He Does Retail, Too

You are here: Magazine / He Does Retail, Too

Paul Ryan’s a more experienced pol than people realize.

Aug 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 46 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts

“Oh, don’t believe none of that stuff,” Eleanor Costantino, another senior citizen at the hot dog shop, told me when I asked her if she was worried about Romney-Ryan taking away Medicare. “It’s all nothing but a bunch of lies!”

“He’s going to save Medicare,” chimed in Eleanor’s friend Karen Combs from Cortland, Ohio. “There’s $700 billion under Obamacare coming out of Medicare, and seniors should be more frightened over that.”

John McCormack is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard.