"How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More"

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How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More

by Robert Shrum at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/how-obama-will-cash-in-on-paul-ryan-medicare-taxes-education-more.html

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Ryan is an articulate, informed, self-proclaimed purveyor of “bold” ideas that also happen to be very bad, both substantively and politically. By the time the Obama campaign finishes with him, his specter, like hers, will become a red flag—in his case, a warning against selecting anyone who doesn’t conceal or soften his enmity to economic and social justice, but explicitly repudiates the safety net and basic protections for the middle class.

Mitt Romney put Ryan on the ticket. But the Democrats will put him through a thorough examination. More than any other vice-presidential nominee ever, he will be a front-and-center target. Romney, who so resembles T.S. Eliot’s “hollow [man] ... headpiece filled with straw,” will dissolve into the image and ideology of his running mate. Soon they will look like the Ryan-Romney ticket. Need proof? Check out Bob Schieffer’s 60 Minutes interview with the two last night. Ryan already seemed to be talking down to Romney.

Barack Obama’s strategists and ad makers will dig deep into Ryan’s budget plan to write a new and powerful chapter in their preferred narrative for the 2012 election. Bain, the Swiss bank accounts, and the offshore tax havens won’t go away; they will be with us until Election Day. But the ascension of Ryan invites and compels an evolution in the Obama approach. The campaign will build on Romney’s grasping and heedless financial manipulations by focusing on the Ryan policies that would so lavishly comfort the comfortable and so painfully punish mainstream America.

I can see it now, the wave of ads coming to swing states near and far. They will be more specific than the ones this summer that effectively defined Romney as someone who “favors the rich over the middle class,” a nearly disqualifying verdict rendered by 64 percent of respondents in the most recent CNN poll. This wave of arguments and advertising won’t change but reinforce the core Obama message, extending and embedding a defining question for voters: who stands up for the many, and who stands with the few?

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Only the rich and greedy don't worry about Medicare and SS

Much of the population do care about Medicare. Romney and Ryan want to dismantle all government services replacing with corporations. The more ads about this the better. Ryan is like Margaret Thatcher.