This will be a historic victory for the Republican Party in that they win a large electoral victory for the White house, and large majorities in the House and Senate. This has not happened in about a hundred years. The battle will be epic and all hands will be needed on deck. I believe the combination of the pro-business programs and pent up demand will put us in good shape for the 2014 elections. It will be a time we conservatives have never experienced. It will be very exciting and definitely historic.
I hope your prediction is correct. I’m not nearly as optimistic as you are. There are so many people receiving government money and so much power in the media to disseminate lies and propaganda and so many opportunities for the demonrats to cheat at the ballot box that I think there is a good chance Romney will lose, no matter what he does.
But I do believe Romney made the right choice, maybe even the best choice, with Paul Ryan. And I do believe that he showed true leadership by making that choice. And I further believe that — despite his past — he even showed true conservatism making that choice.
This is not like McCain picking Palin. McCain picked Palin for show. She was a conservative woman who McCain picked to a) have a woman on his ticket and b) convince the conservatives to vote for him. But from the beginning he planned to muzzle her and only have her symbolically at his side.
Anyone who believes that Romney is doing the same thing with Ryan isn’t just ignorant, they are just plain stupid.
Ryan is just another white guy and if he wasn’t picked for his ideas then he wasn’t picked at all. Every indication is he was picked for his ideas. Every indication is he will be on the team as a team fighter, not as some kind of token.
Romney showed leadership here and only the most stubborn will refuse to see that.
It will be historic, true, but for it to be effective we have to get people back to work, particularly the urban poor. That means welfare reform built around ending teen motherhood, cutting regulatory red tape, and creating a sane tax policy.
If half or more of all Americans have no vested interest in producing, but desire consumption rights, we’re cooked.