Romney and Ryan are two very different people than Bush and Cheney. Bush was a Grade F Ignoramus and Mental Midget. Cheney was a bloodthirsty Oil & Gas captain of industry. Romney is a turnaround specialist with an excellent business record. Ryan is one of the most knowledgeable people in Congress on our budget and has a million ideas that can work to fix it. Ryan may very well be the most sincere and passionate person on the subject next to Ron Paul.
So I know it is popular to take simplistic positions such as "Every Republican is exactly the same", because it excuses you from having to do any harder thinking. However, just as Obama was and is not the same as every Democrat that came before him, neither is Romney/Ryan the same as Bush/Cheney.
What I find most interesting about Romney is the very thing that has many people not liking him. He's a moderate, but has had to lean far right to pick up the GOP nomination. Very similar to Obama who is more of a moderate, but had to lean left to get the Dem nomination. In both cases, people said that they were unknowable, flighty, lacked convictions, etc. I find that to be indirect evidence of moderate pragmatism that is for the most part not popular in this country, which is full of left and right wing extremists.
So the very things that many people don't like about Romney and Ryan, I am beginning to admire them for. At the end of the day, prosperity will return to this country at the hands of pragmatists and moderates, not at the hands of extremists of left or right leaning persuasion. |
