Mitts had me worried but then he started acting like he might run.

I’m impressed

Of course Andrea is plain stupid. When has she said anything interesting or insightful?

Off topic. It didn’t take long for them to put out the first attack ad. Hope R & R are ready to do battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWyk-Mr6cfc&feature=player_embedded#!

The 2nd vid, with Ryan, is indeed an excellent proto for campaign ads. This guy is very good on camera, projects sincerity for a very odd reason in DC – he’s actually sincere. He’s a media natural. The content was powerful too, especially the first minute.

As I listened I imagined Dive! Dive! Dive! sirens going off over at the DNC.

Paul Ryan is key on budget, economic policy and he also understands that sound money, foreign policy, tax policy, trade policy and immigration policy are also key to a robust return to American prosperity.

I expect that by the time we get to the convention there will significant insight into these other key elements of a Romney cabinet…

God Bless America -you can’t keep no hoax-n-chains on me

I’ve heard that Fareed Zakaria is working on the Dems’ first major response, copying and pasting Andrea Mitchell furiously.

Meh. I like Ryan but this doesn’t change my mind. And no, I’m not alone here. There are many of us who have looked at Romney’s record, who his advisers are and said “no.” Not a chance. Let’s face it, Ryan as VP is pretty meaningless.

I think he took Boehner’s advice, and picked a policy guy to augment Mitt’s already captivating charisma.

Jeez… What a bad choice in this era of non and mis-information.

http://thefinereport.com/2012/08/romney-picks-ryan-as-vp/

Michelle Malkin has made this noteworthy observation concerning Ryan’s speech. She considers the following his best statement:

“We will not replace our founding principles, we will reapply them.”

Let’s see how this plays out.
Andrea Mitchell’s protestations based upon who knows what?

Michelle Malkin’s assertions with plenty of Ryan’s history as a foundation.

Sign of what’s to come?

Special inspector general Barofsky just released his book “Bailout”. He lays bare the corruption of this administration in handling TARP.

“Barofsky discloses how, in serving the interests of the banks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would funnel vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and would have allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability, while repeatedly fighting Barofsky’s efforts to put the necessary fraud protections in place.”

The harder fiscal choices we face might need to be highlighted with a dark background … the abject corruption that has been the Obama administration.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bailout

(I think that link gets you there thru this site, in case someone buys it)

PAUL RYAN THREW GRANNY OFF A CLIFF!

Romney campaign spokeswomen Andrea Saul responds:

“Had Rep. Ryan thrown granny off the cliff in Massachusetts, she would have fallen into the arms of Romneycare, and her injuries treated free of charge.”

[...] Via Legal Insurrection. [...]

This is shaping up as the starkest contrast of visions since the 1984 Reagan-Mondale contest.

(I say “shaping up” with a wary eye on the RINOs on the campaign staff.)

Which Way, America?

(A) The way of the Founders/Framers
or
(B) The way of the EU/USSR/UN model

There’s no middle road. Moving toward a “compromising center” always means abandoning America’s founding principles. In this case (A) ALWAYS yields to (B); NEVER the other way. The pattern of “compromise” moves in one direction only, toward that of more government.

Do we want freedom FROM government via limited, constitutional government whereby government itself is bound by law, the way of the Framers, or do we want total government. Madison (Fed. 51) put it this way, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

Rather than government being dependent on the people, as Madison et alia had hoped, today we witness Obama and his crowd of leftists (including all historical lefties from Wilson, FDR, LBJ, et alia) inverting the Framers’ ideal to the point that the people, and as many as possible, must be made dependent on the government which will then go after the producers (“tax the rich” is only one of their many shibboleths) with a vengeance, a taste of which has been given to us beginning on 01/20/09.

Ryan is a pointer to the Framers’ vision.

Looks like the Romney camp’s emasculation of Ryan has begin.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/internal-talking-points-romney-will-push-his-own-budget-proposalnot-paul-ryans-plan/

That didn’t take long.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/romney-raises-1-2-million-in-three-hours-since-of-pick-of-paul-ryan/

Wow. Prof. Bill has the BIG bucks…!!!

Heh!

Now if only Romney and Ryan would swap positions on the ticket. Then I would be excited.

“This is not a pick for suburban moms, this is not a pick for women.”

I think they mean to say, “This is not a pick for liberal suburban moms who think abortion is the most important issue of any campaign, this is not a pick for liberal women who think abortion is the most important issue of any campaign.”

Because there are many of us who are very very happy with Ryan as the VP pick.

