Monday, August 13, 2012

John Carney — Wall Street's Big Concern: Can Ryan Help Romney Win?

"The most important development is that this pick makes it unlikely that Romney can win Florida because of the anxiety Ryan generates among senior citizens over Medicare," he [Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group in Washington] added. "If Romney can't win Florida, he can't win the presidency."
Read it at CNBC NetNet
Wall Street's Big Concern: Can Ryan Help Romney Win?
John Carney | Senior Editor

11 comments:

GLH said...

I think this is an excellent selection. Now people may be able to see a definite contrast between the two candidates and decide if they want more tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for the rest. It is sort of the 99% vs. the 1%. Excellent.
I must point out that I don't like Obumer, but he still isn't as bad as the Republicans.

paul meli said...

I don't like Obumer

Hard to really like a guy that could put drone in your living room if he wanted to, and helped make that possible.

Edmund said...

The geopolitical problems with the Romney campaign outweigh concerns about drones.

http://i47.tinypic.com/fxwj0x.jpg

Clonal said...

To see the problems with Romeney/Ryan see this video which should really go viral -- Note in particular Ryan's comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBhdXfCdaA8

Tom Hickey said...

Fascism.

Tom Hickey said...

Were the Tea Partiers even ejected let alone arrested with they invaded the public meetings of Democratic reps. Or the manufactured crowds that stormed election officials in Florida at the culmination of Bush-Gore. No way.

Of course, this is nothing new. It is how W handled dissent during his administration too.

Now it is just taken for granted in the US that if you dissent, the police will beat you up and probably arrest you for resisting arrest.

This used to be the "street discipline" for controlling the ghettos but now it is being extended to the middle class.

And the media is fine with it.

Anonymous said...

Romney's selection of Paul Palin ... er ... Ryan is an amazing gift to the Democrats. He is an extremist, and seems to have the ability to impoverish the many with a smile, which is a talent to be sure, but not the kind I look for in a candidate.

The upcoming election has all the hallmarks of the Australian 1993 election, dubbed the "unlosable election" given the incumbent government was so far behind in the Polls. The scare campaign they developed surrounding the Opposition's GST (or VAT for the northern hem's) then reached a crescendo as the Opposition leader struggled to explain such a complex problem based on a simple example of a birthday cake - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WndWM71-jSQ. Humorous, alomst Monty Python-esque, but excruciating.

They lost the unlosable election.

Juxtapose GST for health care and pensions in the US 2012 election (where Obama is not even close to being in such a poor polling position), and they're on a winner. The fact that half the country doesn't even know who Ryan is means that this election, to me, is going to be an easy win for Obama even if strategised by an impaired chimpanzee. Soundbites, catchphrases, and scare tactics will be too difficult to overcome.

The enemy in politics? Too many words!

The R's will have to use too many, simple as that, trying to explain what they themselves don't even understand.

Some clever interviewer (not from Fox) might even ask them why, if fiscal stimulus doesn't work (as they claim against all evidence), is the concept of fiscal cliff even valid at all? Then how do they explain that every economist in the cosmos has is pegged at -4/-5% of GDP? You can't have it both ways. Goodness, you could tie these guys in knots with 5 minutes preparation.

apj

Tom Hickey said...

@apj

If the Dems weren't clueless, it would be a slam dunk. But, unfortunately, they are clueless.

beowulf said...

The only possible explanation is that Mitt Romney asked James Carville who he should pick.
http://www.democracycorps.com/National-Surveys/serious-attack-on-ryan-budget-takes-toll-on-mitt-romney/

I've read that Romney's campaign advisers (including his strategist Stuart Stevens) urged him to pick Pawlenty but instead he decided to listen to the people who spent all winter trying to derail his nomination and pick Ryan.

Matt Franko said...

Beo,
This Ryan thing is a debacle.

Ryan's strange and anti-faith oriented Ayn Rand fetish should have DQed him right there. This is like the Delaware woman the GOP picked for Senate that was a occult witch or something...

Romney must be pretty insulated to what is going on. There were Catholic Bishops that went very public against Ryan as recently as a few months ago, this should have made Ryan kryptonite.... rsp

Tom Hickey said...

The only reasonable explanation for the Ryan pick that I can come up with is that Ryan will serve two purposes for Romney, one, during the campaign by energizing the conservative base, and and, two, after the election as Romney liaison with Congress, especially the unruly House.

The GOP could win both the presidency and Congress only to see the big tent fracturing between Establishment, represented by Romney and the Libertarian and conservative base, which is where Ryan could be very helpful making calls from the VP's office. It would raise Ryan's stature in the party and he could perhaps get a leash on the loose cannons.