Romney Campaign Trying To Inch Away from “Owning” the Ryan Budget
There have been a lot of signs that since since naming Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been trying to inch himself away from Ryan’s controversial budget. GOPers and Romney supporters insist that’s not true but just watch this exchange between CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and Romney surrogate John Sununu over Medicare.
I suspect Sununu’s comments are not exactly what The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and other conservatives who were ecstatic over Romney picking Ryan had in mind. It suggests Romney a)picked Ryan to woo and quiet his party’s right wing b)is trying to now move to — get ready, here it comes — the center and (get ready) moderate his support of the Ryan budget as voiced during the primaries.
I don’t usually embed MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, but this segment does have a lot of good info pulled together on how GOPers are scrambling to put some distance between the budget of someone who was called a “rock star” by conservative media this weekend. There does seem to be a big heap of conditional love at work here:
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John Sanunu is such a slimy political hack. He knows he’s lying.
Either Romney likes Ryan and his ideas and values, or Romney doesn’t like Ryan and his ideas and values. If Romney doesn’t agree with the Ryan budget, which is such a central theme of Ryan and illustrates Ryan’s values, then why did Romney pick Ryan?
Does Romney believe that independent voters will really take Romney at his word when he suddenly backs away from the Ryan budget as Romney’s poll numbers stagnate or decrease?
Picking Ryan and then moving to the center is akin to getting a Whopper with cheese & large fries and then getting a Diet Coke.
Neither are fooling anyone except the one doing it.
Mitt owns that budget, along with the rest of the Rep party. The damn thing was passed twice in the House. The rep extremists in the House will now be on full display for an American public that would have never known about that budget without Ryan on the ticket.
The Ryan pick is going to cost Reps more than just the white house.
But maybe this will result in a wake up call for the party. We need a strong “big tent” Rep party, not the lunatics we have now.
SL
You are right; the entire nation needs a strong Rep. party, and maybe a couple of other strong parties. When voters only have one behemoth party to rely on, the circumstances for tyranical rule have been set in motion. The individual has enough burdens living a modestly comfortable existence without more apprehension of interference from above.