“Mr. Ryan is new to the national scene with out-of-step views from a bygone era.. He is known as the author of the extreme GOP budget, the ‘Path to Prosperity,’ one that many say hurts the middle class.” [h/t The Hill]
THE NEXT GENERATION Ronald Reagan takes to the stage tonight. Also speaking tonight is John McCain. It’s foreign Policy, with Ryan getting a push from Team Mitt Romney to burnish his image of the subject. John McCain speaks before him, as does former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Chris Christie was the darling during the primary season. But something happened last night to shift things. Jennifer Rubin wrote that nobody gives a speech like Chris Christie. He was good, but he wasn’t extraordinary and clearly is positioning himself for 2016. After his speech it was reported he met with New Hampshire delegates.
Christie set up Paul Ryan perfectly, because as a counter image to Gov. Christie’s oversized personality, figure and squishy message discipline, Ryan looks like the iron soldier of conservatism, which helps him cut a 21st century image across his narrative, forming a new foundation for the next generation of Reagan disciples. Of course, this also includes supply side economics that has already been proven a disaster, as well as the damage profligate Pentagon spending has done to our country, pile on budgetary voodoo that was a failure, minus any revenue enhancement and tax increases, and it’s back to the future and bust all over again.
We haven’t even gotten to the issue of Ryan’s Medicare overhaul or that Paul Ryan has no plan or message on Social Security, and that nuns followed him around on a bus to protest their fellow Catholic’s horrendous hit on the poor in his budget.
If you’ve been listening to any commentary, Ryan’s speech tonight is being billed as the “biggest speech of his career.”
The standard for that is Barack Obama’s speech in 2004, which I’m doubtful anyone can ever top. Ryan may be good, but Obama proved himself a king. The new social media era also comes with people’s attention spans shorter.
In the 24/7 new-media era, what it will take in 2012 to break through like Obama did is an activist push from conservatives from all quarters, providing Paul Ryan delivers. The pressure on him to do so while eviscerating Obama policies and offering an alternative vision cannot be overstated.
You say that supply side economics is a disaster. Whatever Obama is doing a bigger disaster.
Obama is a supply sider. Thanks for proving the point that supply side economics do not work.
heheheheh.. Point to Ga6thDem.
You keep telling us whats wrong with Obama, but you have yet to tell us whats good about Mittens.
I’ve asked you before what is Mittens plan for the economy? What will he do with healthcare after he repeals Obama care? Whats his jobs plan? What will he do about education and infrastructure?
These are things that any voter would want to know, so tell us his plans seeing as you are telling us to vote for him. Also while your at it, tell us how giving more tax breaks to millionaires and corporations is going to bring down the debt and create jobs?
I’ll be waiting for your reply.
You keep spewing these scripted, void of any contact with the reality based universe talking points and expect to accomplish what? Demonstrate what a knee jerk repugnantklan/teabagger puppet you are? OK, we get it. You have nothing to say that is supportable with any facts…you are a parrot for your repugnantklan/teabagger overlords,we get it.
Speaking of knee jerk, secularh. Come on, man.
First of all Ryan is just creepy. Second of all why do they have to always talk about something that happened 32 years ago? They don’t get that no one cares about Reagan except voters over 65. People want to hear how what you’re doing is going to work. I’m not seeing any explanations come out of the GOP as to how all this is going to work other than some sort of fantasy dynamic scoring numbers. They insist on relying on the discredited laffer curve for predictions. On another blog they were talking about how Christie didn’t want the VP job because he was convinced Romney was going to go down in November. I really can’t see Ryan saying anything interesting much but to some people I guess seeing Eddie Munster worship objectivism and it’s goddess Ayn Rand is electrifying. For me, i would rather watch paint dry.
Paul Ryan is the embodiment of what Rush-Sean-Sarah, et al. have been visualizing for years. Tonight could seal his heir apparent title.