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Unfortunately for Obama, the fact that his campaign lacks any inspiration about what he promises in a second term does signal voters they are offered four more years. And unfortunately for Romney and Ryan, Ayn Rand could write books that sell to cults but middle class voters do not want to turn Medicare and Social Security into privatized plans that make profits for Wall Street at their expense.

The Republican press will champion the arrival of Ryan as the promised land of a second coming of a conservative majority while the Democratic press will chortle at running against someone whom they will paint as the disaster that will destroy Romney. They are both wrong.

What is really happening is that voters hunger and thirst for answers to problems that will make their lives better. And now the choice is between a status quo they do not like (Obama) and a change they do not want (Romney).

I give Romney credit for having the courage (for the first time I can remember) to make a choice about what he stands for. I give Romney credit for repositioning himself as a true candidate of (the wrong) change. But: The Republicans are now the party of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. They combine the operational godfather of vulture capitalism, Mitt Romney, with the intellectual strategist of vulture capitalism, Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanTrump, Biden have one debate goal: Don't lose RNC chair on election: We are on track to win the White House Kenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 MORE

It is the triumph of the right over the Republicans, and the triumph of Ayn Rand over the conservatives. If Obama is not Roosevelt or Kennedy, Romney-Ryan is not Reagan or Kemp.

This will leave voters remaining out in the cold, with neither candidate offering the changes that voters yearn for. Let’s cancel both the triumphant tributes and ritual denunciations of the gentleman from Wisconsin and stay tuned for the debates, which may well decide the outcome of an election in which voters are now offered the choice between two futures they do not want.