FOXNews.com: With Ryan on ticket, Romney will make campaign about big ideas

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With Ryan on ticket, Romney will make campaign about big ideas Aug 11th 2012, 16:13 Editor's note: part of this commentary is taken from an interview with Fox News contributor Karl Rove that aired on Fox News Channel with Bret Baier on Saturday, August 11. If Republicans make this election about little choices, victory is less certain. If the election is about big things, it is more certain. Mitt Romney signaled he will make the race about big things - putting America's fiscal house in order and renewing prosperity by cutting the deficit, reforming the tax code  and saving the social safety net. Vice presidential picks often times say more about the presidential candidate than the vice     presidential candidate.  That's the case today.  Last November, Governor Romney gave a speech on entitlement reform that was not much watched at the time. Not much attention was paid to it but in it he embraced the reform of  the social institutions, reform of the budget process, a serious effort to reduce the deficit.  By his choice of Ryan today, Romney has signaled that this will be the focus of his fall campaign -- a reformed conservatism aimed at getting the country's fiscal house in order.  Paul Ryan will be an excellent partner to Governor Romney in this effort.  Governor Romney had a choice when picking a running mate -- to be bold or comfortable, another choice would have been political or governing. He choose bold and he choose governing. I think that's going to serve him well in the remaining months of the campaign. Democrats are going to jump on this pick, saying we did so well with the television ad in which we had a Paul Ryan-like character pushing grandma over the cliff, that we'll be able to do much better among seniors. First of all, seniors are deeply concerned about the deficit. Paul Ryan will be able to patiently explain to them what he and Governor Romney advocate. Governor Romney's endorsed the House budget. The president has no plan to ever balance the budget. His plan calls for for ever increasing deficits much bigger than those, for example, that Greece is suffering under today.  Paul Ryan will be able to explain this. He is a great campaigner. His district was carried by Barack Obama, Al Gore and Bill Clinton, twice. Yet  he wins consistently in the mid to high 60s. He is able to frame these issues. He and Governor Romney will  carry the fight against Democrats on deficit spending and America's growth.    Karl Rove is a Fox News political analyst and a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He is the author of "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight" (Threshold Editions, 2010).

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