Any moment now Mitt Romney is going to come out and officially announce that Paul Ryan will be his running mate.
The campaign sent out the following message on their iPhone app:
Mitt’s choice for VP is Paul Ryan. Spread the word about America’s Comeback Team – #RomneyRyan2012
I like it! This shows that Romney is quite serious about turning things around. You can read the press release at The Weekly Standard.
I’m already hearing Democrats talk about how Obama will go after Romney/Ryan on Medicare cuts. They don’t have room to talk, as Ryan has already explained to Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Update: In The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza is griping about Ryan’s lack of private sector experience. What about Obama? Good grief.
Speaking of Obama, Ryan’s already used to being one of his targets.
After one of those broadsides, Mr. Ryan fired back, saying he had hoped for more out of the president.
“Rather than building bridges, he’s poisoning wells,” the usually mild-mannered Mr. Ryan said. “Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope; it’s not change. It’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery. We need solutions. And we don’t need to keep punting to other people to make tough decisions.”
In tapping Mr. Ryan, Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has turned the election from a referendum on Mr. Obama’s economic record into a choice between two dramatically divergent views of the government’s spending and taxes.
It also instantly elevates this year’s election beyond the name-calling and accusations of recent weeks, and gives both sides something substantive to debate.
If you’d like a preview of Ryan’s speech this morning, click here.
Update: Am Spec’s Aaron Goldstein is happy:
By picking Ryan, Romney has both elevated and embraced one of the leadings lights of 21st century American conservatism. More than any other Republican, Ryan has articulated a spirited defense of the free market, fiscal responsibility, what limited government should like and how we pay for it.
By picking Ryan, Romney has shown he’s not content to play it safe and willing to take a risk to win the election to restore America’s greatness.
By picking Ryan, Romney has put Wisconsin in play.
By picking Ryan, Romney has chosen a running mate that has gone toe to toe with President Obama and got the better of him as was the case during the 2010 Health Care Summit in Washington, D.C. When Obama publicly insulted Ryan to his face during a 2011 speech at George Washington University, Ryan called an impromptu press conference and said, “Rather than building bridges, he’s poisoning wells.” Ryan strikes fear in the heart of Obama. (Read More)
So does Romney.
For the left, A Romney pick of Ryan is a gauntlet in their faces. It says he doesn’t buy the polls that he is behind. It means he isn’t afraid of the flack he will get from the MSM. It means that he understands that the GOP house candidates will happily run on the Ryan plan while Democrat after Democrat runs from Obama like the plague. It’s a direct challenge: I’ve shown you my budget now show me yours.
I can’t wait to see Ryan debate Biden. That will be must-see TV.
Update: And this is why Obama does not like Paul Ryan:
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Update: Scared Monkeys linked and has some video from the announcement, and much more. Donald Douglas also got up early to comment, and noted that Glenn Reynolds pointed out that the announcement comes on the day that the federal government has gone 1200 days without a budget.
As for the conservatives who are griping, what do you people want? Four more years of Obama. How will that help matters? Go read Michelle Malkin’s post if you still have doubts. Either way, he’s the pick.
Update: Mark Levin commented on his facebook page:
Paul Ryan is an excellent VP choice
The Obama cheerleaders in the media are already attacking him because of the budget he proposed last year. Well, bring it on. Let’s have a fight over substance. And let’s expose Obama for the destructive leftist he is and Biden for the weak dufus he is.
Mitt Romney: Not a commie. Paul Ryan: Not a Dufus. Makes for a good slogan.
Update: Linked by Virginia Right – thanks!
Update: So happy to see that my dear friend Zilla weighed in.
This is so predictable! America’s comeback team? Seriously?
I know you aren’t going to like what I have to say but I am starting to think Anyone but Obama is a mental disease.
You have Mitt Romney who pushed statist healthcare, supported gun control, funded Planned Parenthood, forced contraceptive mandates on the Catholic Church, believes in global warming and supports cap and trade, had his own stimulus with failed green energy initiatives, and on an on in a record that looks to me similar to Obama’s, who has now nominated a TARP supporting, auto bailouting, Fourth Amendment killing Congressman who has been built up as a messiah despite the fact the conservative Club for Growth gave his budget failing marks because it didn’t cut the size and scope of the federal government to produce any serious reductions in the national debt until 2040, and you want us to believe liberal Mitt Romney is America’s comeback team? What am I missing? I must be the real lonely conservative because everyone else is buying into the idea that Mitt Romney isn’t a liberal despite his Obama like record.
