{"id":14862,"date":"2012-08-13T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:35:15","slug":"how_ryan_forces_obama_to_face_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/13\/how_ryan_forces_obama_to_face_issues\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ryan Forces Obama to Face Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m not trying to take anything away from Sarah Palin. She excited the McCain campaign like wildfire. Don\u2019t misunderstand. They\u2019re a little bit different. We don\u2019t have McCain on the ticket. A lot of people think there\u2019s not much difference between Romney and McCain. I happen to think there is. But not by any stretch am I trying to diminish the enthusiasm Sarah Palin brought. Maybe what I should better say is I was surprised.<\/p>\n

The conventional wisdom is that vice presidential picks do not really matter in November. When people go in to vote, they really don\u2019t matter. That\u2019s the conventional wisdom. And I expected whoever Romney\u2019s picked to be a perfunctory thing that happens in the campaign and accept it as such. The outpouring of energy and enthusiasm for Ryan everywhere those guys went on Saturday — North Carolina, in Norfolk, Virginia — was huge. By the way, how in the world did Romney secure the USS Wisconsin for a political event?<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Obama\u2019s Navy!<\/p>\n

In Norfolk, they got the USS Wisconsin to do their Ryan announcement. I thought that was cool. But the reaction that people had was a huge, pleasant surprise for me. It was something that I marveled at over the weekend. It\u2019s got tremendous potential. Remember, now, I\u2019ve been on this kick for I can\u2019t tell you how long, that (particularly in presidential campaigns) we have got to talk about our ideology. We have got to talk about our principles. We have got to talk about our ideas.<\/line><\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s how you get the Hispanic vote. I think that\u2019s how you get portions of the minority vote. I do believe — and I may be a Pollyanna, and my time may be past, but I still believe — that a clear majority of people who live in this country want this country to be what it was as founded. They want it to be made up of those first principles. They don\u2019t want the Obama transformation; they don\u2019t want what Obama\u2019s doing now. Our task, the task that Romney and Ryan have, is a delicate one.<\/p>\n

Many Americans think that this economic situation that we\u2019re in is just part of a cycle, and that it\u2019s just different. They probably believe that Obama and the Democrats are working hard to try to bring us out of it. That\u2019s the challenge. The challenge here is for Romney and Ryan to convince people that are not supportive of them right now that this is not a cycle; that this results from ideas which are bad, that this economy… And they\u2019re doing this, by the way.<\/p>\n

Ryan is out there doing it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s saying, “We can turn this around! We will turn this around.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s doing it. That\u2019s why I\u2019m jazzed. But this is not part of the cycle. This situation that Americans are in — out of work, hopelessly out of work, hopelessly in debt — is the result of bad ideas. It\u2019s bad ideas and bad principles, believed and held by Obama and the Democrats. It\u2019s not simply part of a cycle. This is not just a really, really bad economy. “Wow, it\u2019s taken longer to come out of this thing than anybody knew. But everybody\u2019s working hard to try and reverse this.”<\/p>\n

No, they\u2019re not working hard to try and reverse this. We are where we are because the ideas, the beliefs, the so-called principles of Barack Obama are anathema to the United States of America as founded. And, when properly explained, they are anathema to a majority of the American people. It\u2019s ideas, ideology, that facilitates this explanation and ultimate persuasion.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I checked the e-mail during the break, and I got couple people, “Would you explain to me…” I can sense the snarkiness in the e-mail. “Would you explain to me how the choice of Ryan forces Obama to discuss issues?” Yeah. I\u2019ll give it a shot. Snerdley already showed the way. He didn\u2019t even know what he was doing. Snerdley comes at me, “Well, what about Medicare? Ryan wanted to destroy Medicare.” Well, wait, doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t matter what you said. The fact of the matter is that to refute Ryan, these guys are gonna have to do what? <\/p>\n

They can call him extreme and do all that, but they\u2019re going to have to explain why his plan will cause Grandma to be eating dog food. And when they are forced to explain that, what are they doing? They are discussing specifics, and they will be lying, which opens up the opportunity for it to be refuted. And, in the process, that brings Obama\u2019s record to the fore. The very idea that Ryan will be criticized substantively, they\u2019re going to have to criticize him — look, you\u2019re not gonna be able to get away with making this guy out to be Darth Vader. They\u2019re not gonna be able to pull that. They\u2019re gonna try, they are trying, but he is, perhaps, as I said, our last Boy Scout. <\/p>\n

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Ryan can explain the Bain Capital crap. Ryan explained it over the weekend. Bob Schieffer, that 60 Minutes interview, Ryan was chomping at the bit to explain Bain Capital. We have the truth on our side. Bain Capital, and Ryan said this, saved businesses. It saved jobs. We\u2019ve got the greatest opportunity to contrast who we are and what we believe with the demonstrable failure of liberalism, Marxism, socialism, whatever. We don\u2019t have to tell people what will happen if Obama is elected. All we have to do is point out what has happened. But you need the right guy to be able to explain it. Ryan is the guy. And I see Romney now even being energized. Romney had a crowd in Florida, which the conventional wisdom says he can\u2019t win \u2019cause he picked Ryan. They had such a big crowd in Florida, they had to turn \u2019em away \u2019cause they couldn\u2019t security screen \u2019em fast enough, in a state that Romney is guaranteed to lose, if you listen to the right pundits, because he picked Paul Ryan. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know that Obama and Axelrod and this crowd has realized yet what\u2019s happened to \u2019em. I think it\u2019s one of those things, be careful what you wish for. They have the ability to lie to themselves. They have the ability to lie to everybody else. They create this false universe and cocoon of reality in which they live. Ryan\u2019s gonna force \u2019em out of that. I\u2019m listening to all the analysts and all the pundits, and one of the things I said, “How\u2019s the vice presidential pick gonna do all this? Who reacts to a vice presidential pick?” Well, when the vice presidential pick, I don\u2019t care who it is, when the vice presidential pick starts dismantling the president of the United States and his policies and his ideas and what they have wrought, that\u2019s something they\u2019re gonna have to react to. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to have to come back at some point with some substance, and when they do that, they don\u2019t have the substance on their side. When they do that, that brings Obama\u2019s record to the fore. They\u2019re not gonna give up on the Bain Capital stuff, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna give up on “Romney murders guys\u2019 wives” and stuff like that. But it\u2019s gonna be made to look all the more foolish. Now, I got an answer. It makes perfect sense. ‘Cause I was wondering over the weekend, how in the world do they secure from Obama\u2019s Navy the USS Wisconsin for a campaign. It\u2019s a museum. It\u2019s not an active ship anymore. It\u2019s open to anybody. It\u2019s a museum.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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