Monday, August 13, 2012

Whither the Campaign Now?

The WSJ's Kimberly Strassel hit the nail on the head in her column this morning.  With his selection of Paul Ryan as running mate, Mitt Romney has an opportunity to change the debate about the future of "entitlements."

The Demagogues... er... Democrats will screech that the devil Romney/Ryan ticket will steal your Medicare savings and give them to their rich fat-cat Wall Street friends.

The Romney/Ryan campaign will be judged by the electorate on how well it hammers home the twin messages that Obama seeks to remain on the track that leads over the cliff in ten years, and that maintaining Medicare and other middle class entitlements at the current planned levels can only be paid for by job-killing middle class taxes.

On the Obama plan, we all will have less.  The elderly will have their health care rationed as more physicians refuse to take the prescribed payments.  With higher taxes, the middle-aged and young will have less incentive to produce the necessary goods and services to trade to the health care sector to meet the needs of our aging society.

As usual, central planning assures its own failure, and fails to plan for it!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Does Romney's Selection of Ryan Clarify the Electoral Issues?

I often enjoy Walter Russell Mead.  His thoughtful blog has been very much worth reading over the last two years or so.  He has defined the progressists' goal as a "blue social model" in which the government supplies all the things it thinks we need.

Here, Mead points out how Romney's selection of Ryan crystallizes the argument between those progressivists and the conservatives who argue that economic freedom produces the most for everyone, even the poorest among us.

Mead hopes that the debate will be better for the country after Romney's pick of Ryan.  So do I, but I fear that the Obama camp will cry havoc and loose the dogs of war.  Rather than arguing rationally, I believe they will continue to engage in nothing but demagoguery and slander.

Romney Makes a Great Decision, Chooses Paul Ryan for VP

It's amazing how one great decision can so strongly effect your opinion of a man.

In announcing Paul Ryan as his choice for Vice President yesterday, Mitt Romney showed judgement and courage, as the decision focuses his campaign on the big issues raised by Obama's progressivism and its failure.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Ted Cruz Interview Video

If you didn't see Ted Cruz's interview on Fox News Sunday, you missed one of the best ever.

Here it is.  It is10 minutes of thrills for a conservative political junkie.  Watch it!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Cruz Wins Texas Senate Runoff -- Part II

Here is an in-depth analysis of Ted Cruz's victory yesterday by a lefty who should probably remain in the shallow end of the writer's pool with his water wings firmly attached.

The headline claims that with Cruz's selection by the Republicans and probable election in the Fall general election, the Senate will become a lot more conservative.  Yet our intrepid author says Cruz's positions were hardly different from Dewhurst's.

Kilgore's point comes through his prose but dimly: Cruz's victory hammers home the Lugar message that the conservative wing of the party is not prepared to compromise with the Spendican wing.  No one should be wondering where the tea party is, now.

Maybe that's why FreedomWorks' President Matt Kibbe's new book is titled Hostile Takeover.