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.
