Brings up quite a few points I'm concerned with myself as well: 1) It's his 7th term. He's worked for the government his entire life. I don't have enough of an immediate knee jerk reaction to just discredit him but it doesn't exactly jibe well with his talking points... 2) His scary, scary plan isn't really that impressive after all - minor tinkering on many issues and no defense cuts. 3) From a libertarian perspective, he sucks on many, many issues (pretty much everything non-economic).
That alone should disqualify anyone from ever running for public office. I'm quite serious. It should actually be a consitutional amendment: "If thou hast never worked in the real world for at least a score prior to seeking office, thou is automatically disqualified from holding said office."
And here are twelve talking points for liberals - nine of them I don't care about but the other three are worth pointing out: You could presumably defend it with the "no tax increases whatsoever" argument but I just don't really buy that. Not really concerned about the argument they're making here but with the underlying point that he isn't planning to cut military spending. Nothing spectacular but still worth keeping in mind.
Meh. Over the next few weeks, he'll be the media's darling and it'll look as if he's the one running for President. Then the people running the campaign will stick him in a back room somewhere and tell him to keep his mouth shut because he's overshadowing the boss, inadvertently creating a vacuum in which everyone will take a harder look at Romney and ask themselves, "Why are we voting for this guy again?"
"These aren't the Republicans you're looking for." Ryan is going to spend the next three months proving that it's simply impossible to be a disciple of both Ayn Rand and Jesus Christ. He'll have to abandon one to prop up the other, and it'll cost him followers of both.
Nonsense. Unless you think your own interpretation of each teaching is the only interpretation possible.
I see alot of people trying their damndest to paint Romney and Ryan as fanatical religious zealots. Time for a new playbook, parasites.
It's been hilarious hearing all those Republicans whine about how having Ryan at the top of the ticket is going to hurt them in local races. Ryan was a very weak pick and it practically insures that not only will Romney lose but Republicans will now lose several house seats which they other wise would have won. Pander to the crazies and you'll always end up worse off.
Ah, so you hear her, too. Are there others? See, I thought maybe you'd want to explain why someone promoting a "personhood amendment" was not doing it for religious reasons, but I guess that's beyond your capabilities.
The guy tried to get all hormonal birth control outlawed. Most reasonable people would agree that's a pretty fanatical religious zealot thing to do. Face it, the guy is just another big government right wing nutjob with a flair for religious zealotry.
The GOP and its supporters have glossed over those contradictions for decades, since the 19th Century perhaps. Why should they affect Ryan now?