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Oh, Bill. You’ve been in the bungalow far too long. It’s obvious that you have either missed or ignored the last three and a half years of Marxism and hate emitting from the White House. But maybe that’s your vision for the Country.
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Out of the announced Republican hopefuls who campaigned in the GOP primaries, which Republican hopeful did you prefer over Romney?
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That is the best and most concise explanation I have heard yet: Three and a half years of Marxism and hate. Romney is not perfect. Paul Ryan is not perfect. But both are infinitely better than what we have now.
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You’re not alone, Bill. Nothing new to see here. Both Romney and Ryan have shown time and again, they believe there is no limit to Federal powers. The Constitution is little more than toilet paper to them.
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Romney hasn’t held any federal office, so how could he have shown there is no limit to federal powers?
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All you need to know, from The republican Mother.
There are many state governors and local sheriffs fighting Federal encroachment on the powers belonging to the states and the people. Unfortunately most are on singular issues like Montana against Federal gun laws, Utah fighting to take back control over Federal lands, and California’s feeble effort to fight Federal drug laws. None are as pure in ideology as Sheriff Mack and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) to keep our Constitution based federal republic intact. I’ve haven’t yet anything from Romney to show he was ever one of them.
The only thing we might get from Romney incrementally better than Obama is a little more of a commitment to the oath of office to uphold and carry out duly enacted laws of Congress, but I couldn’t imagine him ever vetoing a bill on grounds of it’s un-Constitutionality based on many of his statements of the past, many of which mirror Obama’s.
Perhaps it’s a good time for conservatives to take a hard look at The President’s Enumerated Powers, Rulemaking by Executive Agencies, & Executive Orders and apply it to their own wishes and wants of what they think the Federal government should do for them.
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In America today, it seems like there is only one way that a challenger is going to defeat an incumbant party. That is to not have any record that can be used for attack ads by PAC’s. Amd that includes public as well as private careers. That was seen with the Obama/Clinton primaries and now we are seeing this with the current campaign. Obama won because he very seldom voted on anything paving the way for the run for the presidency.
Although Ryan is one of the few that realizes politicans in this country are going to leave our future generations a much less desirable place to live, he does have positions and votes on issues that the left most likely already have ads ready to hit the airwaves.
The question now is if American voters are smart enough to see the difference between the candidates, or are the stupid enough to believe ads featuring Joe Soptic.
I am concerned because I think there are more stupid voters than smart voters and Obama will be reelected again. That is why control of the house and senate are so important this year. Stop Obama and each time he signs an executive order, pass legislation to take that power away.
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As the leader of a local tea party, I followed the debates like a hound dog a scent. I ate it, slept it, showered with it, and if I were a smoker, would have smoked it. (like the Pres.) I had to be fair to those in my group who were all over the place, but in my heart I was a Newt fan. I contributed, I was on conference calls, I was a Newt girl. But Newt didn’t win. Romney did. Romney is now the only thing that stands between the good and the bad for this country. Do I like everything about him? No, I don’t. Do I wish there had been others willing to stand up at this time of our countries greatest peril? Yes, but they didn’t. They said it wasn’t there time. They wanted to wait. Well, George Washington didn’t wait. Ben Franklin didn’t wait. Our rag tag army fighting at Valley Forge didn’t wait, and neither did Romney, Gingrich, Santorium, Bachmann and all the others who stood up. Yes, only one prevailed.
Was he your choice? Maybe not. But the time for choosing is over. It’s now the time to join the soldiers at Valley Forge, Trenton,and Boston, because the cause they were fighting for is the same one we are confronting. It’s the cause of freedom. Of giving our children more than a government check to look forward to. It’s a war to win back our schools, to bring God back out onto the public square, to bring marriage back to one man, one woman, and it’s a war to keep our country a Republic and not a Marxist state.
When your kids ask what you did to return America to its founding, what will you say? I was too busy, I was only one person, I didn’t think it really affected me, I didn’t like Mitt Romney? Do you think those answers will satisfy? If not, it’s time to get over the fact Romney has faults, that he wasn’t your guy, that he’s rich and so on. Right now he’s the only thing standing between us and the dictatorship that will be Obama’s second term. Are you up to it, or will you take your marbles and go home. If you do, remember–when Obama takes away your guns, your property rights, your ability to find work, or to raise in society, you had a hand in it. For me—I’m voting for Romney.
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