So will Paul Ryan,
Romney’s choice for VP help or hurt his chances at getting elected president of
the United States ?
That is a hard
question to answer at this point in time, one can only guess but there are
factors one could look at right now.
Ryan is a young,
smart, good looking candidate. He is a little cocky and sometimes rushes to
judgment a little too quickly.
He is a finance wiz
supposedly and has put forth a few plans at reforming our finances; some of
those he has taken back and modified.
I like some of his
ideas on taxes, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security but the Democrats will
hammer away at only one theme: that Ryan wants to take your Medicare and Social
Security and privatize it meaning he wants to mess with your retirement
security. This is only partly true but both parties are lying through their
teeth so I would not place my trust into anything EITHER party is saying.
To me, the economy
is very important but neither Romney nor Obama have a perfect plan on fixing
the economy, they can only do what they are allowed to do by Congress and I am
against either party being in full control of Congress. I want checks and
balances to prevent either party from inflicting too much damage on the
country.
I am concerned that
Ryan is a Roman Catholic conservative just like Santorum is and that does not
bode well for moderates or liberals; Ryan and Romney could set the country on a
backward path into a religious dark age where many of our hard won freedoms
would be repealed by the judges they would appoint to the Supreme Court.
And it is for this
reason that even though I believe Romney/Ryan can do better for our economy and
even though Romney is really a moderate, I think he has sold his soul to the
dark side (anything to win) and will even go against his better judgment to
placate the fundamentalist right.
I am hopeful that
Obama will learn something from Romney/Ryan’s economic plans and ideas and
modify his socialist stance on getting the rich or so called rich, to pay for
his plan on shrinking the inequality gap in the U.S.; Communist Russia tried it
and failed miserably; a gap will always exist so start facing reality and quit
trying to create a utopia.
I have voted for
Republicans before based solely on economic issues but I just cannot bring myself
to do it this time since I believe the far right is just too far right and I
cannot take the chance.
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