• The disgraceful success of Mitt Romney 
Chris Selley, National Post Capitalism  |Paul Ryan  | Postmedia’s Andrew Coyne thinks the glowing reception Paul Ryan received for his speech at the GOP Convention from the right-wing media, and the fixation among the left-wing media of the the supposed “lies” contained within it, overlooked what was really interesting about it. For example, “much spittle was invested in rebutting the ‘lie’ that [President] Obama had been responsible for the closure of the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisc. If you read the text, Ryan didn’t blame the president for closing the plant. Rather, his complaint seems to have been that he didn’t bail it out,” Coyne writes. Which is a little odd, surely, for “the darling of the Tea Party …, the champion of smaller government and free market capitalism, the reader of Ayn Rand.”   Published: 2012-09-24