You can’t make this stuff up. Yea, I know this is old news.
Staying on the Political theme, Betsy declares this a Good Week for the GOP. Any week that Huckabee decides not to run, Donald Trum drops out and Newt skewers himself is apparently a good one. It’s easy to agree with her.
More on Newt here.
So there’s his campaign slogan in the making. “Newt 2012: Don’t Be Messing With Entitlements.” A surefire winner with 80-85 percent of the 65-and-over vote.
Sounds like a winner if you’re a liberal, progressive or a Boulderite.
Unfortunately (owing to voter ignorance) the big three entitlements remain the third rail of American politics.
I vaguely recall that 80% of voters polled preferred no changes at all the any of the big three entitlements.
Ergo, anybody who embraces Ryan's (extremely modest) plan in the general election could be politically doomed — just ask Sharron Angle.
On the other hand, failure to embrace it might spell doom in the primary (or not).
I would hope that a majority of primary voters would embrace Ryan's plan. We'll see.