The New York Times misses the point that Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan to be his running mate further highlights Obama’s failures -- on the economy, on the debt, on bipartisanship, and on the budget.
Instead, the Times, right out of the gate, has written that Ryan’s selection will allow Obama to make this election a referendum on Ryan’s plan, and Obama will now be on “more promising territory” and have “a chance to press the offensive against his challengers rather than just defend his record.”
What the Times is doing is setting the conventional wisdom -- that this election will now be a referendum on Ryan and not on Obama’s miserable record -- in an effort to change the political conversation and debate so the mainstream media pack of dogs focuses even less than they currently do on all of Obama’s failures.
The Times quotes one liberal group after another saying the Romney-Ryan ticket would essentially throw the proverbial granny off the cliff. Here is a sampling.
The leader of the AFL-CIO’S super PAC: “This is the perfect choice for us to finish our frame of Romney ... What Romney and Bain did to working families and companies is what Romney and Ryan would do to all Americans.”
Bill Burton, the founder of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA that ran a reprehensible and despicable ad that accused Romney of killing a former employee’s wife who died of cancer because she did not have health care: “From the beginning when we polled, we found that the Ryan plan was the most toxic political document ever, but the problem was you couldn’t convince voters that any politician would actually support it ... Now this actually makes the job easier.”
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