1)Sara Palin was a poor pick for VP. However she was the first woman on the GOP presidential ticket; actually the first woman to even get close. However after the brief dalliance with Palin, the GOP is back to its non-diverse ways. In fact it is doubling/tripling down with all of this anit-women legislation and the national block-the-vote effort.
2) Romney is a Mormon, who most evangelicals do not consider a Christian. Ryan is a devotee of Ayn Rand who is one of the most decidedly anti-Christian folk in current popular culture. Yet many of the Evangelicals will line up behind Romney and Ryan because they hate Obama so much.
3) Having made a brief effort to criticize Obama on foreign policy in-spite of what seems to have been a great turn-around for the country on that front, Romney pairs his own lack of foreign policy experience (even how to behave overseas) with someone that has no foreign policy record as well.
4) Republicans are emphasizing the fact that Ryan's plan to dismantle medicare excludes those already over 55 because they would have no hope of wining Florida without that exclusion. However, if the plan was so good, why exclude anyone? Could it be that they are once again appealing to Tea Party greed, "the federal government owes you... but not those other folk".
5)Although medicare and the Ryan tax plan have the number one slot in the news, Romney's tax issue did not go away. Neither did the Swiss bank accounts, the shell corporations in the Cayman Islands, the "Corporations are People", the dog on the roof, bullying the gay kid in high school, the disastrous foreign trip, and the overall plan to cut taxes on the wealthy, raise defense spending and balance the budget by closing the nations public schools (and everything else).
6)Apparently Romney hope that by picking someone with an actual personality, that would inject some life into a wilting campaign and take the spotlight off of himself. Maybe it will. It certainly makes the contrast more stark and lays to rest any thought that Romney was a closet moderate that would govern from the middle.
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