Ryan Speech Reaction (With Video of Full Speech)
Paul Ryan has just finished addressing the GOP convention as he formally accepted the nomination for Vice President.
Personally I wasn’t real taken with the speech. It was ok but it struck me as pretty standard cookie cutter kind of rhetoric, but then that seems to be pretty much the norm these days. Most of the speeches this week have been so and I suspect most speeches next week will be the same.
I was also struck that he seems to have the same problem that Romney does in appearing to be natural in his speaking style, his hand gestures and even his jokes all felt like they were the result of stage directions rather than real spontaneity.
I’ll be updating this post as reaction comes in from around the web but for now please feel free to chime in with your own views.
Penn Live has gathered some of the social media reactions, from good to bad.
Both Politico and ABC news felt the speech was better than I thought
Perhaps not surprisingly the Huffington Post was not as impressed.
VIDEO OF HIS FULL SPEECH:
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Really? I thought it was a great speech. He was a bit stiff at first but then his delivery improved a great deal. I actually had the opposite reaction to his gestures- i was thinking that this was a much more natural and informal speaking style more fitting with his generation as contrasted with the political speeches i grew up with. That also reminded me that i recently realized that Ryan is the first person on a major party ticket who is younger than myself…yikes!
Anyway, i don’t pretend to know how unaffiliated voters will have received Ryan’s speech but personally i thought he hit the right notes and did it well.
Well CS it just goes to show how different people react to the same thing.
I thought it was sort of stiff myself, but a wide range of opinions is always good.
Standard Boiler Point – You can’t take someone seriously when they say they are going to reduce taxes, increase defense spending and decrease the deficit. This is the adolescent economics of Ayn Rand.
Being an extremist, Ryan could only throw red meat to the pack. Preaching to the choir is his only purpose in this campaign. Romney is the one that as to come out more moderate… if he comes out talking like Ryan, he will just drive away more independents.
I have a really, really hard time listening to anyone who decries his opponent not taking responsibility and then pins actions onto that opponent that do not fit. to whit: 1) Factory closing cited closed during the Bush adm. and Obama never promised it would stay open. 2) Ryan cited Obama for not accepting a deficit reduction plan, but voted against the plan Obama did not accept. 3) Ryan cited the downgrade of America’s credit rating (once again blaming Obama), yet the agency that downgraded the US cited Republicans’ intransigence on raising taxes and the debt ceiling debacle of last year (brought on by House Republicans under the banner of Paul Ryan at the time) as the reasons for the downgrade.
The Romney campaign has stated that they will not have their campaign dictated by fact checkers. The correct translation of that statement is: the Romney/Ryan campaign intends to lie whenever it suits their purposes.
I will not vote for a Party or Campaign that dismisses reality in such a way.
BTW, Ayn Rand cautioned rather heavily against doing so also…
Mr. Ryan has used this story before, first blaming the Obama administration for the $4/gallon gas prices causing the plant to close (the plant made SUV’s), now saying Obama made a promise to keep the plant open which is patently false.
What Obama actually said, 11 months before the plant closed, was “I believe IF (my emphasis) our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years,…”
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120817/POLITICS01/208170356#ixzz252gFAxfk
GM didn’t re-tool, and we’ll never know if the Bush administration would have given them the assistance to do so anyway, so the plant closed in December 2008 before the Obama administration could do anything to help them as they helped the auto industry save thousands of jobs later.
I just hope Obama Inc rolls out the same number of falsehoods…maybe more. Reps will scream in the same way that Dems are now…but no one will listen.
“I will not vote for a Party or Campaign that dismisses reality in such a way.”
Seriously. Lets also not leave out the wild, we’ll call it a mis-characterization, of the $716 Billion that Obama himself “cut” out of medicare for the seniors. When you intentionally engage in the spreading of misinformation you are lying to the people and should be ashamed. Also, Santorum was beating the drums about how Obama removed the work requirement for welfare in states. That is a flat out lie.
@slamfu- the welfare work requirement claims are far more egregious.
On Medicare, the GOP claims are not false, it’s just half of the story since GOP plan s like Ryans also cut. They do it in different manners and reasonable people can disagree over which way is best, but there’s no doubt that cuts are coming because current spending kevels aren’t sustainable.
CStanley, I think moving “Medicare” to private health care companies is massively different than move the Medicare into a different government program.
I went out on a date with a girl that worked for an HMO. Her job was to find ways to cut services for customers, if not find a way to get sick people knocked out of the program. needless to say… it was just one date.
SL: good judgment call, imho. Yes, Obama believed there were savings to be obtained in Medicare (mostly through the amount paid to certain providers), and he planned to use those savings to help defray the cost of ACA. Ryan used the same values of cuts to Medicare (really failures to increase spending levels as quickly as the likely costs would rise), but his budget planned to use the money to give tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.
SL, so there’s an example of what I said, that reasonable people can certainly disagree with the method that Ryan proposes to cut Medicare expenditures. Still doesn’t make Ryan’s mention of ACA cuts any less factual.