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Paul Ryan Completes G.O.P Ticket
By: karishma.tank Date: August 19, 2012, 2:48 pm
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On August 11th, 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt
Romney officially announced that Paul Ryan was his pick for the
vice presidential nominee and his running mate for the upcoming
November presidential elections. Mr. Ryan currently serves to
represent Wisconsin in the House of Representatives and is the
chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Ryan is known chiefly for his role in the Republican
Party’s plan for tax and spending cuts and as an advocate
of reshaping the Medicare program of health insurance for
retirees. The announcement has started off a weekend tour of
swing states in order to let people get a chance to meet Ryan
and showcase the new partnership known as “America’s
Comeback Team,” as reported by the New York Times.
As reported by Forbes Magazine, Paul Ryan is often criticized
for what he might do as vice president if elected based on what
he has advocated for in Congress. Ryan is accused of believing
in ending Medicare and Medicaid as we know it and pushing for
privatization of Social Security. In addition, he is accused of
being capable of decimating government funding to the point it
could no longer carry on many routine operations and wanting the
biggest transfer of wealth from poor and middle class to rich in
U.S. history, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The decision gained much support from other conservatives, such
as Ralph Reed, who is a conservative Christian leader. The New
York Times reports that Mr. Reed believes Romney’s
decision is “inspired and outstanding” and is
supportive of the fact that Ryan is “of devout Christian
faith who has a 100 percent pro-life and pro-family voting
record in Congress”, referring to Ryan’s view on the
topic of abortion.
New York Times reporter Michael Shear is in line with what Reed
mentioned and predicts that Ryan will be a “home
run” for conservatives because he has been pressuring
Republicans to go further in cutting the size of government than
others in the party.
Additionally, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a leading
forum of conservative thought, praised Romney’s choice
because he has shown his determination to curb entitlement
spending. The Wall Street Journal also lists the names of other
nominees that Romney was said to be thinking about in addition
to Ryan, one of which was Ohio Senatory Rob Portman.
Portman was one possible nominee and was praised by the Wall
Street Journal as well but noted his ties to the Bush
administrations and its association with the economic downturn
in cautioning against his selection. Since many voters still
blame Bush for our current economic troubles, Portman would be a
very risky choice for the vice presidential nominee as he will
attract a lot of negative attention.
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was another candidate
mentioned. He was mentioned to be a safe and mature choice for
Romney as his working class roots could balance Romney’s
stereotype of being too rich and disconnected to the average
working class.
Paul Ryan’s nomination as the vice presidential pick by
Romney has brought some attention from other groups of people as
well. Ryan is a favorite among the Tea Party. The Tea Party is
known to be like “stubborn barbarians at the gate,”
standing strongly by what they believe in and refusing to
compromise on spending, taxes, debt, or social policy. If
elected to be the vice president, The New York Times reports
that the Tea Party lawmakers will be at the core of the modern
Republican Party because of Paul Ryan.
The pick has also brought some support from the Tea Party to
Romney. The Tea Party was previously skeptical of Romney because
they weren’t sure that Romney would be their ally for
their legislative goals, and choosing Mr. Ryan eases those
concerns even as it marks a shift in the movement’s
balance of power.
Despite all of the people that support Romney’s decision,
there are those of who believe that Ryan would be a very bad
vice president. An anonymous reporter from the New York Times
mentioned that Ryan just says that he will make changes but
fails to explain exactly how he will do so. For example, Ryan
says that he will cut the budget but finds no need to explain
how with his vision of endless columns of minus signs.
Additionally, this reporter believes that Ryan has drawn a
blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need
it most, especially since Ryan seems to be doing so much work
with cutting down government influence and government spending
on programs that millions of Americans depend on. More than
three fifths of the cuts proposed by Ryan and accepted by the
Tea Party come from programs for low income Americans.
Ryan’s budget “will hurt hungry children, poor
families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find
employment,” as mentioned in the article.
Paul Ryan’s only argument for his actions was that he was
“helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the
government” while failing to explain how he would make
them self-sufficient and how a radical transformation of
government would turn around a crumbling economy. Ryan would cut
aid to desperate state and local governments by at least 20
percent on top of other cuts to mass transit and highway
spending, as reported. In other words, it would become painfully
clear to the struggling lower and middle classes that Ryan is in
fact ruining the lives for the people that make up this country.
President Obama, on a fund-raising visit to Chicago, welcomed
Mr. Ryan to the race by describing him as the “ideological
leader” of Republicans. His advisers worked to prepare a
new advertising campaign to define the agenda advocated by Mr.
Romney and Mr. Ryan as a threat to women, retirees and others.
They also sought to pressure Mr. Romney to embrace or distance
himself from Mr. Ryan’s plans in order to break up their
image of their partnership and image as “America’s
Comeback Team.”
As Republicans head to their convention at the end of the month,
a theme has emerged among the race among Democrats and
Republicans to the White House. A vote for Mr. Obama is an
endorsement of the status quo, Republicans will argue, while a
vote for Mr. Romney is a call for change.
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