But anyway, it's Paul Ryan and the conservative side of the Republican party are delighted. Ryan is young, slick, has intellectual weight, and has for a long time argued strongly for fiscal responsibility and has backed it up with real proposals.
Yet there are some in the GOP, as well as many in the MSM, who are less sure. A lot of this focuses on the fact that Ryan wants to reform Medicare, and this opens the campaign up to left-wing attacks about pushing granny of a cliff, in spite of these claims being proven demonstrably false. As last week's "Romney gave my wife cancer" ad showed - the truth and the left have only a passing acquaintance.
Yet I believe these worries are not something to worry about. Ryan is a tough talker and I believe that he can win the argument any day of the week. All he needs to do is say "Ok, what are you going to do about Medicare" and watch his opponents mumble.
However, it ignores what Ryan really brings to the table - he makes this election about ideology, not about personality. For some unknown reason Obama is still personally fairly popular, in spite of the fact that the majority of Americans hate his stance and positions on just about anything and everything.
It is for this reason that Romney needed to stop making this election about Obama's personality, and more about an ideological debate between conservative and liberal - a debate conservatives always win. Charles Krauthammer argued this very persuasively in his latest column - for this election to be won it needs to come down to an ideological debate about where Americans want America to go.
If Americans want to go down the path of European socialism, vote for Obama; if they want to continue the American dream, vote Romney/Ryan. This is the debate that Romney wants to have, this is something Ryan can provide, and it is for this reason why Paul Ryan is the right pick for Mitt Romney!
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