Republicans believe a strong performance by Paul Ryan at Thursday’s vice presidential debate could keep the reeling Obama campaign from regaining its footing.
The party is riding high after a series of new polls showed a dramatic swing in Mitt Romney’s favor following his victory over President Obama in last week’s presidential debate. Now some Republicans are salivating over the prospect of their energetic young star delivering another body blow to Team Obama.
Ryan has been working assiduously to prepare for Thursday night’s showdown in Danville, Ky. The Wisconsin lawmaker spent three and a half days last week in Virginia exclusively focused on debate prep and has been camped out in St. Petersburg, Fla., the past two days to study.
Campaign aides say he also met sporadically in previous weeks with former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who is serving as Vice President Biden’s stand-in.
The stakes are the largest yet in Ryan’s meteoric political career. In 2008, 69.9 million Americans watched Biden’s showdown with then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — more than three times the number who watched Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
Read More at The Hill. By Justin Sink.
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Paul Ryan, should be willing to be deprived of sleep 24 hours prior to his debate with VP Joe Biden, that way it might prove to be a fair debate. I suspect that Biden will come out like an attack dog that had someone pour Tabasco sauce onto his testicles, snarling at snapping at anything that Ryan say’s.
Unfortunately similar to Obama, there really is not anyone at home between his ears. Their might have been someone home a very long time ago, but that was once again, a very long time ago. I am very much looking forward to tomorrow evenings entertainment and I have little doubt, actually I have absolutely no doubt that Ryan will end up mopping the floor with Joe Biden.
Next week will prove to be e repeat of October 3, 2012, because no matter how hard Obama might try between now and then, he simply does not have sufficient brain matter left after all of the years of drug use, to be able to challenge governor Romney in a debate.