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| Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) |
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced
his disinclination to running for President in 2016. As I had written four years ago, Ryan is doing the right thing.
As a failed Vice Presidential candidate in from 2012, Ryan does
not have a nationally recognized record of campaign victory. Despite his tremendous showing in one debate against
Vice President Joe Biden, Ryan could not heat up a watered down ticket headed
by moderate Mitt Romney, who attempted to veer right after a protracted primary
season, then a fraught general election fight.
Moreover, Ryan’s record in the House is not as commendable
as it could be. He brokered the necessary sequester during 2013, then backed
away from certain cuts to forge compromises, with continued spending and debt.
While passing legislation to reform pensions for veterans, he neglected to
demand reforms of unsustainable entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid. Despite devising a great financial and domestic agenda in 2012,
he never introduced, let alone implemented them in 2013 or 2014. He even announced
his support for immigration “reform”. At that point, I had lost all respect for
Ryan.
Before Congressman and Committee Chairman Paul Ryan mulls
another national bid, he needs to get his own house in order: ditch amnesty for
illegal immigrants, reduce the tax code, replace Obamacare with free-market
reforms, remove the immense kickbacks to Big Business (including Big Pharma),
empower the severeal states against the federal government, and support Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker for President in 2016.
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