There is only ONE QUESTION we need to get the MSM to ask Paul Ryan. Forget everything else.

[TrollBuster9090]

The Question: Were your stock trading activities on September 18th 2008 related to insider information you'd gotten from a confidential meeting you'd just attended with the President, Treasury Secretary and Chariman of the FED?
Did you use YOUR POSITION IN GOVERNMENT to make money?

This, of course, refers to him walking out of a meeting on September 18th 2008, making a BEE LINE to his telephone, and getting his stock broker to move all of his money out of banks he'd just found out were in trouble, and into Goldman Sachs, which he'd just found out was not in trouble.

http://www.the-richmonder.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-traded-on-insider-information.html?m=1

Why is this the most important question? Because it speaks volumes about his character.
In todays world of complicated economic debate, the public does not vote on complicated issues and nuances they can't follow. But every voter fancies themselves a good judge of CHARACTER, and vote for (who they perceive to be) the most 'honest' candidate. That's the one and only reason negative campaigning works. Because it targets the one issue voters universally consider themselves to be experts on.

Anything else can be blathered away with obfuscation. Something Republicans are good at. If you say Ryan wants to kill Medicare, he can obfuscate away with obscure details about a voucher program for Medicare that will be more efficient, and if he's got an HONEST FACE, and an HONEST REPUTATION, people will ACCEPT HIS WORD that it will be more efficient.


Therefore, to address this directly, the most efficient thing Democrats can do is attack their honesty by asking two questions, and two questions only. Forget the policy debates.


1. Romney must be asked: Where are the tax returns? What's in your tax returns that YOU DON'T WANT US TO SEE?

and
2. Ryan must be asked: Did you use your position in government (and insider information you obtained from it) to SAVE YOUR OWN SKIN from the FINANCIAL MELTDOWN of 2008? Did you trade those stocks as a result of confidential information you'd just gotten in that meeting that REGULAR Americans didn't have access to?

PS-as a sweetener, we need to remind everybody that it was (the singularly unpopular) ERIC CANTOR who first BLOCKED a bill that would prevent Congressmen from trading on insider information, and then WROTE A LOOPHOLE into it to allow this crooked practice to continue. Therefore, IT'S PART OF A PATTERN.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/20/cnn-cantors-office-wrote-loophole-into-insider-trading-bill/

[cali]

1. First we need to establish absolutely that he was at that meeting

secondly we need to absolutely establish that said meeting was held prior to his stock sales. We really have to nail down those facts first.

[TrollBuster9090]

2. True. nt

[RedStateLiberal]

3. One of the first things Romney said

when explaining why he picked Ryan was because he respects his character and judgement.

Tear down the likeability of both candidates. And when you hit one it affects the other - especially Romney because this is his first big decision as a candidate. If it's shown Ryan wasn't propely vetted, that could hurt him too.

I believe likeability is a large factor with independents and maybe even most Americans when choosing a president. I guess that's an easier way to decide for those who really don't pay close attention.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. I briefly read an article on TPM ...

Indicating that the meeting was held AFTER the end of trading and the trades were accomplished through an indexed account ... making it unlikely that ryan initiated the trade.

But that said, THE ONLY QUESTION THE MEDIA SHOULD BE ASKING RYAN IS:

"How many years of tax filings were you required to release to the romney campaign during the vetting process?"

And when his answer is anything more than 1 and 1/2 years, the media needs to ask romney:

"Why do you require more from your VP candidate than you are willing to provide the American people?"