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Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but wake me when it’s over.

Said Ryan: “Bowhunting is my passion. Studying the strategy, preparing food plots, the strategy of where a dominant buck is living or will be moving and then being in position to get a shot, that’s really exciting. Half of it is getting ready for the shot.”

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  2. 2.

    different-church-lady

    “Hey Girl, this dominant buck is moved by you and he’s in position for his shot.”

  3. 3.

    Ann Rynd

    If his family didn’t have money he’d be out shooting up a cineplex in some Wisconson mall. Instead, he picked up a copy of Atlas Shrugged and became really dangerous.

  4. 4.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Shawn in ShowMe:

    I think more like. “Yes, shooting deer! That is an enjoyable pastime! You know, Paul Ryan ‘targets’ a deer, and I ‘target’ factories for closure to make them more efficient! We’re like twins!

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    That’s gonna help with the woman’s vote! Killing a beautiful animal with an arrow really turns me on! Whoo!

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    Google ad report: the text of your post has triggered ads for “disposable e-cigarettes” (whatever the hell those are) and GNC nutritional supplements, both of which are being sold using cheese/beefcake photography.

  11. 11.

    mai naem

    Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t remember the Dem speakers mentioning Biden in their speeches in 08 like they did with Paul Ryan today.

    Also too, I am having a hard time figuring out who I dislike more – Mitt, Countess Ann, Chris Christie or Paul Ryan. Then to pile on there’s Nikki Haley, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, John Sununu or Bob McDonnell. Seriously, too many Republicans to pick from. BTW did they ask Condi to show up so they could meet their maximum quota of black people at the convention.

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    Bowhunting is my passion. Studying the strategy, preparing food plots, the strategy of where a dominant buck social program is living or will be moving and then being in position to get a shot, that’s really exciting.

  13. 13.

    KG

    I’m watching clips f Christie’s speech on MSNBC and I’m trying to figure out if he understands that the Republicans control the House of Representatives or controlled Congress and the White House during the Bush Administration… It’s very disorienting

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    @mai naem:

    BTW did they ask Condi to show up so they could meet their maximum quota of black people at the convention.

    “Excuse me, sir? We’re going to have to remove you from the hall. You just threw nuts at a former Secretary of State.”

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @KG: someday someone is going to point out to Republicans talking about debt and failed Obama policies that 1) the Iraq War cost a butt load of money and 2) we are still living under the Bush tax cuts

  19. 19.

    max

    Said Ryan: “Bowhunting is my passion.

    Huh. I thought kicking poor people in the face was your passion. Or maybe doing Ayn (‘rhymes with swine’ and for good reason!) Rand?

    Studying the strategy

    This is a deer. This is a bow. Point the bow at the deer. Draw the string back and notch an arrow (important!) and let fly. Proceed to retrieve your arrow and follow the track of the fleeing deer. Rinse. Repeat.

    preparing food plots

    Ooooohhhhh. You give the little bastards ludes! That must make it much easier!

    the strategy of where a dominant buck is living or will be moving

    You’re just looking for nice rack, I guess.

    and then being in position to get a shot, that’s really exciting.

    This is some kind of overcompensation for inheriting millions of dollars, isn’t it?

    Half of it is getting ready for the shot.”

    People like you usually stick to Jaegermeister. Or so I hear.

    max
    [‘Please return to dissimulating about screwing old people – you’re just bad at this.’]

  20. 20.

    SatanicPanic

    @KG: Everyone knows that Barack Obama had 2 unobstructed years of total control of the Senate and the House. Therefore all bad things since the previous president (Bill Clinton, great guy) are his fault.

  21. 21.

    pragmatism

    You’ll never escape old man cheney’s shadow until you shoot your lawyer buddy in the face with an arrow, little Paulie

  22. 22.

    mai naem

    @efgoldman: Allen West was busy doing important work for the House Intelligence Committee ferreting out all the Pinko Commies who work in the Obummer administration. Luckily for the administration, Hillary sent out an email telling all State Department employees to not wear pink attire before he started his investigorating.

