First, given Ryan's lack of foreign policy or national security experience, it may signal the end of Romney's attempt too challenge President Obama's national security accomplishments.
Faced with this challenge, congressional staffers and close watchers of Lugar and congressional foreign policy say that the incumbent effectively ran in the other direction: Instead of falling back on his long record of national security accomplishments and bipartisan support, Lugar cast himself almost exclusively as an advocate for partisan and domestic issues.
For some, of course, shredding is simply another time-consuming chore, but for others, it offers a sense of security and accomplishment — the satisfaction that comes from decimating a pile of junk mail — however short-lived the victory.
It may be working job after job with the conflicting aspirations of financial security and accomplishment or pride.
Still, that pride in my labor doesn't quite translate into security in my accomplishments.
Despite the rank-and-file fears, party leaders insist that their incumbents will do well on Election Day, as long as they tend to local concerns and can point to legislative accomplishments on security.
He said that the improvement in security was his greatest accomplishment in office, and he emphasized the need to support the security forces "in their difficult mission" against an untamed insurgency.
A senior administration official, asked for a sign of progress or a recent accomplishment in security matters, struggled with the question until pointing to the extradition to the United States of a few men on drug charges, conceding they were not big fish.
We help one another rediscover what is, for today, for now, enough - enough growth, enough success, enough accomplishment, enough security, enough power, enough availability, enough money - even enough love.
Armed with reams of statistics, Mr Clinton laid out the accomplishments of Social Security and the challenges it now faced.
The Democrats have generally spent their energy defending past accomplishments, from Social Security to Medicare, rather than seeking to refocus that basic commitment to the middle class and the poor into ideas that reflect how the nation has changed since those laws were passed.
