Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Just saw this kicking around the Badger State, Prof. Rahe, and thought you'd be pleased.
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan keeps saying "no."
We add our voice today to the many Americans who keep urging the Republican from Janesville to say "yes!"
Ryan, 41, one of the smartest and most creative and courageous members of Congress, should run for president of the United States in 2012.
The Republican field for president feels adrift, with tea party firebrand U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota winning the Iowa straw poll last weekend.
Ryan would jump into the mix as a young, gutsy leader from the heartland, willing to tackle America's most daunting financial problems while effectively communicating the dire need for reform.
Ryan is a man of ideas.
"He's brilliant," former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told the State Journal editorial board last fall.
Feingold won't be endorsing Ryan for president - that's for sure. Yet Feingold's praise of Ryan's intellect is telling. So is Ryan's work with Feingold to curb wasteful earmarks.
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Ryan doesn't have all the answers, and sometimes his partisan edge gets the best of him.
But he's prepared and capable and knowledgeable - more so than most of the GOP pack.
Run, Paul, run for the White House!
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Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Bully for them.
Mar '11
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Run Paul Run.
Aug '10
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Amen. And Free Kenneth!
Mar '11
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
I heard he was holed up in the Cheney memorial bunker.....
Jan '11
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"...his partisan edge..."
Let's see it.
The Republican presidential primary process is about who will be best to take on Barack Obama, the MSM and the Democrat Party Slime Machine.
It is a testing ground to show which man or woman can receive the biased, progressively-premised questions of the media and turn them around into attacks on the administration that ring true to the general public, rather than simply defending the conservative position.
It is a gauntlet where we find out who can hold up under a ferocious and unprincipled assault of ferociously angry and happily unprincipled fearmongers.
And it is a trial where our eventual candidate must not be deferential to the intentions of our opponents, but instead indict them, try them and find them guilty as charged for their failures.
The primary is not a debate. We don't need someone who can merely elucidate our position.
Don't tell me about how Paul Ryan stood up to Barack Obama in that famous meeting the President had with the GOP. I want him to do more than stand up to Obama.
I want him to knock him down.
May '10
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Bring it...time for some Bucky Badger offense.
Sep '10
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
To echo Milton F., we should not be so concerned with finding good leaders who will do the right thing, we should be concerned with creating the circumstances were bad leaders will be forced to do the right thing. The left thought they had found their messiah in Obama. They were proved wrong. Ryan will not be the right’s and it is a mistake to try and elevate him to the status of one. The American people have gotten the government they deserve and they will continue to do so. Changing the American people is what we should be concerned with. To win an election and not make significant progress in doing this will not be a victory. I think Ryan can make a contribution in doing this as a candidate or in the US House. He seems to grasp that this is not about numbers but morality.
Nov '10
Re: Prof. Rahe is joined by the Wisconsin State Journal
Any more word on whether he's getting in? Anything we can do?