The Young vs. the Useless with a Touch of the Gipper

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NRO/The Corner:

John Fund

August 30, 2012

 

 

Some of the Republican faithful responded to Paul Ryan’s rousing acceptance speech for vice president last night as if it was the second coming of Ronald Reagan. And in a sense it was. Paul Ryan is the most Reaganesque political figure to reach the national stage since the Gipper himself. Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin was even seen crying during it — and this is a guy who just survived 18 months of siege warfare stoically.

 

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Reagan was able to appeal to young people despite the fact that he was the nation’s oldest elected president. Ryan at age 42 was able to make an overt appeal, pointing out that unemployed young people didn’t want to stare at their ceiling and gaze up at “fading Obama posters” in their childhood bedrooms, they want to “move out and get going with life.” He also joshed that Mitt Romney’s playlist of music selections would be familiar to anyone who had ever been in an elevator, while his own taste ranged from AC/ DC to Led Zeppelin. He then moved in for the kill, by noting that President Obama lacked any new ideas and was simply a tired figure whose plan had failed and was now only capable of airing attack ads. He compared that with the energy and vision he said the GOP ticket had to create a better future. The attempt to contrast between the old and the new couldn’t have been clearer.

 

Liberals are already throwing spitballs at Ryan. They recognize that his candidacy has energized Mitt Romney and the conservative base to run a campaign on bold ideas that calls on voters to make a fundamental choice about the country’s future. When Ryan made a pilgrimage to the Reagan Library in California last May to give a speech, Charles P. Pierce was quick to dismiss him as a “zombie-eyed granny-starver” who was now attempting to tap into “St. Ronnie’s sunnier side.” Those kinds of attacks come from people who are running scared. And Romney and Ryan now scare them.

 

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This is for all you Cheese heads out there....you know who you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZipUINVXIc

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[Valin]

 

[mozartlover]

lol, my son & I visited the Leinie headquarters a couple of years ago.

 

There's a Leinie reference in this video:

 

 

Totally off-topic but hilarious.