QUOTE{S} OF THE DAY
“You’ve worked hard all your life. You’ve paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won’t be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you’ll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.”
Conservative GOP consultant David Frum describing the television ads that the Dems will be running regarding Mitt’s choice of granny starver Paul Ryan as his veep candidate.
Frum went on to add that the advert will not just draw blood, but as Henry Kissinger once said, it will have the additional merit of being true.
The Obama campaign is gonna hang Ryan around Mitten’s neck and then beat the two of them over their empty heads with Ryan’s granny starving budget.
As Charlie Pierce said,
“Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn’t believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary institution of that commonwealth: our government. The first three words of the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he’s ever given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can be channelled for the general welfare.”
August 11th, 2012 at 6:52 am
This choice just confirms for me that Mitt Romney is nuts. He picked as his running mate someone who has probably less foreign policy experience or knowledge than Romney does, has no military experience, has a thin record on social issues, has never worked in the private industry (as he so loudly barks about Obama), isn’t a minority, from the South or from a battleground state, and is best known for coming up with a plan that even conservatives acknowledge is an albatross. Does the guy WANT to go down in flames?
So basically the Rs want a ticket that consists of two white guys — one who is rich as Croesus and the other who wants to gut the old and the poor to help those who are rich as Croesus — who don’t have much to say about anything that isn’t about money. Even when they do talk about other issues, it always goes back to dollars, and it usually isn’t good news for a majority of Americans.
From my own personal perspective, it’s great news — Mitt basically boxed himself into another corner with his pick. But it still makes me wonder about America. This nutjob made it this far in the run for the Presidency. He is literally saying he wants to eliminate basic social protections and functions of government and turn the US into a giant shopping mall with a military attached, and people are fucking eating it up!
August 11th, 2012 at 7:41 am
When I saw this news upon waking up I couldn’t have been happier. Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s Sarah Palin; he gambled to play to the far right and once again it is going to back fire. If, after everything we know about Mitt and Paul, citizens vote for these two idiots to run the country, then the sane people will know the party is over, the lights have been turned off, and it is time to find a new venue to call home. Seriously.
August 11th, 2012 at 7:47 am
Oh, and if I were the Obama campaign, I would be getting ahold of that cute nephew of yours STAT to get a recording of his “Stand clear of the closing doors, please!” since it pretty much represents the philosophy of shutting down the entire government which is the mantra of Mitt/Paul. Pure marketing genuis!
August 11th, 2012 at 7:48 am
I have a problem. Part of me wants to slap the shit out of that smug, puppy-eyed face; the other half wants to tie the SOB down, rip off his clothes, and fuck him in the ass and mouth until he cums like the little bitch he really is. All of which I’m 99% sure he’d like.
But me? I’d probably need a lot of therapy once I was done.
August 11th, 2012 at 8:52 am
I remember being on a cross country vacation with my parents years ago. For a break, we stopped at a tourist trap. It was a Bible-themed tourist trap. Can I hear a Yuck! Anyway, in addition to the Jesus with the eyes that followed you everywhere, there was a display that depicted a very good-looking Satan. The suggestion was that nobody would be enticed by Satan if he could not present a pleasing countenance.
Between the two R’s, they make for a very handsome ticket. It is a shame that so much evil lurks behind that pretty picture.
It’s been said before, but it still boggles the mind that so many of R-Money’s supporters are those that will be hurt the most by his tax reforms and his VP pick’s notions to revamp elder care.
And btw, I don’t care how pleasing to the eye they are, I wouldn’t fuck either of them. Not with my dick or Kevin’s.
August 11th, 2012 at 9:35 am
I remember a Tom Tomorrow cartoon (which I can’t find because the archive is down for repairs) that presented Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and GWB as radical hippies coming up with a plan to make the Republican party so repulsive that the public would never, ever vote for them again. So they did things like, um, invade Iraq without provocation, for random example, in an effort to display how truly revolting the Republican platform was, and were baffled when the populace just kept lapping it up, and voting Republican, and voicing approval for everything they did.
