Heritage loves Paul Ryan

The Heritage Foundation has laid the future of the Movement at the feet of Paul Ryan.

He's young, charismatic and conservative.

The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank in Washington,
has anointed this rising GOP star "the leader of the future of the conservative
movement."

...

Elected to Congress in his 20s, he's a self-described nerd.

"I've been reading federal budgets since I was 22-years-old," he said. "That's
kind of a weird thing to admit. It kind of makes me look like a dork."

So instead of snorting coke and agitating banks, Paul Ryan read budgets?.. Hmmm...

Still, Ryan is comfortable zinging the White House budget director by day and hobnobbing at the White House with the chief of staff and treasury secretary by night.

He's confident, not cocky -- he picks up his own dry cleaning -- but he's clearly being groomed. Ryan, however, is wary of party elders. Like last year's GOP presidential nominee, John McCain, he fancies himself a reformer, blaming "them" -- the nameless Republican old guard -- for abandoning principle and shrinking the party.

"A lot of them have retired. A lot of them have lost their elections, and so the way I see it is we've got a younger breed of reformers in the party," he said. "That breed has got to take over and become a reform party."

Ok. Great. But I have to call BS on this one. John McCain didn't yell at Republicans for abandoning priciples; he was the LEADER of those who abandoned principles. Ya know, that's why we lost in November. John McCain, Arlen 'Lasagna Cheeks' Specter and all the rest of those frauds need to retire and get out of the way.

Ryan is part of a new wave of a sort of "in your face" conservatism that isn't afraid of what they believe like those Canadian wannabes in the northeast. You can include Jindal and Palin and all the others on the Patriot List.

Paul Ryan, by being named the Movement's next leader, has moved up one rank on the Patriot List. Congratulations, Ryan. You must be proud.