Ryan the Right Choice

Four years ago, when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, I could hardly curb my enthusiasm.  When the announcement came early Saturday morning that Mitt Romney had chosen Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, I was equally pumped.

For us conservatives, Romney usually is quite efficient at delivering good speeches, but his commitment to the principles we subscribe to require us to extend a leap of faith.  By bringing in Ryan, who has long championed conservative principles, this seemed to be a move to offer a sense of security to his potential administration.

More importantly, as we have written on many occasion, Ryan is the smartest guy in the room when it comes to understanding the most important issue of the day; the financial crisis our country is in.  While others sit around running the mouth, Ryan put forth a bold plan to put America back on a path to prosperity.

Ryan and his plan has many critics, as sound thinkers join the progressive big government advocates as opponents, but the Ryan roadmap provides a basis for action to upset the current path progressives of both parties have put us on. While critics hammer Ryan, I applaud his bold leadership.

Ryan, a protege of the great Jack Kemp, has a double major in Economics and Political Science from Miami of Ohio and follows the economic theories advanced by the great Milton Friedman.  Ryan spoke with the MacIver Institute recently on the 100th birthday of Friedman regarding the dismal economic status of America under President Obama. Take a listen:


This morning, at a campaign event at The NASCAR Institute in Mooresville, NC, NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip provided the opening greeting for a Romney-Ryan rally, which had the men flanked by a pair of Sprint Cup stock cars. Since the addition of Ryan to the ticket, I have noticed the rhetoric of Romney has sharpened. Once you dodge the non-sensible Democratic attacks, such as portraying Mitt Romney as a felon, the framing of the debate is simplistic. As Ryan and Romney spell out, the choice is quite clear.  Here is the deal:



Of course the Democrats would be out attacking whoever was chosen with lies and innuendo, but the choice of Ryan gives the Romney campaign street credibility that it is most serious about attacking the critical issue of our time, the financial disaster we find ourselves in due to very poor economic decision making by both parties; parties that lost sight of the principles of governance our nation was founded upon.

The Obama campaign will label Ryan, and thus Romney, as radicals who will end Medicare as we know it and punish the middle class.  For anyone with a lick of common sense, it is obvious this is far from the case.  Meanwhile, the push by the Obama administration to encourage welfare is immoral and seeks to rob citizens of their identity, crashing of the system to ensure those in need turn to government for assistance, losing control of their lives due to their dependencies.

Our growing entitlements are sinking our economy and are quite simply unsustainable.  Medicare as we know it should end, replaced with a program that can support itself, most likely through privatization, with the changes not forced upon anyone currently 55 or over.

Common sense applications to fiscal problems that threaten our national and economic security, utilizing free markets and free enterprise to encourage and support entrepreneurship and risk taking is representative of the vision of Romney and Ryan; helping to bring the promise of the great experiment of America back from near ruin.

I am all for it!