Looking at Romney-Ryan

Political Wire   "I believe my record of getting things done in Congress will be a very helpful complement to Governor Romney's executive and private sector success outside Washington. I have worked closely with Republicans as well as Democrats to advance an agenda of economic growth, fiscal discipline, and job creation."
-- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), in excerpts of a speech accepting Mitt Romney's offer to be his vice presidential running mate.

Schakowsky* vs. Paul Ryan on CNBC  (Video)
* Called a Marxist by The Astute Bloggers  " Schakowsky claimed every dollar of unemployment insurance creates a $1.63 in growth.

"Ryan said we should be going gangbusters then instead of at 10% unemployment and 3.6 million jobs lost.
"Schakowsky's talking about debt, blames Bush. Says we need jobs."

BACKYARDCONSERVATIVE posts: Ryan Roadmap for America's Future.

Remember this? Ryan Takes Obama to the Woodshed  Via Warning Signs

(Above)  Paul Ryan takes on both Obama and Biden in a prototype of the coming campaign.

Infidel Bloggers Alliance is unhappy with the choice, to say the least. And this is what we can expect from the left.

Charles Krauthammer: “I Think Paul Ryan Has That Reagan-Like Quality”   One more reason we faithfully watch Fox News Special Report every evening.

Ryan Does Not Have to Drop House Race  "The Washington Post reports Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) can appear on the ballot "as both a candidate for the House and for vice president. If the Romney-Ryan presidential ticket is not successful, but he wins his congressional race, Ryan can keep his seat. If the national ticket wins the White House and Ryan holds his House seat, a special election would be held to replace him in the House."

NRO; Obama Campaign Starts Attacking Ryan  "And now the Obama campaign has released a site that calls Romney-Ryan “the go back team” and features this attack video:"
Go find it yourself.

Goldberg: The Pros and Cons of the Ryan Pick  "What does this do to Paul Ryan? One of the things about the man that garners so much support and admiration is that he resists the corrupting forces of politics. Playing at this level will be a test for him."

Andrew McCarthy discusses Paul Ryan and the Muslim Brotherhood  ...."In particular, I was contrasting the difference between the way he treated the guests he famously took pains to invite to two of his speeches: Paul Ryan and the Muslim Brotherhood."

"More interesting than the speech, though, was the guest list. The Obama administration made a point of inviting prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood. And they didn’t get the Paul Ryan treatment.... The ramifications rumbled through both Egypt and the United States."

And this guy Obama has high likability numbers? Must be because the TV networks like him and promote Obama in many shows, in ways some subtle and some not.

PAUL RYAN’S PLAN TO SAVE MEDICARE

Paul Ryan as seen by
 conservatives

Ryan as depicted by the
Democrats

Human Events  "With the announcement that Human Events Conservative of the Year for 2011 Rep.Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will be Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president, the Obama campaign will certainly begin drumming up the false narrative that Medicare, as we know it, will cease to exist if Republicans are to take back the White House. As Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan lead the charge on the plan of revamping Medicare and placing it on a sustainable and sensible path."      


However the predictable left says: Paul Ryan Is Not a Vice President. Paul Ryan Is a Fake.
How predictable? Here is a quote from this Esquire article:

One day, some years from now, I'm going to figure out how Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, managed to fool so many people for so long.

Nice family you have there, Congressman. Be a shame if something happened to your children's dad along about October, wouldn't it?

Atheists Demand Massachusetts High School Revise its State’s History

Godfather Politics  "The atheist organization The Freedom From Religion Foundation is demanding that the Wayland High School band “stop playing ‘God Bless America’ at school functions because it violates separation of church and state.” The Massachusetts’ school officials are ignoring the group’s threats, and for good reason."
...."They are like George Orwell’s 1984 character Winston Smith who works “for the Ministry of Truth as an editor, revising historical records to make the past conform to the ever-changing party line.” "

AP SOURCE: ROMNEY PICKS RYAN FOR RUNNING MATE: Drudge

Is his family ready?

AP  "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a Republican with knowledge of the development. They will appear together Saturday in Norfolk, Va., at the start of a four-state bus tour to introduce the newly minted GOP ticket to the nation."  

How Paul Ryan became the intellectual leader of the Republican party  "And yet Ryan is smiling. It’s not the phony grin of a politician seeking votes, or the half-smirk of a charlatan putting one over on a group of rubes. It’s a real smile—the eager smile of someone excited to share important news. Paul Ryan believes he has the solution to these problems. And after a long and often lonely fight to convince his fellow Republicans that they should be talking about these issues, Ryan is succeeding." 

Smearing the Tea Party; Left-wing opportunism and the Sikh-temple shootings

The murderer

Michelle Malkin  "The feds engaged in scare-mongering about unnamed groups and individuals “antagonistic toward the new presidential administration” and “those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.” Code words for the stimulus-opposing, bailout-protesting tea-party movement. Duh. For good measure, the report tossed in vague references to pro-lifers, Second Amendment activists, and border-security advocates, too."....
"In the warped world of James Rainey, MSNBC Neanderthals, and George Soros operatives, every conservative is a right-wing terrorist. But there are no left-wing terrorists — only misguided kids whose social-justice agenda simply went awry. The bias reeks like an Occupy camp in the dog days of August." (emphasis added)

DNC Planning Document: We Need To Find A Gay Soldier Who Helped Save Life Of Straight Soldier During Firefight For Our Convention…

Via Weasel Zippers :

Politico  The most innovative — and harshest — element of the preliminary program is a nightly “social contrast” in which two people describe their personal experience with a hot-button issue — one person lauding the president’s actions, the other taking Romney to task.

