[DustyMoment]

Romney's Choice of Ryan Aimed at Winning Middle Class

Yeah, good luck with that. IMO, the Romney-Ryan ticket is a yawner.

[Revolting cat!]

Yep. No pandering to former slaves, former Aztecs, former something or other survivors, present poofters and other preverts!

[SCalGal]

Obama responded by framing the race as a choice between an incumbent middle-class champion and a corporate raider whose plans would only help the rich

Incumbent middle-class champion?? Who? Where?

[entropy12]

DemocRats will scare the seniors into believing that Ryan's plan to reform entitlements will cut their benefits. This has already begun!

GOP needs to shout loudly that Ryan's plan changes nothing for those 55 & over. Their Medicare & Social Security remains exactly as is.

[Oratam]

The Ryan pick is a Hail Mary pass meant to appeal to the few remaining American who bother to balance their checkbooks and live within their means.

After this election the demographics of this country change so dramatically there will never again be an American who sits at his kitchen table, thinking about his own bills, reading the papers while rubbing his head thinking "how the hell are the clowns in Washington ever going to dig us out of the mess they've gotten us into?"

That kind of American, that kind of American, is gone, finished, done in 4 years. Replaced by the gimme-gimme entitlement moochers. Lights out. Good-night Irene.

[SuziQ]

"The Republican wants them to get rich. The Democrat wants them dependent on the state. That’s a choice election the GOP would take any year."

Yep!

[lentulusgracchus]

(Article) Aspirational voters don’t like the possibility that government policy is rigged to help the rich get richer and keep the middle class from getting ahead. That’s where Obama’s attacks have connected.

Pigs at the trough openly stuck their hands in the till in 2008 and put us trillions into debt ..... and now it comes back to bite them on the ass. Amazing how that happens.

And at the worst possible moment, with a Stalinist cabal waiting obviously for years in the wings, to push aside the last of the liberals and take us into a Marxist-Leninist totalitarian dictatorship. Thanks, piggie Republicans!

As for Ryan being an "aspirational" UMC candidate .... looking at the map seems to have more explanatory power. He's a Battleground State moderate Republican who knows how to speak Budget. Looks like a pretty-obvious strategy to me!

[lentulusgracchus]

(Art.) Democratic consultants Stan Greenberg, James Carville, and Erica Seifert predicted in July, in a strategy memo drawn from polling and focus groups focused squarely on Ryan’s plan......

So that's what Serpent Head has been up to. Wargaming every Republican nominee and VP possibility and focus-grouping the election to death, just like Slick did with his Chinese reptile money in 1995.

[MamaTexan]

Romney's Choice of Ryan Aimed at Winning Middle Class

LOL! I think Romney's choice of Ryan was aimed more at preventing conservatives from leaving in droves!

[generally]

Romney’s Choice of Ryan Aimed at Winning.

There. Fixed it.

Romney/Ryan 2012

[samtheman]

The article fails to mention an important aspect to the Ryan pick:

Ryan is a fighter, and there is no doubt he will take the fight directly to Obama.

The fact that Romney picked a fighter means he’s a fighter too, and isn’t going to lay down and surrender the way McCain did.

I know what some are thinking, that McCain too picked a fighter VP and then not only surrendered but muzzled Palin to enable his own surrender.

But there’s a big difference. First of all, McCain didn’t pick Palin as a fighter, he picked her as a woman. He wanted a pair of high heels on his ticket and when Palin tried to be more than that, she was immediately shut down by her handlers.

Ryan is being picked as a fighter. I predict there are going to be no Romney handlers trying to hold Ryan back.

We are going to see a real knock-down drag out fight. It won’t be a fair fight (Obama has the entire media establishment on his side) but it will be a real fight. Unlike McCain’s faux fight.