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Emerging from a rough few weeks and down in the polls, conservative commentators are fretting that unless Mitt Romney gets specific and bold about his agenda, hes going to lose on November 6.
But the Romney campaign has been outwardly defensive. Over the weekend, Paul Ryan rebuffed pundits in his own party, saying it is simply the nature of conservative punditry to complain.
A, we still have a ways to go. We still have a lot left that were planning on doing, Ryan said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published Sunday. B, I think thats just what conservatives do by nature. I think thats just the nature of conservative punditry is to do that to kind of complain about any imperfection they might see.
Ryan also took issue with criticism from both sides of the aisle that Romney has declined to outline the specifics of his policy proposals, most notably his tax reform plan. As push-back, Ryan offered his own reputation as a serious policy wonk.
[H]is very selection of me as his running mate, the guy with all the specifics, whos put out all these solutions on the table, Ryan said, shows you very clearly Mitt Romneys not afraid of making big decisions, making tough decisions, putting specifics out there.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)livetohike
(22,688 posts)long that you were waving around swatting flies with?
This guy is so full of himself.
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)for his woes!!
Silent3
(15,909 posts)Most of the time conservatives can't stand anything that looks like "a sign of weakness" and will bend over backward to put a positive spin on bad news about fellow conservatives.
Things have to get pretty grim before they're publicly criticizing their own.