What Letting Paul Ryan Be Paul Ryan Gets You
By Charles P. Pierce
9/24/2012 at 12:11PM
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Mr. Ryan's team consists of two chiefs of staff from his Congressional office, who play a back-seat role to Dan Senor, one of Mr. Romney's closest advisers. Mr. Senor has traveled with Mr. Ryan since Day 1 and has overseen his convention speech, his debate preparation and his getting up to speed on foreign policy.
Let's see. The convention speech is now legendary for the pure mendacity of its content, which was so egregious even the networks noticed it. And having Dan Senor as your foreign-policy mentor is like taking juggling lessons from Edward Scissorhands. If this road were any more golden, we'd have to give Tiffany's the paving contract. Of course, if that golden road leads to the landfill, there's always selling the presidential candidate out to keep yourself "viable."
A Congressional official with ties to the Ryan camp said the congressman, who is also running for re-election, has a Plan B:
Return to Congress, use his positions on both the Budget and the Ways and Means Committees to seize a prominent role in a sweeping overhaul of the tax code, and use that as a springboard back into presidential politics on his own record. If the Republican ticket loses in November, the rush by Mr. Ryan and other 2016 hopefuls to position themselves for the Iowa caucuses "is going to look like Best Buy the night after Thanksgiving,
" said Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa. "I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he'll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him."
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-romney-campaign-strategy-13029847#ixzz27PvrVL2y
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