Letter: Now what we need

Robert E. Dimond, Naples

What he needs,

not what we need

Why is it that Republicans cannot nominate a candidate for president who can make his or her own decisions?

Most recently, we had President George W. Bush, whose mind was controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney; now we have Mitt Romney, whose "navigator" is tea party doll Paul Ryan.

It is comical, though extremely sad, that not until the radical Ryan was selected was Mitt able to decide what budget plan he was going to back. Now it's Ryan's, of course. At first he tried to back away from that toxic budget, then fell in line.

He is no doubt relieved that Ryan will assume the limelight, because Mitt doesn't have any answers for the press. There's nothing in his past he can discuss without placing his candidacy at risk. So let the would-be VP take the pressure off, just as Cheney did for Dubya.

All of his most natural areas for discussion are off limits, including: his accomplishments as Massachusetts governor (Romneycare); his feelings about his religion (is it "really" Christian?); his time at Bain Capital ("I like firing people"); his tax returns (with all of those hidden offshore accounts); and even his plans for the presidency (ask Paul; I support his slash-and-burn programs all the way).

I wonder if he knows that Ryan cannot appear in his place during the upcoming presidential debates to explain why they will end Medicare as we know it, slash Social Security and eliminate every net for the needy.


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Comments » 4

Write_Thinker writes:

I think Romney's campaign is in the process of neutering Ryan's Plan, and Ryan, in the process. Republicans cannot speak of any plan in detail, as no one will vote for such horrible leadership, if they do. Revival of the middle class is no where in their plans. I think both Romney and Ryan will be fully neutered long before the election, and will only be able to negatively attack our President, to no avail.

whalling writes:

Romney is strong and is his own man, Ryan makes the team stronger. Now let's look at the DFL, does Biden make the team stronger? How scary is it to know that Biden sits next in line right now. This must be changed in November. The writer should look at the history of Romney in his life and career - he has been successful, he has been a leader of large organizations, he has hired, evaluated and fired people, he has created and met budgets, he has turned around businesses and made them profitable and created jobs. Now let's look at Obama's profession - he was a community organizer - is that a real job?

Ironbutterfly writes:

If you libs didn't have double standards you wouldn't have any standards at all, hence, the empty suit you put in office. Get real, you libs are hypocrits.

trader9 (Inactive) writes:

So Robert,

Are you so niave as to believe that a President (or any senior-level executive) sits at a desk with no advisors, taking no input from anyone or using no qualified teams of people to arrive at options/consensus?

Tell us about how President Obama stayed awake nights formulating Obamacare and the Stimulus package, because he and he alone has the wisdom, experience and vision to create, implement and administer such monumnental feats of government!

Get a clue.

Though after one gets past the 1st paragraph, it's obvious your letter is nothing but another partisan hack job.
