Tea Party Movement's Magical Thinking
By Clarence Page - August 15, 2012
Among other "awesome news" about Paul Ryan, as my son would call it, we have learned that Mitt Romney's running mate was voted prom king and "biggest brown noser" by his high school classmates. Obviously, he was destined for success in politics.
Let's give the Wisconsin Republican a break on that dubious achievement award. Ryan was a good-looking athlete with good grades, an impressive list of club activities and enough popularity to be prom king. Of course, he had haters. It was high school, the cruelest time of life, perhaps second only to running for national office.
That's the life Ryan faces as presidential candidate Romney's running mate. It's an odd marriage of convenience between the fiscally conservative Ryan, a darling of the tea party right, and Romney, a serial flip-flopper determined to prove his conservative credentials with his own party's right wing.
That's why Ryan's choice brought glee to the right and relief to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign team. In picking Ryan, the deficit-hawk chairman of the House Budget Committee, Romney decided to start from the right and swing even farther right, farther from the moderate swing voters who bring victory in November. That's an indication that he has not firmed up his base, even in August, right before the National Republican Convention. A similar situation led Sen. John McCain to choose the farther-right Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate four years ago, a decision that didn't work out too well, except for Team Obama.
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