EmptyTimCup
08-16-2012, 09:10 PM
How the GOP May Have Just Lost the Election and Won the Future (http://observer.com/2012/08/how-the-gop-may-have-just-lost-the-election-and-won-the-future/)
In selecting Rep. Paul Ryan as the next would-be President Vice President of the United States, Mitt Romney has rolled the dice on a risky, game-changing candidate (with all the baggage the term implies), a good-looking running mate with serious policy chops, who could nonetheless cost him the race. Meanwhile, however, the move appears to tee up a new era of GOP dominance that could find Mr. Ryan in the White House come 2016, while his erstwhile patron looks on from the private-sector sidelines.
Mr. Ryan’s negatives as a pick are plain to see: He comes from a Midwestern state that favored Mr. Obama by 15 percent in the last election and in which the president still holds a comfortable lead, so even the Badger State’s mere 10 electoral votes could still go blue.
In selecting Rep. Paul Ryan as the next would-be President Vice President of the United States, Mitt Romney has rolled the dice on a risky, game-changing candidate (with all the baggage the term implies), a good-looking running mate with serious policy chops, who could nonetheless cost him the race. Meanwhile, however, the move appears to tee up a new era of GOP dominance that could find Mr. Ryan in the White House come 2016, while his erstwhile patron looks on from the private-sector sidelines.
Mr. Ryan’s negatives as a pick are plain to see: He comes from a Midwestern state that favored Mr. Obama by 15 percent in the last election and in which the president still holds a comfortable lead, so even the Badger State’s mere 10 electoral votes could still go blue.