What’s Wrong with the Romney/Ryan Ticket???

Just what is the Republican’s problem?  Why didn’t Republicans get a bigger boost from the convention and the addition of Paul Ryan to the ticket.  Perhaps a better way to look at this question is to ask, what is right about the Romney Ryan ticket.  Before you accuse me of being a card-carrying liberal, let me set things straight by saying that I have been an Eisenhower Republican form most of my life.  Having said that, I will also confess to NEVER voting a straight party ticket and also confess to having voted for Democrats, Independents, and Libertarians in the past as well as voting for Republicans.  As I see the problem, the only thing Romney Ryan have going for them and their platform is the fact that they are neither Democrats or Republicans. They will get the votes of Republicans who would never vote for a Democrat, from others regardless of party affiliation who will never vote for a black man, and finally from those who would never vote for Obama.  There are not enough of those voters to elect Romney/Ryan, however.  In addition, both Romney and Ryan have a problem telling the truth.  Most of their assertions have been proven to be inaccurate to say the least and some have been called outright lies.  Romney/Ryan have to convince thinking voters that they will not repeat the mistakes of the Bush administration but their economic policy statements echo the Bush/Cheney policies.  Their claim that Obama’s policies are not working are confronted with a record of 4.5 million jobs having been created and the worst thing they can say is a monthly job report of 95,000 jobs was disappointing.  When that is compared with the last republican administration that saw losses of 850,000 jobs a month, the not-working description does not quite fit.  In the area of foreign policy, one has to compare the ending of the war in Iraq, the killing of bin Laden, the Libyan situation, and the Arab Spring with the newspaper headlines of the foreign press that followed Romney’s overseas trip and cataloged his daily gaffes.  Finally, there’s the elephant in the room, Medicare.  Paul Ryan is synonymous with “voucher care” which will cost the republicans senior votes.  No matter how Romney/Ryan try to dodge this bullet, replacing Medicare with a voucher system will not win elections.  Finally, there’s the female vote.  While Romney has yet to hold a position for longer than he can hold his breath, Ryan is on record with siding with anti-female extremists in Congress having co-sponsored legislation.  Combine that with a Congress that has voted over 30 times to repeal “Obamacare”, at least that many times to make abortion more difficult, and also supported legislation invasive to women’s bodies and you have a record that can only attract voters to the other party.  Then, to make matters even worse, there are the Republican state governors and state legislatures that have enacted some of the most anti-female legislation since women won the right to vote.  This is not to also bring to mind the republican’s failed attempts to win a black vote by alluding to the welfare issue and their failed attempt to win Latino votes by promising to veto the DREAM act.  Finally, there is the fact that neither Romney or Ryan appear to be very likeable.  So other than the fact that they cannot campaign and are only successful at raising money combined with the reality that historically Republicans have not been able to govern, balance the budget, or create jobs, what’s wrong with the Romney/Ryan ticket??? Do you have to go any further than the fact that is is Romney and Ryan and everything else is just overkill?  Hell, even Republicans don’t like them and are only voting for them because they’re not Obama!