In no particular order, here is what Team Obama is already saying about Ryan, and what it means and how to respond.

1. Ryan is not presidential
- 14 years in Congress, when Obama had … 3?!?!

2. Ryan never wrote a paycheck
- odd and hypocritical but it never stopped the Democrats. seriously, they WILL go there and not note the irony that neither did Biden or Obama have private sector experience of note, and that Ryan balances a ticket oozing with private sector experience, which Obama Team is attacking as well. In short, no matter who you are and what you’ve done, if you are GOP – it’s evil.

3. Ryan went to college on Social security
- this reminds me of the awful attacks on Clarence Thomas (“how dare he be against affirmative action when he was for it!”)
- apparently its a crime to benefit from the govt and not be locked in with socialist ideology

4. The race will be about the Ryan budget
- GOOD!
- why good, if the election now includes all the ugly things they can say about the Ryan budget “cutting this, cutting that …” etc. Reason is simple – it becomes an election about IDEAS and Romney/Ryan has an advantage because we will be talking about things more serious that phony allegations about romney’s character.

5. Ryan budget wont balance for 28 years
- true, but Obama adds $10 trillion in debt in 10 years, so this reduces that trend and moves us to balance

6. Ryan budget will gut (insert favored program) … invariably, these are NOT the boondoggles and programs that take up hundreds of billions but “Meals on Wheels” and other popular ‘statue of liberty’ type propgrams
- C’mon gets serious, we have $4 trillion in spending and the Ryan budget is not about that but a whole lot more. Cutting spending across the board is vital.

7.Ryan will end medicare as we know it
- This is not new. This has been a staple of Democrat demagoguery for decades, and is brought up any time the GOP tries to fix the ever-expanding entitlement system. now that Obama has blown up entitlements fully, with obamacare, a serious amount of reform is vital, and its great to know Romney wont flinch, which is what Ryan pick signals. He WILL get it done. I for one am flummoxed by the constant stream of Democrat lies and cannot adequately respond when in fact Medicare is a flawed system heading for bankruptcy and needs reform and change or it will implode. The best retort is to say just that, to say that Democrats are the one endangering the whole entitlement system through their fiscal charades trillion-dollar deficits and making promises to spend money we dont have on programs headed to fiscal waterfalls.

8. The Newt playbook – Ryan wants to kill granny
- Ryan, like Newt, is smart, articulate and wonky, and unlike Newt has the normal family and lack of personal skeletons that will make ‘dog on the car’ attacks muted. But that wont stop Team Obama from personal attacks. Any GOP architect who cant be Stupid(TM) must be Evil(TM). They cant pick the Palin/Quayle/Bachmann template off the shelf, so they go with the Newt one. Ryan will be the new Newt (see 1996), and he has served up the right-wing budget to play the role. See anyone not wedded to the Obama plan for ever expanding Goverment is all about hobbling the BreveNewWorld of GovernmentGoodiesForAll,

9. Ryan voted for everything Bush wanted
- never mind that Obama voted for TARP too. That the Democrats didnt undo Medicare Part D or No Child Left Behind, etc. This is all about simplistic demonization and if Bush=bad, then every Republican=Bush all the time. talking about policies of what works and what doesnt and what Democrats actually want will debunk and deflate this, or at least devolve it into the choice.

The CHOICE:
At the end of the day, the attacks need to be rebutted, and it will end up with a choice: Romney/Ryan will make choices that are better for America because they will help grow the economy and create more jobs via a less burdensome Government. Every attack on Ryan is really an attack on the IDEA OF LIMITING GOVERNMENT AND GIVING TAXPAYERS MORE OF THEIR OWN MONEY.

Obama’s policies are proven failures and the policies of free enterprise and limited Government are proven successes. Only by distorting and lying about what the choice is about can the left hope to win. With Ryan’s help, the Romney/Ryan ticket will make the real choice front and center with the voters, and that is the path to victory.