{"id":15564,"date":"2012-08-20T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2012-08-20T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T23:54:37","slug":"ryan-is-the-linchpin-to-enacting-conservative-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15564\/ryan-is-the-linchpin-to-enacting-conservative-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan is the Linchpin to Enacting Conservative Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/why-ryan-matters_650173.html \" target=\"_blank\">William Kristol<\/a> sums up the grassroots enthusiasm over the Paul Ryan pick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until last week, the Romney campaign was a few hundred operatives working hard in Boston trying to win a presidential election. Now Romney-Ryan is a groundswell of citizens spontaneously writing, volunteering, and proselytizing on behalf of a cause. The first was going to be a grueling uphill climb. The second could be more like running downhill with the wind at your back. Even in the second instance, of course, the candidate still has to jump the hurdles and avoid the obstacles. But it\u2019s a lot easier to prevail when you stand for a cause citizens are eager to join than when you\u2019re engaged in a campaign voters may diffidently support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just politically involved citizens who are energized by Ryan\u2019s elevation to be Mitt Romney\u2019s vice presidential running mate.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/ryan-s-raiders_650181.html?page=2\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Barnes<\/a> notes, the 87 House Republicans who won office in 2010 have helped heighten Ryan\u2019s profile by supporting his budget reforms.\u00a0 At least 70 of these are considered likely to be reelected this year, thus solidifying their importance in the caucus.\u00a0 By putting their party on record as supporting Ryan\u2019s vision, these House GOPers make Romney\u2019s embrace of Ryan a clear legitimization of conservative, market-based reform.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is the linchpin.\u00a0 Without him providing the bridge between the reform-minded conservatives in the House and the Romney campaign, it\u2019s very likely that a Romney Administration would be reluctant to move on a policy package the candidate did not run on.\u00a0 Now, Romney owns it.<\/p>\n<p>Let the proselytizing continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Kristol sums up the grassroots enthusiasm over the Paul Ryan pick: Until last week, the Romney campaign was a few hundred operatives working hard in Boston trying to win a presidential election. Now Romney-Ryan is a groundswell of citizens spontaneously writing, volunteering, and proselytizing on behalf of a cause. The first was going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,928,2879,862,160,802,1447,2729,748],"class_list":["post-15564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-conservative","tag-fred-barnes","tag-market","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform","tag-vice-president","tag-william-kristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15573,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564\/revisions\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}