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Romney Boldly Picks Paul Ryan for VP

The Pick has been made and it wasn't my first choice but it is a bold and exciting pick. This past Saturday in Virginia on the U.S.S. Wisconsin Mitt Romney selected 7 term Wisconsin Congressman and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Congressman Ryan is young at the age of 42, Conservative, has fresh ideas proven with his bold budget plan, and a family man. His selection has electrified a base that was on the verge of falling asleep and tuning out Romney, it reassures conservatives that Romney will govern boldly. I wasn't entirely sold on Romney or this pick at first but then I heard Ryan speak and was impressed. Now am enthusiastic about this ticket. Romney might not have been the best choice for the top of the ticket but with Paul Ryan in as VP it has revitalized a campaign that was heading towards defeat. The Democrats have reason to be afraid of this pick because Paul Ryan represents a district which Obama won in 2008, and every Democrat since Dukakis has carried yet Ryan has managed to win handily 7 times in this heavily Democrat district by picking up two thirds of the Democrat vote, so clearly he has cross over appeal and that must terrify Obama and company.

Already the Left is in full attack mode trying to paint Paul Ryan as a "Right Wing Radical that is too extreme for America", that he is the "architect of a plan that dismantles Medicare/Medicaid and throws granny over a cliff", that Ryan "hates women because he would defund Planned Parenthood.", that Paul Ryan "would destroy education with draconian cuts to pell grants for college students." of course "all while preserving those "evil" tax cuts for the rich." Liberal pundits proclaim that Obama got the match up he wanted because now it moves the debate to the future and making it a choice election rather than about Obama's record. Translation they assume that now with Paul Ryan on the ticket it won't be a referendum on Obama's record, why? Because Obama's record is abysmal and they know it, that is why they have made all these very negative, very personal, and very distasteful attacks on Romney anything to take discussion of Obama and his record. Well I have a newsflash for them, Paul Ryan represents their worst nightmare. Why? because he is the guy  that can pick apart Obamacare line by line with numbers and expose Obama as the epic failure and the socialist he is. So yes it will be a referendum on Obama but that wasn't enough. Romney needed to present an alternative vision to Obama's and with Paul Ryan a bold reformer on the ticket he has done that, now he has left Obama and his cronies nothing but negative smear attacks because they have no plan other than what they have already done which is unpopular. In my opinion Obama and Biden are shaking in their boots at Ryan's selection because this guy is intelligent, articulate, has energized conservatives, and is capable of ripping them apart. They know they just lost Wisconsin, that is why Obama, Biden, the Democrats, and their media friends are scrambling to frame the Ryan selection as a blunder, a mistake, a sign of Romney being extreme, a concession, etc. And they have already resumed their lies about the Ryan Budget, with the same old playbook of smear, lie, distort, and attack, it is predictable and we are ready for it.

Romney in picking Ryan has shifted the debate to big ideas and the issues primarily the economy, the budget, and entitlement reform issues Romney wants to talk about so he can make this election a referendum on Obama's failed policies while at the same time presenting America with his alternative vision. Obama on the other hand has proven that he doesn't want to talk about his record and will keep this campaign in the gutter with heinous, outlandish, ugly attacks because he has no plan. So it will be a campaign that wants to talk about the issues versus a campaign that wants to accuse the opponent of throwing granny over a cliff or of causing a woman to get cancer and die. Americans want jobs, and accusing Romney/Ryan of killing grandma doesn't exactly tell voters what Obama's plan is to bring back the jobs. Scare tactics and fear mongering is not a plan, it is an act of a desperate campaign that can't run on its record and has no plan.

America will have a choice; leaders with a bold vision and bold ideas to make America Great again or the status quo of failed policies, incompetent leadership, with nothing but attack and blame to offer. The choice is simple I choose Romney/Ryan 2012 and the "Great Opportunity Party".