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WHY MITT ROMNEY PICKED PAUL RYAN

8/13/2012

 
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Why Mitt Romney Picked Paul Ryan as V.P.
    The choice of Paul Ryan to be Romney’s VP is a shocker. Romney never commits to anything. Ryan is over committed. No one knows where Romney stands. Ryan stands with the so-called Objectivists, followers of Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (pseudonym, Ayn Rand), glommed onto by those hoping to justify greed, selfishness, and anarchy. It’s as if the “greed is good” speech by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, the ravings of a corrupt cheat, had morphed into a manifesto of all who seek to justify their own ruthless self-interest.
    “Conservative” means, care for, keep, husband, preserve. The frontier farmer was husbandman of the land. Our Founding Fathers envisioned a caring cooperating country. Every village had a Commons, land that belonged to and was used by all. Driving through American towns and villages today, almost every one has a park in its center, its old Commons. In Boston it’s still called “The Commons.” The spirit of the Commons survives in laws meant to help everyone. Paul Ryan would destroy our spiritual Commons; he would:
    * Privatize Social Security,
    * Reduce Medicare and Medicaid, making them voucher programs
    * Destroy the safety-net for the aged and poor,
    * Slash money for education, roads, research, green energy, pollution, environmental protection, national parks, etc.
    * Cut taxes for the rich; shift the burden to the middle class
    * Destroy regulations that protect us from the abuses that wrecked the American economy and brought on the Bush Depression.
    Paul Ryan is a numbers guy, and so is Mitt Romney whose success in the world of capital management came from astute use of the technical analysis tools he learned at Harvard. But Romney realizes technical analysis won’t work in the irrational, hair-trigger emotional world of politics. And he knows in his heart he’d be terrible in that world, a worse president than that other businessman, Herbert Hoover, who just watched the country slip down the drain after the Great Depression. Today, with a global economy and atom bombs, such a president would endanger civilization.
    Romney is running so bad a campaign, you have to wonder if part of him wants to lose. But it’s not all in his hands. Billions are being spent by superpacs to produce cajoling, pandering ads with scurrilous attacks against Obama.  So Mitt picked a running mate in the mold of Sarah Palin (John McCain loves Ryan.)
    If Mitt is running against himself. Paul Ryan as VP is a brilliant choice. .


Martha
8/13/2012 10:38:35 am

Thanks for these reflections, Stuart. I did get a laugh out of Romney campaigning for the senior vote in Florida today. I hope our nation's elderly voters can see all this as clearly as you do.

traCY link
8/13/2012 02:32:14 pm

Politicians run the world. Artists make art.
The rest of us write about them, as something to do and feel good.

Dalen cole
8/14/2012 07:43:16 am

As you know, I am an optimist. But for the first time I feel disenfranchised -- the money, the lies. Romney scares me -- the lack of any core. Ryan does too. But when I hear Julietta talk about the future I know I must remain hopeful and do everything I can do insure her future. Thanks, dear Stuart, for helping me in this regard.

Stephanie link
8/15/2012 09:16:57 am

I'm trusting/hoping this is the best thing that could happen -- to defeat Romney. It gives the democrats a simple theme -- saving medicare, medicaid & social security -- that many people seem to need. I think Romney's motivation was to make a 'strong stand' -- thus a kind of defensive move to prove he's not a waffler.

anna cherry link
9/25/2013 12:11:13 pm

Found this from the Weebly directory, great blog.


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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
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