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Suppose Mitt's environment in Mass. was the reason for his seemingly liberal positions. Consider that he's a Mormon, and conservative by nature. We know he's good at assessing situations, so he clearly can see what's happening to our country and what needs to be done to fix it, which is his speciality.

We know he wants to free the energy industry to get the boom started. Add a bold conservative like Ryan, and a bunch more T-Partiers to Congress....

....we could be in for a pleasant surprise.

I'm not going to trust Mitt for a while (with good reason), but this is a good start. It does fully energize the tea party and the conservative base. It really signals he's serious about undoing Obamacare and dealing with the fiscal crisis.

I can handle that.

Voting for some third party douchebag the way some of the purists want us to do is inconceivable when the choice is giving Hugo Chavez Kardashian Jr another four years.

“Suppose Mitt’s environment in Mass. was the reason for his seemingly liberal positions. Consider that he’s a Mormon, and conservative by nature. We know he’s good at assessing situations, so he clearly can see what’s happening to our country and what needs to be done to fix it, which is his speciality.

We know he wants to free the energy industry to get the boom started. Add a bold conservative like Ryan, and a bunch more T-Partiers to Congress....

....we could be in for a pleasant surprise. “

I hope you’re right. I was only of those “anybody but Mitt” guys during the primary, but this pick is reassuring to me. It tells me that Mitt is willing to take on the tough economic problems and really try to fix them, whatever the political cost.

Of all the people in Mitt’s final “short list”, I think Ryan was far and above the best choice. About the only negative he has from a conservative prospective is that he voted for TARP. Otherwise, I find very little fault with Ryan.