Ryan-Romney: Serious About the Budget

OP hopeful Mill Romney has chosen Paul Ryan, Representative from Wisconsin, as his running mate. It is a bold and serious choice – good for the country and good for Mr. Romney. Paul Ryan has served on the front lines of this country’s jarring budget debates, attracting a good amount of criticism for, among other proposals, his suggested overhaul of Medicare. 

He has tweaked President Obama more than once, needling him for ignoring the issues that matter most to our country’s long-term prospects, and to voters. Unlike so many of his colleagues in Congress, he has not shrunk from the skirmish over how to fix our entitlements programs; by proxy, Mr. Romney is signaling that he, too, is ready to engage. This decision by Mr. Romney presents voters with a clear choice – a president who skips town when his hand-picked Simpson-Bowles budget commission is ready to deliver some unpleasant news- or a GOP team ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

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