“What’s happened over the past four years was not a Bill Clinton Democrat”

“What’s happened over the past four years was not a Bill Clinton Democrat,” Ryan said referring to Obama. “Bill Clinton gave us welfare reform, Bill Clinton worked with Republicans to cut spending and to get a good budget agreement in place. Bill Clinton’s commission gave us Medicare reform that we are proposing right now. We don’t have a Bill Clinton Democrat. We have someone who went far to the left so it’s a different kind of approach or philosophy of the role and goal of government.”…

It wasn’t just Paul Ryan who mentioned Clinton, and the praise was hardly uniform. Former California governor Pete Wilson was also on hand and asked the crowd of about 200 people if they had “watched that little show last night? The return of Bill Clinton?”

“You know, all through that … all I can think of was the last time I seen him shaking his finger,” Wilson said, referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. “‘I did not have sex with that woman.’ I figured that anyone who can redefine sex as he did in that moment is fully capable of redefining economics, which he tried to do last night.”