed the scraps the Democrats would throw them, as these would keep them dominant in the Republican party.
But finally, after all these years, the rank and file have had enough of their b.s., and are slowly purging these powerful Quislings from congress. And this changes the whole equation.
Fortunately, this upcoming congress will get some of the worst of the batch out of office. And more than anything else this helps insure that there isn’t going to be any liberal Romney agenda.
Either he is going to go along with some real conservatism for a change, or he is going to ruin himself by vetoing bill after bill. Since he is not particularly dynamic, I expect that he will grudgingly accept what congress wants, albeit with considerable whining.
So taxes and budgets are going to be slashed, and that will help the US a lot. It’s going to be bad times for parasites, however.
But even a lot of the largess can have a soft landing, if the Republicans instead of using “means testing” which everyone hates, instead uses tax incentives to get people who don’t need minimal support off the system.
And the rest can be dealt with by giving block grants to the states with no strings attached, instead of payments to individuals (thank you John Roberts, a crafty gift in the Obamacare decision).