Schumer To Democrats: Pound Paul Ryan As A Fiscal ‘Fraud’
Senate Democrats’ chief policy and messaging strategist is telling his members to hammer Mitt Romney’s running mate Rep. Paul Ryan all the way to Election Day, not just as a Medicare slayer but also as a fiscal phony.
In a memo his office provided to TPM, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calls on Democrats to puncture the central Romney campaign narrative that the Republican ticket is serious about tackling the nation’s greatest fiscal challenges. The document reflects Democrats’ longstanding frustrations with the credibility Ryan has among Washington centrists as a sincere deficit hawk.
“If we can succeed in showing voters how Ryan is not really a deficit hawk at all — that he prioritizes conservative ideology over balancing the budget — the rationale for his selection is gone, and Romney’s political high-wire act will fail,” Schumer writes.
He provides several talking points to combat that narrative about Ryan:
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stumps were hired by them.. It was tooooo rehearsed.