  27. 27.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    John Brabender, Santorum’s campaign guy on with Tweety now…

    Gaydar is locked in

    Nice rug…

  30. 30.

    clayton

    baiting

    it’s so old even King of the Hill tackled it.

    today’s hunter is tomorrow’s darwin example.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    OT (kind of):

    Gingrich, Cain, Santorum, etc., etc. all publicly suspended their campaigns.

    Has anyone seen or heard anything yet (now that the nomination is over) about any of them closing up or ending their campaigns?

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    Also, too, time for Ryan to participate in a “Deliverance” remake? Jon Voight will be all a-quiver at the chance to right that wrong.

    Squeeeeeeel!

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    I have not been able to watch the convention for more than a minute or two at a time, although I keep trying. It’s just awful–cringe-inducing. It is completely content-free, and each speaker is worse than the last.

    Chris Christie looked like he was wearing David Bryne’s big suit, and all he did was bloviate about American exceptionalism.

    I just turned to PBS’s recap and caught a few minutes of Reince Priebus. God, he looks and sounds like a bad impression of Sean Hayes on Will and Grace. He lumbers up to his big line: “Mitt Romney spent his life turning around failing enterprises. And America needs a turnaround. Specifically, we need Barack Obama to turn around and go back to Chicago!” The camera cuts to the crowd, and it looks like a hundred or so people on the set of The Price Is Right. Where are the teeming hordes we remember from classic political conventions?

    . . . Okay, fast-forwarded a bit and saw a semi-teeming wide shot of the crowd. But this is weak sauce. Every time they go in for a closeup of a crowd member, that person turns to grin at the camera, because there must be monitors all over the place that they are watching instead of the speaker. Sort of breaks the effect. I’m waiting for one of them to mouth “Hi, Mom!”

  38. 38.

    Anne Laurie

    OTOH, now you know how he lined up ‘dominant buck’ Mitt Romney and steel-tip-shafted his way onto the ticket….

  41. 41.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Mary G:

    Thanks for asking! Yes, so far so good. I took it at 2 AM Sunday and the only thing I noticed the next morning was a kind of ‘lag’, like my body would move and my mind would catch up to it when I stopped moving. Like a time delay of sorts that tapered off by Monday afternoon. It wasn’t bad though, plus not having any nausea or anything like that was fine with me. I went out for a 50 mile motorcycle ride tonight and enjoyed it immensely.

    Taking my 1 mg. iron tab daily and waiting to see how dose #2 goes this weekend. It sure would be nice if this was all the effects were to be but I’ll believe it when I experience it. :)

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @Mary G:
    Voter suppression is working. They’re in the act of stealing democracy and like the honey badger, don’t caregive a shit who notices.

  44. 44.

    Cacti

    I’ve not been able to watch any of the coverage.

    Who lit the cross for the opening ceremonies?

  45. 45.

    Hill Dweller

    @Cacti:

    I’ve never quite gotten the allure of killing animals for recreation.

    Growing up in the South, I did a lot of hunting as a kid. You quickly realize a couple of things: 1) most hunting is boring, and often cruel 2) a lot of people hunt just so they can tell people they hunt.

    Dollars to donuts Ryan has deer heads mounted all over his house. Poser.

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    Said Ryan: “Bowhunting is my passion. Studying the strategy, preparing food plots, the strategy of where a dominant buck is living or will be moving and then being in position to get a shot, that’s really exciting. Half of it is getting ready for the shot

    Wow. These clods are so transparent.

    “Hey, girl. You don’t need any birth control. And you don’t need to stir up any of those Akin Juices to block my sperm. Imma gonna provide enough meat to take care of you and our baby all winter long. You know you want it. And I am so manly, in a Biblical Objectivist mash up way, that I don’t even need my gun to take down a dominant bow. Just my hands and my bow. Just the way imma gonna take you down, baby. Anglo Saxon style.”

  49. 49.

    Cacti

    @Hill Dweller:

    Growing up in the South, I did a lot of hunting as a kid. You quickly realize a couple of things: 1) most hunting is boring, and often cruel 2) a lot of people hunt just so they can tell people they hunt.

    I grew up in whitetail country. But my father was never a hunter, so consequently, neither was I.

