Saturday, October 6, 2012
10:30 PM
Ryan calls Romney 'man with a bedrock principles'
MILWAUKEE -- Paul Ryan told a fundraiser Saturday night he thought of Ronald Reagan while watching Mitt Romney's performance in the first presidential debate, calling his running mate "a man with a bedrock of principles."
"I was so excited to see that
because I was thinking to myself, finally people are seeing the guy we
know," Ryan said, according to a pool report.
"The lesson to be learned is
two lessons, No. 1 tell people who you are, what you believe in, what your
principles are and what you will do," Ryan said. "Second thing is, get elected
and then do it. That’s what we need in this country. That is what Scott Walker
and Alberta Darling did."
Ryan called this period "the choice phase of this campaign" and said the president isn't running on his record.
"Look at Europe. Look at how it
ends," he said. "The problem we have is we've had decades of politicians making lots of
empty promises to voters to get re-elected. And pretty soon if we don’t watch
it, we have a debt crisis and those empty promises become broken promises."
Ryan also told the crowd it was good to be home.
"Coming off the plane, it was
perfect weather," he said. "To me, nice and brisk. The first thing I said, you know the
deer are moving now."
-- By Staff
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