I have to disagree there. Ryan will be valuable in getting at least some of the "I'm sitting this election out because they both suck." conservative base out to vote. Even here on FR there's a lot of that sentiment. Sitting home, even voting down ticket, is a defacto vote for 4 more years. The choice is Mittens or 0boober, protest voting, teaching the GOP a lesson and 3rd parties is not an option in 2012. This so-called president is a clear and present danger to the country and frankly I doubt anyone can fix things after the Roberts sellout in June.
As Levin says, this president is not a nice man, and he's not incompetent. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. A lifetime of Marxist training has taught him how to bring down a capitalist society.
Those who vote in November will vote for four more years of socialist progress except the few who vote third party and their vote is inconsequential unless somehow it is 30% or so which is not terribly likely. The Cripps and the Bloods fought out turf wars a while ago. Did it matter, really who won those turf wars in the locales where they were fought? This election is a turf war. It is not about free markets or socialism, liberty or collectivism. Those things were decided in the Republican primaries and we opted for socialism. We are going to choose the boss for the socialist machine and think it better if he wears our colors.
But never mind, Obama is simply stupid ~ and is further handicapped by his lack of experience and education.
Levin and others who want you to imagine Obama to be a smart guy with an agenda are doing no one any favors ~ and Mark knows it.
Romney's Massachusetts crowd, and Romney himself, seem to be totally oblivious to that fact.
Plus, you have to fire up the Fiscal Conservatives, Religious Conservatives, Social Conservatives, and Cultural Conservatives. Usually one candidate is unable to do all of that. Romney is singularly unprepared to deal with any of those groups, and Ryan has some limitations here.
Romney could easily have made a worse choice ~