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Democratic strategists were
certain that, with Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, Medicare had
become a better issue than ever for them. How do we know this?
Democrats said so.
Ryan is the author of a Medicare
reform plan that Democrats insist would “end Medicare as we know it.”
That’s their mantra. Mitt Romney, who picked Ryan as his vice
presidential running mate last week, has a similar plan of his own.
Moving quickly, the Romney
campaign packaged that two-step response into a crisp, 30-second TV ad
that began being aired yesterday. The campaign plans a large buy
with the ad, particularly in swing states.
I'd
like to think that Romney-Ryan "set a trap," as do the Weekly
Standard, but I suspect it was a
case of the Obama campaign ( probably the most inept, tone-deaf
campaign
in history) being guilty of reckless driving.
Nevertheless, the ad is brilliant, and
hooray for them for running it. I don't think McCain would have.
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