I think Ryan did a great job tonight.
However, I do not feel as elated as I did last week when I felt Romney
knocked it out of the ball park in his debate with Obama.
I think Ryan
won, but I am not sure undecided voters will think so. Not that I think
Ryan did poorly. I just don't think this debate will move the polls one way
or the other. Those already inclined to support Romney-Ryan will think
Ryan won; those inclined to support Obama-Biden will think Biden won.
The undecideds will still be undecided or will fall both ways. Also, I
just don't think people care as much about the vice presidential debates
and they do the presidential debates. I suspect this debate will have little impact.
If the public were rational, I think Ryan would have won by a landslide, but unfortunately I think there are a large number of people who cannot and will not accept that our path of greater and greater spending and borrowing and government dependency is unsustainable. We are about evenly split as a nation between those looking for something from the government and those producing the wealth in this country. Those who want government to pay for their college tuition and buy their groceries and pay for their birth control pills and pay their house payment and pay for their cell phone, will simply not accept that the government can't continue to pay more and more. They are convinced that we can tax the wealthy sufficiently to keep adding more and more free goodies. There are a lot of people to whom Biden's vulgar populist pandering will appeal.
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Enjoying conversation. Left to right: Myself (Rod Williams); Monty J. Lankford, Chairman Leaders of Tennessee; Tim Skow, leader of First Tuesday; and Ann Skow Tim's mother. |
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Michel Sullivan, State Republican Party Political Director, pitches for people to sign up for the phone banks. |
If the public were rational, I think Ryan would have won by a landslide, but unfortunately I think there are a large number of people who cannot and will not accept that our path of greater and greater spending and borrowing and government dependency is unsustainable. We are about evenly split as a nation between those looking for something from the government and those producing the wealth in this country. Those who want government to pay for their college tuition and buy their groceries and pay for their birth control pills and pay their house payment and pay for their cell phone, will simply not accept that the government can't continue to pay more and more. They are convinced that we can tax the wealthy sufficiently to keep adding more and more free goodies. There are a lot of people to whom Biden's vulgar populist pandering will appeal.
While I deplore Biden's politics, I myself cannot dislike Biden. The many stupid things he has said over the years only makes him more enduring in some way, even to those of us who do not like his politics. He is sort like the stereotypical uncle who thinks he has all of the answers. The whiz kid who really knows a lot more than the know-it-all uncle, must defer to the old blowhard because it would be unkind to be too aggressive in setting him straight. And, misguided as he may be, he means well.
I think Ryan deferred to Biden by letting Biden constantly interrupt and hog the time, but I am not sure Ryan could have acted differently. People such as Biden must be deferred to and endured. One can only hope that others do not take them too seriously.
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