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Paul Ryan was their President already. Why make it obvious?
Every single one of them would be a robotic signatory for whatever the Republican House could get past the Senate and onto the desk of whatever Republican rubberstamp figurehead made it into the Oval Office.
And since Paul Ryan rules the Republican budgetary world, his word would be law. Not Mitt Romney's. Not Rick Santorum's. Not Newt Gingrich's. Paul Ryan's. He's their man.
Insiders knew this. Democrats worth their salt knew this already, and have been preparing for the possibility of Republicans attempting to bypass the filibuster to pass the Ryan budget to end Medicare. Republicans knew it also, and knew that Democrats would try mightily to tie their nominal presidential candidate to the deeply unpopular Ryan budget. Democrats on the ground know that it's not only important to re-elect the President who, whatever his other faults might be, would be the only roadblock between a Republican Congress and the passage of the Ryan budget. It's also important to do whatever it takes to win back the House and put the gavel back in Nancy Pelosi's hands.
So the only question remains: why did they choose to make it so obvious that Ryan commands their ship? Why give Congressional Democratic candidates an easy blunt instrument with which to nationalize an election in choppy economic waters against their Republican opponents?
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Discover why Republicans chose to unveil their true king so early, and you may discover where Romney and friends are at their weakest.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-was-their-president-already.html
And since Paul Ryan rules the Republican budgetary world, his word would be law. Not Mitt Romney's. Not Rick Santorum's. Not Newt Gingrich's. Paul Ryan's. He's their man.
Insiders knew this. Democrats worth their salt knew this already, and have been preparing for the possibility of Republicans attempting to bypass the filibuster to pass the Ryan budget to end Medicare. Republicans knew it also, and knew that Democrats would try mightily to tie their nominal presidential candidate to the deeply unpopular Ryan budget. Democrats on the ground know that it's not only important to re-elect the President who, whatever his other faults might be, would be the only roadblock between a Republican Congress and the passage of the Ryan budget. It's also important to do whatever it takes to win back the House and put the gavel back in Nancy Pelosi's hands.
So the only question remains: why did they choose to make it so obvious that Ryan commands their ship? Why give Congressional Democratic candidates an easy blunt instrument with which to nationalize an election in choppy economic waters against their Republican opponents?
...
Discover why Republicans chose to unveil their true king so early, and you may discover where Romney and friends are at their weakest.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-was-their-president-already.html