....

"But the plans show organizers intent on steering clear of controversy as well. For the gay marriage social contrast, for instance, the documents state the participants should be “not a gay couple” — but a “parent and gay son or daughter.”

"Other examples: “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Gay soldier and fellow (straight) soldier who served together in Iraq or Afghanistan (ideally the straight soldier was helped by the gay soldier, i.e., medic, in fire fight) … Planned Parenthood: Husband who talks about how a PAP smear saved his wife’s life and his spouse … Immigration: Two young people from the same family, one who was born here, the other a few years older who was not … .”

More gender silliness; Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton ……

.. and the next war will be lost in the “gender neutral” toy department of Harrods.
Crusader Rabbit   "In the pictures the place looks like fairy land, but we don’t live in fairy land we have to grow up and live in the real world which is often quite a harsh place.

Gender neutrality is a modern heresy – boys need to grow to be men and girls to be women. But the moderns think that gender is a “social construct” and we are entirely interchangeable rather than designed to complement one another.

"If boys are not bought up to be men when the going gets tough and masculine virtue is required and found to be a rare commodity it is the end."

Harrods opened the doors to its first gender-neutral toy department    Also here.

Apparently Harrod's has been listening to these people. This author is a college freshman, er...fresh, um, person, which indicates to me "just out of high school"

Satire: Grimace Eliminated by McDonald's, No More Gender Neutral Characters  ".... McDonald’s issued a statement saying that “gender neutral characters are not going to be part of the McDonald’s family in the foreseeable future.” In addition, all gender specific characters will be given updated identity makeovers to enhance gender specific traits." 

Is there no limit to liberal silliness? Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen

"The idea is that the government and society should tolerate no distinctions at all between the sexes. This means on the narrow level that society should show sensitivity to people who don't identify themselves as either male or female, including allowing any type of couple to marry. But that’s the least radical part of the project. What many gender-neutral activists are after is a society that entirely erases traditional gender roles and stereotypes at even the most mundane levels.

'Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds'

Pat Buchanan: THE COST OF WINNING UGLY  "Mitt Romney gave up leadership of Bain Capital in 1999. The steel plant was closed in 2001. Soptic lost his health insurance, but his wife was still working and had hers. She lost her job and insurance in 2003. Her illness and cancer were discovered in 2006, when Romney was ending his fourth year as governor of Massachusetts.

"Was this ad the work of a rogue super PAC over which the Obama campaign had no control? Did the White House denounce the ad as unethical and malicious and wash its hands of it?

"By no means. The White House, through its cynical silence, has been complicit in this moral atrocity as it reaps the benefits of it.

....Mr. Hope and Change, the figure who once inspired millions, died a long time ago. In his stead stands a Chicago pol who barnstorms the country calling Republicans political lap dogs of millionaires and billionaires who refuse to pay their fair share of taxes.

In this campaign, Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds. Remarkable what a fear of defeat and a loss of power can do to a man.

Democrats in Congress, this one is for You

http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/

Unreal… Now the Far Left Is Trying to Tie Mitt Romney to El Salvador Death Squads

Krauthammer: The case against reelection (with a Rush Limbaugh update)

Rush Limbaugh; Hosanna! Krauthammer Gets It! Ideology!  

"It was before it really got ginned up, and I'm not going to mention any names because it won't matter.  Virtually every one of them that I spoke to said, "We gotta go after Obama's policies, Rush! We can't go after him.  We have to go after his policies," and that's what Romney is doing.  We're going after his policies (as Krauthammer says, his "stewardship"), because -- you're, right, Snerdley -- they were afraid (and still are) to go after Obama as what he really is." 

Charles Krauthammer  "There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas.

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

"The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of an additional $5 trillion of accumulated debt."

Krauthammer then moves on to the prospect of running against Obama's ideas:  "If Republicans want to win, Obama’s deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn’t-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but, even more important, to what’s in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it. (emphasis added)

"Four years of that and this is what you get.

"Make the case and you win the White House."

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

The Onion imagines Obama’s next attack ad: Did Romney kill JonBenet?

Hot Air  “I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”…

The Onion; 'Romney Murdered JonBenét Ramsey,' New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges

"Added Morris, “This ad very effectively reminds us that no child murderer has ever been elected into the White House.” "

The Romney Foreign Policy Team

William Kristol;  "Here's an intelligent if speculative piece by Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin about what a Romney administration foreign policy team could look like. Full disclosure: Yes, I was one of those with whom Josh spoke for this article. (Unlike everyone else, apparently, I didn't insist on speaking off the record—I suppose Josh didn't want to embarrass all the other shrinking violets by quoting only me by name, and that's of course fine.)

Former senator Jim Talent is widely regarded as the top choice for defense secretary in a potential Romney administration. …

For secretary of state, most advisors interviewed for this article said that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is under serious consideration at the top levels of the campaign. An "independent Democrat," Lieberman, who hasn't endorsed any presidential candidate this cycle, was almost chosen by Sen. John McCain to run as vice president on his 2008 ticket. …

Despite Team Obama's bluster, Romney’s foreign trip won’t show up In attack ads