The Benedict Arnold wing of the Conservative movement bitch and whine about the GOP-e when they DON'T pick a Conservative, then they bitch and whine when they do!
Seems to me their goal is not to advance the Conservative agenda but to just mindlessly bitch about the GOP.
Funny thing, that is exactly the same thing the Democrat Party propaganda bots in the media do.
These self styled “conservatives in the whiners choir are the useful idiots of the Democrat Party propaganda machine.
I do not operate for either side looking to destroy our nation. Some do, I do not.
Seems to me their goal is not to advance the Conservative agenda but to just mindlessly bitch about the GOP.
Hard to argue with that!
WOW a whole lot of bitch and whine about bitch and whine.
I had the same skeptical reaction to Romney when I heard about his selection. Any "talking points" must be traveling via some sort of telepathy, and be using some "Tokyo Rose" distribution list I'm not familiar-- and certainly didn't know I belonged to.
The Benedict Arnold wing of the Conservative movement bitch and whine about the GOP-e when they DON'T pick a Conservative, then they bitch and whine when they do!
I have no particular loyalty to the GOP party. I'm a conservative. Historically, that means that I'm more closely aligned with the GOP-- but that alignment has become more and more questionable.
I don't bitch and whine when a conservative is selected for president, I bitch and whine when a liberal is selected for president, and then selects a conservative as vice president, especially when it potentially side-lines and neuters that outstanding conservative for at least four years.
Vice Presidents, overall, have not much impact on the national discussion, nor with policy making and, where they disagree with the President, you hardly hear about them at all. Cheney was an exception to this, because President Bush used him as a mentor and a senior advisor, and trusted him to carry on the message.
Given Ryan's grasp of economics and policy, and based on Romney's differing views, it seems much more likely to me that Romney wants to control someone who would otherwise be making trouble for him in Congress.
Pardon me (and others) for being cynical about someone we view as Obama-lite. That doesn't make us traitors to the party or the movement-- and it certainly isn't making the same argument that the other side is.
I'll be pulling the lever for Romney in November. I'm getting REALLY TIRED of having to vote for a strong Vice President instead of a President.