As soon as Paul Ryan (R-WI) was named Mitt Romney's choice as a running mate, the democrats began running also. On all the "news" and opinion programs all weekend long it was the Ryan-Romney budget or the Romney-Ryan budget. It didn't matter who's name was first. It was the beginning of a massive attack by the Obama campaign, the DNC, and the hanger-ons.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz appearing on Fox News Sunday must have said twenty or more time that Romney had fully embraced the Ryan budget. All of Schultz's stats were from the 2011 Ryan led budget, not the current one. Fox's John Roberts caught her on that, but in typical Wasserman-Schultz for she ignored and continued. In fact each time ROberts found some discrepancies in Wasserman-Schultz's arguments, she would spin her head around and say, "The Romney-Ryan budget . . . "
While the democrats and the Obama campaign will continue along that line, like so many things it is full of distortions and little truth. Romney, however, did strike back on Sunday with little media coverage saying the Republican ticket will be running on his budget framework - not the one developed in the House.
The Romney-Ryan ticket had its first television interview on CBS' 60 Minutes. During the interview flanked by Ryan, Romney said, "“I have my budget plan as you know that I've put out. And that's the budget plan that we're going to run on.”
Nevertheless the Obama surrogates fanned out to condemn Ryan and the Ryan budget.
The truth about the Romney budget plan will only come forward if Romney and Ryan continue to attack the Obama record on the economy.
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