Be Careful What You Wish For, Democrats.

Be careful what you wish for, Democrats.
The first attack ad since Paul Ryan was introduced as the vice presidential suggests that team Obama has taken the bait. If they want to want to debate the future of the country, what kind of country it will be, and how it will honor its many financial commitments, fine. Bring it on! Paul Ryan is the Ryan budget and when Romney chose Ryan he chose the bold Ryan budget.



Shall we debate the future of the entire county or the personal contraceptive needs of Sandra Fluke? Is the election to be about Chick-fil-A and Bain Capital or the limits on government as demanded by the constitution? If the party of special interest constituencies wants to debate government's role in society and the underlying role of majority rule have at it. By choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney is giving the country the debate and the election it deserves. The conservative flag has been planted! Let the battle begin.

The coming conservative reform in the persons of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has a unique style. Ryan in many ways has a New Frontier aura to him; a new, exciting, brainy, Catholic family man. And don't dismiss his appeal to younger voters, the young upward mobile suburbanites of both sexes who normally lean to the Democrats. His choice not to wear a tie to his introduction reminds one of AOL founder Steve Case and exudes a trendy coolness. Romney and Ryan in some ways project an image to independents similar to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, that of a pair of policy wonks who live and breath budgets and balance sheets, very much in the mainstream. Thanks to genetic luck Romney and Ryan appear much younger and more energetic than graying Obama and plugs Biden. They are made for television candidates.

Who could have guessed 4 years ago that true blue, Wisconsin would be the geographical center of the Republican Party? Now with a vice presidential candidate, a popular and nationally known governor and a national party chairman Wisconsin has supplanted Texas in the Republican Party. Suddenly Wisconsin is extremely iffy for Obama. Quoting a PPP poll taken about a month ago;

"A stronger vice presidential choice for Romney may be Representative Paul Ryan, who
brings Romney to within a point of the president, at 47% to 46%. This movement comes
almost entirely from an increase in support within Romney’s own party, as his margin
jumps 7% among voters describing themselves as somewhat conservative and 5% among
very conservative voters."

Expect somewhat conservative and very conservative voters outside of Wisconsin to act the same. In the meantime Obama must now spend even more scarce resources to hold the upper Midwest. I'll predict the Romney-Ryan campaign will see a spontaneous surge in small dollar donations as the conservative wing of the party jumps on board.
Again, let's have this fight! I like the odds!