Mitt Romney has done the voters a favor. With the selection of Paul Ryan, he has made this election about ideas. President Obama is offering class envy, continued crushing debt and deficits, and higher taxes on “the rich”–in other words, more of the same. Romney and Ryan, by contrast, are offering solutions for an economy that has a record nearly four straight years of unemployment over 8 percent (with a real jobless rate nearly double that), a $16 trillion national debt, 105 million people on the government dole, including 47 million on food stamps, etc. Obama is saying this is the best we can do, while R&R say America can and must do better.
So the choice is clear. Can the American people still stomach adult leadership? We’ll find out in November. In the meantime, I can’t wait for the debates.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
