Ryan: GOP must offer alternatives

JS Online ^ | 2-10-12 | Don Walker

[afraidfortherepublic]

The Republican Party has a moral responsibility to offer alternatives to governing in Washington, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan said Friday.

Speaking to members of the Journal Sentinel editorial board, as well as reporters and editors, the Janesville Republican said that the country is in a precarious state economically and that it's not enough to just win an election.

"I don't like the direction the president is taking," Ryan said. "I should criticize those. I also should offer alternatives. It's not enough to run against somebody. We have a moral responsibility to offer alternatives . . . Our country is in a very precarious moment."

Ryan's comments came a day after a speech in Washington before the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he sounded the same theme of encouraging conservatives to be bolder and more ambitious.

On Friday, Ryan pressed his case further.

"Give the country a choice," he said. "Let the country choose which of these two paths they want to go on. You win an election by affirmation where you have the moral authority and the obligation to actually solve the problems you are elected to do."

Ryan said an affirming election would be a contest in which "the country helps us break this gridlock. Where the country says, 'We don't like them. We think this country is on the wrong track. We're sick of this gridlock. And we want to vote for actual solutions.' "

Ryan said if the Republican Party ran on what he called "vague platitudes and what we don't like, we could probably win this election.

"But you win that election by default," Ryan said.

Asked about the current race for the Republican presidential nomination, Ryan said

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[Java4Jay]

… and that alternative is Newt. Just watch his CPAC speech and all will be clear.

[calex59]

The only acceptable alternative is to run the fed as the constitution out lined it. Anything else is just business as usual, trashing the constitution and heading for tyranny.

Conservatives have been pushing this "alternative" all along.

[no dems]

Spot on Congressman; spot on. And, I might add that Mitt Romney does NOT offer that alternative to Obama. Newt does to a large degree, but his ties to Freddie, Fanny and Nancy don’t help him, nor does the fact that he supported Health Care Mandates in the not-too-distant past. Guess who that leaves. And it’s not Ron Paul GO RICK; GO!!!

[Common Sense 101]

Blah, blah, blah... Ryan, like every other limp-wristed Washington Repukelican pansy, endlessly profess “what they should do” while simultaneously doing nothing. They are enablers of this socialist skid mark's administration and have willingly stood by and watched his willful destruction of the country with hardly a sound in protest. Meanwhile overwhelmingly positive results of conservative principles and policies are on display in places like Wisconsin (Scott Walker), Texas (Rick Perry), etc. without nary a mention.

[MadelineZapeezda]

You’re saying Ryan is twiddling his thumbs doing nothing????Who do you think is crunching the numbers and proposing a budget???? They wanted to destroy him by portraying him as throwing grandma off the cliff....I wish HE were running for POTUS