Saturday, August 11, 2012

Ryan? The perfect pick…. TWO WEEKS AGO


Ironically I wanted Ryan to run for president, OVER ANYONE ELSE
Maybe a guy not afraid to take on Geithner, and Obama face to face is the right guy at this moment. Certainly from the standpoint of COMMITTING REAL ACTS no one is superior to Mr. Ryan.
But Romney needs a totally scary attack dog today. If the nation is going to have the Romney portrait complete before he can spend a dollar of nominee’s money then the right guy to ensure the priority, which is the defeat of this administration, then Chris Christie is the guy needed.
Ryan is going to be a totally superior debater, totally superior convincer, totally superior point maker. But when they attack him they way the have Romney, in commercials accusing one guy of being a murderer and the other guy hoping you die quickly, and PLANNING to make it so, as you starve on reduced social security benefits, is he the right guy to turn that around in the mind of someone in Ohio who just got a job back after being unemployed for a year?

When they say the presidential nominee doesn't care if you lose your insurance and die, and the vice presidential nominee doesn't even want you to have insurance, can Ryan answer them and make them suffer?
We will see.
The attack on Ryan is one we have already seen.
‘Ryan plans to destroy social security and medicare to balance the budget on the graves of the old’
We will see.
One thing is for sure, the republicans had better have their commercials ready to explain how irresponsible, amateurish, submissive, morally weak EXCEPT towards republicans, and incompetent Mr. Obama is, and how that means his continued failure will not only kill america, but your way of life, and worse still, DIRECTV, DISH, Time Warner, and FIOS.
Get me?

13 comments:

Pastorius said...

Bad pick. Romney just threw the election, just like John McCain.

Always On Watch said...

Pasto,
How do you figure that?

Always On Watch said...

Epa,
When they say the presidential nominee doesn't care if you lose your insurance and die, and the vice presidential nominee doesn't even want you to have insurance, can Ryan answer them and make them suffer?

"they say"

Yes, perceptions matter.

But are Romney and Ryan really that way?

Besides, no matter WHAT, "they" will say whatever -- and the media will continue to shill for Obama.

Pastorius said...

It's a demographic thing.

Romney and Ryan are two white guys.

Mitt Romney is the perfect stereotype of white guy, and Ryan is almost that as well.

Whites are a minority in this country.

Yet whites make up a large portion of those who would vote for a Republican for President. White men are pretty much wrapped up. If Romney wanted to win he had to bring in other constituencies, which he could have done by picking Rubio or Jindahl.

Instead, he doubled down on his own stereotype. It is not that a white man can not win the Presidency. It is that a stereotype white man stands little chance of winning the Presidency if he continually doubles down on stereotype.

As Romney does, and has done, and has now proven he will do again and again.

This is yet another boneheaded, tone-deaf, and impotent choice by the Republican party.

Say goodbye to the election, and say goodbye to the economy. We're in it for the long haul. Cuba, here we come.

Pastorius said...

Back in the early 80's, Devo made fun of this stereotype creating this image for themselves:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=devo+hair&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1680&bih=843&tbm=isch&tbnid=s6aDUk9DYVEf5M:&imgrefurl=http://grantsgoldenbrand.com/blog/%3Fcat%3D19&docid=1FGGrTtamL_wGM&imgurl=http://grantsgoldenbrand.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/devo-pomps.jpg&w=600&h=674&ei=V2QmUOzaDIWgrAH17ICICw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=707&vpy=136&dur=159&hovh=238&hovw=212&tx=144&ty=96&sig=110062219046898611453&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=153&start=0&ndsp=34&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:81

The image has become only more and more of a mockable stereotype in the years since.

That the Republican Party believes this is a winning image in this day and age, is sad.

Always On Watch said...

Pasto,
We're going to disagree on this matter.

Yes, they are both white bread. However, surely to God we haven't as a nation come to the point that we have to use a quota system for political tickets.

My preference has been Jindal, but he has some drawbacks too as far as electability is concerned.

Who was your preference? I mean, somebody who hasn't already refused to run as the GOP VP.

Anyway, there is a long way to go until November.

Always On Watch said...

Pasto,
I was under the impression that the majority of voters were white -- despite the demographics of the entire population.

Pastorius said...

It really is not about my preference. This is where Republicans get it wrong. It has nothing to do with our preferences. It has to do with what will sell. What is marketable.

Jindahl or Rubio would have been been the best pick, imo.

Always On Watch said...

THIS probably hurt Rubio's chances.

Pastorius said...

Maybe so. Jindahl would have been there too, however. Wouldn't he?

WC said...

ROVE !! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU !!
Take your millions at Crossroads and go after Obama. Forget defending against his lies. Go after his. HARD !! And you don't have to lie to do it. Get nasty. Get mean. Get revenge. Create so much negativity in the minds of the electorate between your PAC and Obama's lie, the voter won't know who to believe and ... maybe...just maybe...they will consider the issues. That's my .02 cents.

Always On Watch said...

Jindal's positions are a bit different from Ryan's. Too conservative to appeal to moderates? Maybe.

The GOP has let the "farm system" languish for decades. Hence, the dearth of candidates. As far as I can tell, Ryan is the only "rising star" in the GOP.

Ah, well. We shall see what we shall see.

Oh and one more thing....Had it not been for Jimmy Peanut's consummate failure -- and those long lines at the gas stations -- Reagan would not have been elected in 1980. Has Obama reached the 1980 tipping point? How would we KNOW? The media shill for Obama much more than they ever did for Carter.

Epaminondas said...

Ryan is like Reagan in that he is about the philosophy. That is the marketing idea which has to take hold. The Ryan budget is the RESULT of the idea that no debt is no extreme position.
Lincoln said we are a nation which has chosen the dollar AND the man, but that forced to choose we must choose the man.
The republican challenge is to explain why choosing them IS choosing the man, while explaining why and how the dems are shushing them all into potter's fields.

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