Redstate's Erick Erickson issues warning to Romney

[ProSense]

Erick Erickson (RedState): "Not Enough"

by nuketeacher

I read it so you don't have to. Basically, Erick agrees with commetators here that real dissonance has been created by the competing messages of "Ryan" and "I've got my own budget ideas."

According to Erick:

Today, he announced a very bold pick in Paul Ryan. This forces the message to be about the economy and our long term future. It is a fight worth having and one we can win. But I am less and less confident that Team Romney, as presently constituted, can win that fight.

Picking Paul Ryan must be the beginning of a campaign shake up, not the end.

But there's more.

But Erick really wants a full throttle election battle over the Ryan budget.

Today, the Romney camp sent out a talking points sheet claiming that while picking Paul Ryan, Romney had his own budget plans. This is delusional and not credible spin. You pick Paul Ryan, you defend his budget. It is that simple. That one bullet point sums up a summer of dysfunction. The Romney team seems to be believing its own spin, which can often lead to disaster.

The real delusion is Erick's. As is his norm, Romney wants to have it both ways and be able to distance himself from the most draconian features of Ryan's plan while assuaging the far right that Erick represents. Whenever a particularly offensive part of Ryan's plan comes up over the next three months, Romney wants to be able to say I endorse the general plan but not that particular detail. Ryan will, of course, be a good foot soldier and nod.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/11/1119058/-Erick-Erickson-RedState-Not-Enough

Mitt has to be really careful. If he looks at Ryan sideways, he could unleash the wrath of the wingnuts.

Mitt is desperate and must encourage the lunacy, but that means he must accept being subordinate to his own VP pick.

This is transparently an effort to give Mitt some running room on the more inflammatory elements of the Ryan Budget—which he has already pledged to sign if it’s sent to him, as a Republican Congress would undoubtedly do—particularly Medicare and Medicaid. But pretending Romney’s going to order Ryan around on the budget—or that anyone in the GOP would side with Romney rather than Ryan on budget issues—is a big joke.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_08/his_own_drummer039173.php

Worst. Candidate. Ever.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. LOL! Hey, Erick - have a drink from the clue hose.

No, son, you can't "win" that fight.

Hell, even the Bush administration blocked the 2005 SS privatization act Ryan proposed for being too draconian.

But I do agree - Bring. It. This is one debate that many of us are licking their lips to have.

[warrior1]

2. I like this part.

Pope Buck made a comment that inspired this thought: Since Ryan is the "intellectual tour-de-force budget wonk nerd" in this alliance, let's start referring to them as the Ryan/Romney ticket. Romney's head will explode when he hears it. The reminders of Palin will be an added bonus.

[ProSense]

3. Yup. Palin redux.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Galt/Gekko.

Heh.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Ryan has NO private sector experience

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Nor foreign policy cred.

Which Rmoney desperately needed.

[jillan]

7. Once again the GOPers pick a veep that will bring out the crazies.

[ProSense]

10. Yup, it's

disappointing a lot of people. n/t

[nc4bo]

8. I wonder if that Mittens' gaffe, "President Ryan" was actually more a revelation then gaffe.

Things that make you go hmmmmmm......

what a circus from hell this is going to be.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Phyllis Diller laugh

[BeyondGeography]

11. If Romney had any balls he'd tell Erickson to fuck off

He's the nominee, after all, and they're going to hold their nose and vote against Obama anyway.

But he doesn't.