OPINION: Romney’s pick of Ryan stirs the GOP cause
When GOP candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan as “the next president of the United States,” it seemed to skeptics, at least, that he might actually think the charismatic Wisconsin congressman would make a better chief executive than the often awkward one-time governor of Massachusetts.
Republicans and conservatives had public misgiving about the stiff, lackluster multimillionaire who won the nomination only with the help of master manipulator Karl Rove. (Despite his near indictment during the Bush administration, Rove is back and has already reined in the billionaire Koch Brothers, Shelly Adelson and others. The Rove Financial Complex, aided and abetted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, has amassed almost $1.8 billion, which will could enable it to buy enough seats to control both houses Congress in November.)
After almost seven terms in congress, Ryan clearly has a much better working knowledge of Washington than Romney. And he is articulate, determined and almost righteous, when pushing his much ballyhooed plan.