Ryan to be the Conservative Leader For Years to Come

It would be tough to find a more consistently brilliant columnist than Charles Krauthamer (though Thomas Sowell is definitely a contender). In his latest column (see here)  he points out that so-called "moderate" Mitt Romney has set the Republican Party on a very conservative path for the next generation by picking Paul Ryan as his Veep.  And certainly Ryan is no RINO.

Here's the best paragraph from his column:

Image. Ryan, fresh and 42, brings youth, energy, and vitality — the very qualities Obama projected in 2008 and has by now depleted. “Hope and change” has become “the other guy killed a steelworker’s wife.” From transcendence to the political gutter in under four years. A new Olympic record.

Although calling Obama's tactics the "political gutter" may be a bit generous.  Toilet? Sewer?

Whatever, it surely stinks.

Dennis Prager on Paul Ryan and the American Character

Excellent piece by Prager.  Here's the key paragraph.

In other words, and tragically, the Left and Democrats are relying on the decline of character that left-wing policies have produced (not only here but in Latin America, Europe, and everywhere else). The Democrats are hoping that older Americans are (irrationally) frightened by Medicare reform even though it will not affect them, and that younger Americans will likewise reject it because they are counting on receiving Medicare as it now exists.

Read the whole thing here.

Lyin' About Ryan?

What else can they do.  The truth hurts.

See Rich Lowry's piece in National Review here.