Professor,

FYI … Michelle Malkin linked her lead post today about Paul Ryan to your website but the link is dead …

http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/05/lessons-of-ny-26

Anybody got a pool going on Wall Street’s open/close for Monday? Romney’s raised $1.2M four hours after Ryan’s speech. That’s quite the R.O.I. !

I’m generally quite mild mannered; but there is something about Andrea Mitchell that sets me off. I hope I never run into that old hag.

Anrea Mitchell is still re-running the 1992 election in her head.

I have been following LI for a couple of years now and have never felt compelled to comment. As a suburban mom I am thrilled with the Ryan pick. Andrea Mitchell has no idea what she is talking about. The ‘Sex and the City’ types who want free birth control aren’t happy with the pick, but they were never voting for Romney anyway. The soccer moms that I know are very worried about our children’s ability to prosper in the future and none of us buy this war on women garbage.

We have a society whose government has increasingly adopted parasitic practices. By doing so, it engorges itself on the “life-blood” of what has made this such a great nation. When we examine the patient (our nation), we readily see the reasons for the anemia. (You know them – we hear it nearly daily).

Many people would be in favor of radical procedures to affect a cure. Not only am I uncertain as to whether this is possible, I am uncertain as to whether this would be wise. To bring about the desired health of our country requires a surgical skill few possess.

Our choices are few. We do nothing and we’ll become a national California-like state. Or, we continue to listen to the “snake oil” salespersons, who have yet to demonstrate how their product lives up to their claims. (They remind me of the bloodletters of old. Yes, they agree, the patient isn’t getting any better. However, if we drain a bit more blood, that ought to help. No! The patient isn’t getting any better, and is actually getting worse, because of your bloodletting). These two choices won’t do any longer.

We turn, then, to our third choice. Though they (Romney/Ryan) might not be the ideal in terms of background, training, and experience; they are about the health of the patient and will work, I believe, diligently to that end. Perhaps they recognize that too radical of procedures would be as bad as the ones of the last 3 1/2 years or none at all.

Should sufficient numbers recognize between now and November that they might not like the diagnosis, yet without the choice of the third option, the prognosis is dire, dire indeed. Sure the medicine, like cod liver oil, may not be so pleasant, it, nevertheless, may bring about the restoration of, at least, some health. So, over time, the patient may return to a robust health.

To allow another four (4) years of treating the patient as in the past is to commit ourselves to a slow, painful existence in which the parasite keeps the host alive only so it will have a life source. Can we honestly allow this any longer?

It’s not a pick for suburban moms or women who know that believing the Democrat lies about the Republicans’ E Coli Club and about enriching millionaires at the expense of Granny and 30-year olds demanding free contraception is a recipe for America’s suicide.

Couple of meaningless observations:

First, the footage showing the girls with the lemonade stand at the 1:00 mark is the same footage used in the Scott Brown ad. I’m assuming the same producer/film maker is behind both ads.

Second, with the possible exception of Paul Krugman, it’s hard to imagine a high profile, influential, opinion shaper who has written more angry and irrational words about Republicans in the past 20 years than Frank Rich. So using Frank Rich’s image and his own words (at the 0:16 mark) describing Ryan as “the intellectual of the conservative movement” in a Republican campaign ad is more satisfying than sex. I need a cigarette now, and I don’t even smoke.

Hot damn! That is a GREAT commercial (and generally I hate political commercials).

I’ll be honored to help finance running it.

The AFF ad is great.

The current crisis was predictable and, in fact, was predicted. From what I recall, there were even Republicans who attempted to raise an alarm, but to no avail. Granted, the emergent crisis is even more obvious, but that does not remove responsibility for the present crisis, irrespective of individuals, cooperatives, and policies which have served to exacerbate it. The key is to recognize that dreams of instant gratification cannot be fulfilled in the real world without consequences.

mitchell,typical liberal agenda,theres no american women that will vote for romney/ryan,theres no blacks that will vote for romney/ryan,theres no latinos that will vote for romney/ryan,theres no one in the lgbt community going to vote for romney/ryan.
the above mentioned groups are americans,(we know you don’t reconize them without the hypen), but they are all americans,(for the most part),and they’ve lived this diaster the last 4 yrs..
i think theres enough americans wanting to keep it america,and knowing romney/ryan is their best,(only choice this time),to keep america alive for the future.

Ryan is already above water with seniors. That ought to smoke up the lib collective brain.

No. They will just deny reality until they can fabricate a push poll that says Ryan hates seniors and is mean to fluffy bunnies.

When reality does not suit Obama’s purposes he just makes up a new one.