It didn't take long for the leftist meme to take form and the attacks to begin once the rumor was confirmed that Paul Ryan would be Mitt Romney's pick for VP. On the eve of Romney's announcement of Ryan as his VP choice this morning, the New Yorker launched a preemptive strike on congressman Paul Ryan's selection as Romney's vice presidential choice.
The attacks are no surprise, but the choice of attack is interesting if not predictable. This is another example of the Pee Wee Herman mentality of the left in my observation. "I know what I am but what about you?" That's how Pee Wee use to handle criticism and it seems to be the left's favored response to just about anything that challenges their version of reality.
The left will cast aside any memory of four years ago when conservatives were challenging the fact that Barack Obama had absolutely no experience or qualifications to be president. And in the face of the history of weakness and absence of experience by their own candidate, they will attack and assail Paul Ryan as if he is some form of alien mutation who is completely unacceptable to them as a candidate.
About the only part of it that they have gotten right in their assessment, is that Ryan and Romney are completely unacceptable to the left. As for the rest of America, the growing momentum of opinion seems to be Romney is more than suitable to replace the present amateur in chief and chief apologist who has inhabited the people's house for the last three and a half years.
The people are speaking and they are telling Barack Obama to pack his trash and call the movers, because come January, the lease is up. Watch for the left to panic in the next month as the conventions approach.
If tonight’s reporting is correct, and if Mitt Romney really does announce at 9 A.M. Saturday that Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is his running mate, Romney has made the most daring decision of his political career.
After spending weeks looking into Ryan’s history for The New Yorker, visiting his home town, and interviewing him twice, I am genuinely surprised that Romney chose him. First, let’s tally the risks of a Ryan pick.
For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience. Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.
But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.
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