It kind of feels like this announcement is that comic, in real life.
Did some Democratic hippie pagans cast a spell on the Republican party to destroy themselves through their own actions? Because that’s kind of what it looks like.
August 11th, 2012 at 10:45 am
I pretty much agree with Greg, the first commentor.
I’m guessing that Mitt is trying to solidify his rightwing, ultra conservative, talivangelical base who actually believe the crap that Ryan has said. Is Romney really that afraid, that his religious conservative Xtianist base will desert him because of his Mormon religion? Or, that the Tea Party nut jobs will remember RomneyCare is just ObamaCare in a lefty state?
Although, I’m asking myself, can Romney be that short-sighted? Or, that desperate? Or, that stupid?
But, then I think back to McCain and Palin. So, maybe the Republicans really do have some kind of inherent brain defect.
August 11th, 2012 at 10:55 am
More of Mitten’s pandering to the right!
August 11th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Romney’s choice reminds me of a t-shirt slogan: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits”. Republican pandering to greed and racism has convinced a significant portion of the population to vote against its own best interests. Do not overlook the existence of “good citizens” who have gone batshit crazy because that dark guy is in the White House viewing this pair of criminal twats as just what this country needs. Actively work against them.
August 11th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
OUR opinion of Ryan is not the point:
I actually think that Romney (or the RNC) made the BEST choice, out of those available:
1- Keeps the TP interested
2- Puts someone who can actually speak and fire up voters on the ticket, so Romney can act “presidential” and keep his foot out of his mouth
3- Promotes someone whom many repugnicans think can be a future President for them
4- Mollifies the evangelaclucks somewhat, because they can relate to his passion.
For us Gay folks of x age: We remember the description of why the improbable pairing of the wan Fred Astaire and the “waitressy” Ginger Rogers formed a combined image that was like 1+1 + 4
___She made him seem sexy, he made her seem classy
You can bet they polled this to death with their potential voters, so we can laugh at it, but we are foolish to think it hurts Romney
August 11th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
OUR opinion of Ryan is not the point:
I actually think that Romney (or the RNC) made the BEST choice, out of those available:
1- Keeps the TP interested
2- Puts someone who can actually speak and fire up voters on the ticket, so Romney can act “presidential” and keep his foot out of his mouth
3- Promotes someone whom many repugnicans think can be a future President for them
4- Mollifies the evangelaclucks somewhat, because they can relate to his passion.
For us Gay folks of x age: We remember the description of why the improbable pairing of the wan Fred Astaire and the “waitressy” Ginger Rogers formed a combined image that was like 1+1 = 4
___She made him seem sexy, he made her seem classy
You can bet they polled this to death with their potential voters, so we can laugh at it, but we are foolish to think it hurts Romney
August 11th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
@rupertmurdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Thank God! Now we might have a real election on the great issues of the day. Paul Ryan almost perfect choice.
YEP, THE DISGUSTING OLD FASCIST WHORE IS CORRECT
from their point of view
August 11th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Bob, it may not hurt R to be with R (R&R, hmm…rape and ravage? Rest and recuperation? Rolls Royce?), not so much with the insane freaks who’ve garnered so much press and control the GOP, but it will hurt him with anyone who has half a brain and can vote. That’s why the GOP is fighting so hard to make certain Democrats and (some) Independents don’t get to vote. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
And Mark, if I could show the world now that Ryan’s just a closet case who’ll wind up being outed in his 60s when he’s caught “wide-stancing” a cute, blond, undercover cop in the Milwaukee airport’s restroom, it’d be worth it. But like I said, I’d need therapy afterwards.
August 11th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Oh, and I meant having him outed would be to show what a lying, skanky, POS hypocrite he is, not just as regards monetary but also social issues and all his Randian crap.
August 11th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
A defining moment, and one that separates the haves from everyone else.
Thank some pie in the sky that there are fewer haves than the rest.
This is Obama’s election to lose, and he will not.