2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumConservatives Want to ‘Let Ryan Be Ryan’ on Campaign Trail
Representative Paul D. Ryans selection as the Republican vice-presidential nominee is now yielding something Mitt Romneys campaign can do without: second-guessing about how Mr. Ryan is being put to use.
Through the halls of Congress and well beyond, a whisper campaign is bursting into the open: Rather than burden him with the usual constraints on a tickets No. 2 not to upstage or get ahead of the presidential nominee, let Ryan be Ryan and take a detailed, policy-heavy fight to President Obama and the Democrats.
They definitely need to use him more, said Rick Brumby, 52, a Republican voter who attended a rally for Mr. Ryan at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Saturday, suggesting that Mr. Ryan is better than Mr. Romney at avoiding gaffes and making the case to middle-class voters for Republican policies.
I like Romneys message, Mr. Brumby said, but I just think Ryan is the sharper of the two, and I think Ryan is more acclimated toward and relates better to the working class.
Conservatives initially saw the selection of Mr. Ryan as a hopeful sign that Mr. Romney had fully embraced their small-government agenda and eagerness to turn the election into a head-on clash of ideologies. But now, with Mr. Romney encountering a host of problems and Republicans openly fretting about the outcome in November, Mr. Ryans slow fade back into the secondary and sometimes afterthought role traditionally played by running mates has given conservatives a new outlet for frustration over the state of the race.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/us/politics/conservatives-want-ryan-to-campaign-more-aggressively.html?pagewanted=all
Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes INDEED
Deep13
(39,154 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Of course they also think if they had gone with a Palin/Ryan ticket, they'd be beating Obama by 20 points.
Because they don't realize how insane they look to everyone else.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)They should just let the smarmy lying asshole be himself.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)make my day!"
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)One can only hope, might uncover more of his lies.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)His tone of voice is whiny and tinny, his orating skills are choppy. He is not a pleasant person to listen to at. all. What wonderboy that moved millions?
Then there are his constant lies.....and unashamedly talking about how he and Romney will destroy M/M and SS.
How does anyone manage to sit still and listen to him for 30-40 minutes, I have no idea.