Now that Mitt Romney’s made a VP choice, there’s news breaking every few seconds all over the place. And since I suspect that will go on for several days, it won’t be long before any interested party will be able to find every scintilla of detail regarding Paul Ryan’s life, be it private, personal, social or political.
However, while searching the web a few minutes ago, and expecting to find all kinds of important information about Mitt’s choice, I read a headline on Drudge that actually had me laughing out loud.
The line read: MEDIA COMPLAINS ABOUT RYAN'S LACK OF 'PRIVATE-SECTOR' EXPERIENCE atop an article from The New Yorker Magazine on-line, no less, written by Ryan Lizza
The text goes on to say that, “For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience. Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.”
Lizza then adds, “But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.”
As for me, what I find remarkable is how bias in the press convolutes data, either for it’s own purposes or perhaps due to outright ignorance. I state that because in this particular case Romney himself has all the experience, and more, to lead the nation, especially so regarding business success and acumen. Thus, by selecting Ryan, he’s covering the “inside Congress” base with a guy who’s been there for fourteen years.
What’s more, Ryan wrote the budget that passed the House but was defeated in the Senate because it would have killed the Dem majorities plans to continue to tax and spend, despite the fact that they’d already added twelve trillion to the nation's deficit in just four years with nary a clue as how to correct it.
Now naturally, it wouldn't have mattered an iota who Romney picked to run alongside him, media bias being what it is and smearing and sliming the normal reaction to everything. But regardless, the preceding article is incredible to me in the way it tries to discount and disparage the experience of two quite well-rounded men in their particular fields of expertise. Because if you compare either one to the incumbent, you realize that the current president has no experience whatsoever in any area of endeavor you can think of. But far worse than that, after three and a half years in office he still hasn’t learned a thing about heading a nation and still acts as though he’s remained nothing but a political activist roaming the Chicago streets.
That’s it for today folks.
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