Posted on 08/30/2012 11:57:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Paul Ryan had never before struck me as an inspiring speaker. I mean, I like the fellow: he has sound ideas, he's charming and he has a demotic, boy-next-door quality which is unusual among cerebral politicians. But his chief appeal has always been as a policy specialist rather than an orator.
Until last night. Ryan's speech to the Republican Convention in Tampa was a masterpiece. As Roger Kimball observes, 'His manner is open, confident, but somehow also humble. There is nothing swaggering, nothing of the braggart or narcissist about him. He seems impressed, not by the sound of his own voice, but by the facts and observations he shares with his listeners'.
Ryan took complex issues – the debt crisis, reform of Medicare, unemployment – and made them simple. He spoke movingly of his home town, the town where he still lives, and of the factory there which Barack Obama had said would be open for another hundred years, but which had closed a year later. He humanised the recession, managing to lay particular emphasis on 'the heartland': the key swing states of the Midwest. College graduates, he said, shouldn't have to live out their twenties in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at their fading Obama posters and wondering when they could move out and get on with life. There was something fundamentally wrong with wanting a society 'where everything is free – except us'.
.....No longer are Americans simply being invited to vote against the government that has presided over the downturn; now they are being given the chance to vote for balanced budgets and recovery. Ryan's newfound eloquence, his ability to convey the urgency of the crisis without sounding hysterical, is a bonus.
Leftist commentators, sensing the danger, have torn into him....
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I used to think Romney was weak too.
Originally, I preferred Cain, then Newt, then Santorum...then having no further options, Romney.
However, he was strong enough to pick Paul Ryan.
I have to give this man credit. That was very damn strong.
Paul Ryan is exactly where America needs him, and that is running against Obama the communist.
Congress has been rendered useless by John Boehner. Ryan’s talent is wasted there.
Thank you kindly, I really appreciate that.
Sometimes I feel like I’m on a tear or some kind of rant here, but I just cannot stomach the defeatism, the If I can’t have it all right now, then I don’t want any of it ever attitude around here.
Of course this isn’t everyone, but generally speaking it seems to be coming from many of the senior members here, and absolutely cannot tolerate it any longer!
Paying attention to what folks are actually saying, tends to do that when what they are saying is fundamentally off the Conservative track.
Romney picked a guy that could be an equal partner. He also picked a guy that at year eight, would be just the age to take over for another eight.
I appreciate the context of what you referencing. I think you make a decent point.
None the less, Ryan is going to be able to say things that Romney agrees with, that folks would dismiss if Romney were saying them. The guy has been successful, but instead of people giving him credit, they just trash him for being rich.
I think the guy deserves criticism for his lapses on Conservatism, but he does deserve kudos for his business acumen and recognizing Ryan as a man that could fill out the ticket nicely.
If Romney had left Ryan in the house and picked another person, folks would be trashing him for not picking a more sound person. The guy couldn’t really win with some of us. Not being a fan, I do appreciate some things he has done. This was one of them.
Can we vote for 2 VPs then?
Palin/Paul or Sarah Ryan or Paul Palin
As soon as Romney becomes POTUS Ryan will be muzzled and kept with minor duties, so everyone best get their chances now to observe him in action, as history shows the VP is just Plan B, the Backup, the Next One in Succession.
Yep.
As Geo. H.W. Bush put it so well: “The job of the vice president is to inquire as to the health of the President...”
and then get along to his golf game.
And you are the arbiter of said track? Please.
I agree, well put!
I think Sarah Palin would have turned out just fine in a McCain administration and proven to be an asset to this country, if more Americans had been convinced to vote for her. I'm sold more on the idea of voting for a squishy RINO when they have a solid conservative running mate, than I am on the idea of voting Republican for "Supreme Court judges". I've had quite enough of those "conservative Republican judges". The most recent one just enshrined Obamacare as constitutional.
The Vice Presidential picks have turned to be much better than the SCOTUS judges.
Good one.
Okay, then you think replacing Obamacare with Romneycare is Conservative. Nice to know.
You also think that deficit spending out 12 to 16 more years is okay, as long as it is our team’s plan. Nice to know.
We have been unified here against Mitt Romney for over a decade. Now you’re trying to make the case that I shouldn’t be the arbiter of what’s Conservative or not, because I hold fast to our until recent vision of who and what he is.
Frankly, I’m quit comfortable with that. Do what you’ve gotta do...
“Okay, then you think replacing Obamacare with Romneycare is Conservative. Nice to know.”
I never said that and neither has Romney. Romney HAS been on the record in defense of his Health Care in MA that it was a State’s right to enact. Something Conservatives are opposed to, in your humble opinion? Now you’re just making shit up, like most pseudo-knowledgeable mopes do when they have no other answers.
“I don’t back states doing something we wouldn’t want the federal government doing.”
Then you are not only not a conservative, you are a f***ng Statist. No wonder you don’t get it, you’re a GD NAZI.
If I won’t support a federal health care plan, and I won’t support a state health care plan, how in the same hell do you come up with the idea I’m a Statist, and GD NAZI?
So far you’re the only one supporting a guy who plans on replacing Obamacare at the federal level with his own plan.
What does that make you?
Good grief!
Statist.
Okay, then defend the comment. What’s your reasoning?
Oh, you don’t have any reasoning...
Never-mind. LOL
You picked the right screen name.
When the Left can’t grasp an issue, they just yell racist.
When you can’t grasp one, you just yell Statist.
How very Leftist of you.
Plainly nothing else matters. It's not that hard. In the process of saving our economy R-R will also necessarily promote greater liberty by freeing up markets, or else they won't succeed; and that, rational freepers, as you know, is a twofer.
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