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This fellow has never voted GOP in his life, loves Slick Willie’s slick salesmanship. Good guy, hard and smart worker whose worked his way up from the very bottom and a solid friend except on the poltical level.

So, during the conversation he asked my what I thought about Romney turning things around. I gave him my honest assessment.

Yesterday, we talked again. He informed me that he and his wife will be voting for Romney in November.

Since Obama was elected, and with all their bills paid (including house) he invested over $500K in new equipment to start his own business. A little over a year ago, they liquidated this new and still unused equipment. He is now working for a “big box store” for far less income than his skills are worth.

Living in Texas, that switch is not likely to have much of an impact. However, how often is this same thing occurring in “swing states.”

This is reminiscent of my mother whispering to me in 1988 that she voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980, a first for her not to vote Dem. In a long line of Southern Democrats from her ancestor, Gov. Alexandre Mouton a staunch “Andrew Jackson Democrat.”

She is so far over on the left side of things she cannot even see the middle.

She knows PR and his family very well.

What she told me was that he is and has always been a class act. He is exactly as he appears, genuine, and completely real. He believes in what he is doing, and is committed to doing it.

She told me she has donated to every campaign he has run, and will certainly donate more money to him now… she cannot get herself to pull the lever for the ticket though.

I’ll admit on the cold calculation level I thought it was probably a mistake because much as I like Ryan’s policies, I didn’t think he’d be as successful on the edge states where he needs to be. I figured Rubio was the better cold calculation, even though on a personal level I’d like for him to stay in the Senate for Florida, and maybe run down the road. Happily those cold calculations can go on the scrap pile after the first couple days of the new campaign. As I noted in Moe’s diary a little while ago, Ryan seems to have been just the additive Romney needed to get fired up in a nearly Reaganesque way.

We’re going to win.

Obama’s performance has made it theirs to lose.

this is a sane, excellent review of where things are. the result will be determined by what happens between now and November 6, but Governor Romney made an outstanding choice – and there is nothing but good signs so far.

a couple good weeks and the convention will be a love-in, reminscent of 1980. Governor Romney went WAY UP in my estimation with this pick – and that is just great news all the way around.

thanks for a really sound piece of work.

I was so pleasantly surprised he chose Ryan. Definitely an energizing pick. I did not know Romney had that kind of courage in him, to be honest. The base will now be 100% behind Romney and energized to boot.

He has nothing to run on except anger because he has nothing that has moved this country forward except platitudes and casting blame on his predecessors. That works for a while – it did work for a while – but when people look at the real numbers, the real deficits, the real spending and then compare how they’re living their lives in the future under whatever Obama wants, they’re going to make the connection.

Obama TOOK ADVANTAGE of the crisis for his own partisan political concerns. His record of failure started back in 2008, prior to his election. Nobody should be surprised we have to kick him out of office in 2012, it was basically a given, even if he had inherited a *booming* economy he still would have screwed it up. What he’s done instead is to take a bad problem and make it much, much worse.

but romney’s people saw that mourdock and cruz both outperformed the polls and also noticed the energy that we tea partiers brought to the campaigns. whether the establishment republicans like it or not, the tea party is now a vital part of the republican base. and the choice of ryan as VP is definately an acknowledgement of that.