Were the Catholic bishops wrong about Paul Ryan's budget plan?

Yes, says this post over at the Creative Minority Report:  The Bishops Were Wrong on the Ryan Budget.  Now that Ryan is Mitt Romney's running mate, the bishops' critique of his budget proposals is likely to get a lot more press.  It is always good to remember that while the bishops have a charism to teach faith & morals, they are not infallible on economic policy matters.  Their judgment when it comes to the nuts and bolts of the economy is subject to criticism just as much as anybody else's.

Related item:  Ross Douthat has a great post on why Romney picked Ryan as his VP choice.  Douthat identifies a key weakness of the team when it comes to appealing to economically strapped middle class  voter:

[It] is the (understandable) fear among hard-strapped voters that Republican policies will benefit the rich more than the middle class. Ryan’s association with entitlement reform is at best orthogonal to that weakness, and at worst it exacerbates it substantially. 

That's spot-on, I think.  The Romney-Ryan ticket has to make a convincing argument to the middle of the country that their economic proposals will be better for the middle class than the current trajectory of the country under Obama administration.