Ryan VP Pick Is a Step in the Right Direction

As someone who considers himself a true conservative, I’ve always felt that I must support the most conservative candidate running, whether we’re talking about a national race or a state race. This view, quite often, creates conflict with those republicans who are obsessed with the highly over-rated notion of elect ability, which more times than not  totally ignores the ideological criteria that prompted them to identify themselves as republicans in the first place.

I’m so tired of hearing about a candidate’s ability to raise money as being the preeminent criteria for deciding who to support, particularly during a primary campaign. If ideology is ignored then what is the purpose of pouring all our energies into electing a candidate, who will always fall short of our greatest hopes and expectations. If you pick a candidate that can energize the base, the money will be there at the end, I like to believe..

In the present campaign for electing a republican to the Presidency, it seems to me that the Republican establishment as well as the candidate they have backed from the very start of the political season, Mitt Romney, has gone out of its way to ignore ideology, at least until the announcement yesterday in Norfol. VA, that pro-lifer and conservative fiscal policy guru, Paul Ryan,  had been selected as Romney’s choice for vice president.

Now the tables should begin to turn. Not only will Obama be forced to defend his failed policies, and inability to produce a budget that even his own party can support in the Senate, but the Republican political consultants will also be forced to embrace conservative principles they believe, but have been reluctant to openly embrace for fear of alienating those precious independents, who have such a difficult time doing any real independent thinking, it seems.

I've never understood why the media trips over themselves every election finding out what independents think, rather than the base of both parties. It won't be the independents knocking on doors in most cases or holding signs at busy intersections. Anyway...

Hopefully the choice of Ryan will amount to more than simply an olive branch to Conservatives, but a real indication that Romney is determined to rescue this nation from the same disastrous fate caused by out of control debt, spending, and entitlements that are presently sending European socialist economies into the abyss.

Although there are other aspects of Obama’s policies weighing heavily on the minds of conservatives like the dismantling of the greatest health care system, the greatest military, and the greatest economy  the world has ever known, the decision to select Paul Ryan as VP certainly is a step in the right direction.