In a related story, Paul Ryan's House of Representative campaign purchased several hundred thousand dollars in air time in his home state this week. Hum? Ryan: Romney 'obviously inarticulate' Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ... Being called "obviously inarticulate" by your running mate isn't something a presidential candidate ever wants to hear. Yet Rep. Paul Ryan was trying to defend GOP candidate Mitt Romney — not belittle him. Other Republicans also are having a hard time parsing what Romney meant by saying that 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes and think the government should take care of them — and will likely vote for Obama. A video clip of his comments, surreptitiously recorded at a closed-door Florida fundraiser in May, has been seized upon gleefully by the Obama campaign. A supportive independent advocacy group is running an ad in battleground states ridiculing Romney's remarks. And Obama told CBS' David Letterman: "One thing I've learned as president is that you represent the entire country." What Romney meant, Ryan told KRNV-TV in Reno, Nev., was that under Obama, government dependency and economic stagnation are both up. "He was obviously inarticulate in making this point." Should he have worded it differently? "That's for sure," Ryan said. Romney has called his comments "not elegantly stated" but hasn't renounced them. In what's clearly been a rough week for Romney, the clip has become a major unwanted distraction for many Republicans. The Romney campaign is fighting back with a 1998 clip in which Obama — then an Illinois state senator — says he supports some distribution of wealth "to make sure everybody's got a shot." "President Obama said that he believes in redistribution. Mitt Romney and I are not running to redistribute wealth. (We're) running to help Americans create wealth" Ryan told a rally Wednesday in Danville, Va. http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20120919/US.The.Race.Video/?cid=hero_media
Have you noticed that the three states the Cons are from and held office, Michigan and Wisconsin and the state Romney was governor of, are all polling heavily in favor of Obama. That should tell you something. The people that know these guys the best are voting for the the Socialist, Muslim Kenyan candidate.
It's obvious to anyone who wishes to see it. Some don't. Ryan is like Palin, a minor element in a fractured party...and that is where they belong, not in the mainstream.
