Joe Biden, Opposition Researcher....

No doubt Biden will focus on that passage and others like it, in order to make the “47 percent” remark stick to Ryan in a way that President Barack Obama refused to make it stick to Romney in their debate last week. But as Ryan points out in Young Guns, the difference between the two parties is that Democrats “want to see America hurtle past the point of no return.” That is an insight that has been confirmed, lately, by the Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia,” describing a cradle-to-grave state as its paternalistic ideal.