2. The facts that every Romney-Ryan supporter needs to memorize and repeat at every opportunity: The Ryan budget spends just as much on Medicare as the Obama budget. The Ryan budget keeps traditional Fee For Service Medicare for those who want that option. The Ryan budget also allows future seniors to have choices of other plans that might offer the same or better service at a lower price. The Obama budget just cuts Medicare spending centrally and leaves future working-class and middle-class seniors with no realistic options other than just taking what the centralized rationing board chooses to give them (or not give them as the case may be.)
3. And something else that can’t be repeated enough: It isn’t just that the Obama budget raises taxes. The Obama budget raises taxes and cuts Medicare. And it isn’t just that the Obama budget raises taxes and cuts Medicare. It is that the Obama budget raises taxes, cuts Medicare and still leaves us on the path to national bankruptcy. This isn’t a bad starting place for Romney-Ryan.
I think it may be a shock for some to learn that the Ryan budget "spends just as much on Medicare as the Obama budget." While this is true, Ryan's overall end is completely 180 degrees opposite of that of President Obama. Ryan's end is a return to constitutional government; Obama's end is State paternlism, where every need of the citizen and every stroke of bad luck is met with open arms from state administrators. To get back to constitutionalism though, you cannot let the means destroy the ends. This is always important to remember (and so is this fact, which Romney/Ryan should be shouting from the rooftops from here until November: That Obama does change Medicare and Romney/Ryan does not).
UPDATE:
Glenn Reynolds has the best line I have seen on how Romney/Ryan should attack Obama on Medicare:
You know what will kill Medicare as we know it? Medicare as we know it.
Perfect.
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