  51. 51.

    dance around in your bones

    I can see where hunting to survive when you had no other source of food was valid, but nowadays it just seems like a cruel thing.

    I mean, we all exist on the food chain, and everything eats something else to live….but the bow and arrow thing? SOOOO last century. Not necessary.

    One of the most hideous experiences of my life was seeing a deer hung up to bleed out in a friend’s father’s garage. Of course, I also saw cows hung up on a hook outside a farm I lived by…..and I kinda like steak, so I guess I am a hypocrite.

    The dogs loved it; they’d hang around and eat the discarded guts and all. Phew.

  52. 52.

    Suffern Ace

    Cripes. Why do I get the feeling that we’re going to have Kerry Campaign ii-republican style with Ryan and Romney suddenly stopping their campaign to inexplicably go duck hunting.

  53. 53.

    SectarianSofa

    Ha. I was doing some “research” and clicked onto the Merriam-Webster site, I think because of Freedom. Anyway, in the “Trends watch” section, which is there to make people wish they were living on the underside of Curiosity, there it was — “wonk”. If it’s still there, well, I didn’t click it — all I saw was the image, and that face, his himself’s. Blue eyed bowhunter. I believe I caught this pic of shame, if it’s gone from m-w.com : http://imgur.com/u6ErO
    I’m going to suppose it doesn’t define “wonk” in such a way that that picture shouldn’t have been there, according to the trendy word-fucking fuckers.

  56. 56.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Heh. Heh heh. Heh heh heh…

    Rep. David Schweikert has defeated fellow freshman Rep. Ben Quayle — son of former Vice President Dan Quayle — in a Republican primary in Arizona brought about by redistricting.

  60. 60.

    Bnut

    Blah dee blah blah blah. I watched Christie’s speech on replay after I got off work. What a shit. I don’t have time for their platitudes. I don’t have time for their shit. There are too many veterans and people with disabilities out of work, out of time for their top down economics to be the plan this time. It’s empty words and time worn lies. Obama has not made this economy a raging force for me and mine, but it’s better than whatever that fat tunnel-money grabbing liar from Jersey and his Ryan friends have planned. Fuck him. Fuck you. Fuck it all. +6 and still going.

  62. 62.

    Hill Dweller

    @Narcissus: No. As I was saying up thread, Ryan is a poser. I’d bet the farm he has deer heads mounted all over his house. He is trying to compensate for something.

  64. 64.

    sharl

    As supposed he-man hunter types, these wingnut financial pillagers are poseurs. I won’t be impressed until they emulate this reviewer of Amazon’s Fresh Whole Rabbit:

    Like many suburban homeowners, I like to kill and eat the wild animals that populate my backyard. To keep it sporting, I hunt naked, with my teeth and long sharpened fingernails as my only weapons. I’ve feasted on squirrel, raccoon, vole and numerous songbirds. But no matter how long I lay spread eagle and motionless in the hot noonday sun, I have never been able to outwit and catch any of the plump and juicy rabbits that hop just outside my reach and then bolt for the woods when I leap forward with a blood-curdling shriek. I have chased them at a dead run through the yards of the many unoccupied homes that surround mine but the pursuit always ends in frustration. But no more, thanks to Amazon. Every week, I order a fresh whole rabbit and affix it to a remote control car that is operated by one of my children. This way, I get the thrill of the hunt, and when the car’s batteries are exhausted, I can leap upon it, bury my teeth into the rabbit’s soft flesh and perform my ritual victory dance right there in the Walgreen’s parking lot.

    Now that’s the sort of primal spirit that will bring Ron Fournier and David Brooks back into the fold!

  65. 65.

    Hill Dweller

    OT: There is a pic from the Obama campaign floating around the Twitter machine of Christie and Willard, with their respective state’s awful employment figures during their terms, dubbing them “Team Not-Quite-Last Place”.

  67. 67.

    Anne Laurie

    @Steve:

    Was there actually a mystery speaker?

    That sideshow was originally scheduled for Thursday, but word is it’s been called off due to the shortened agenda.

  69. 69.

    Richard

    I went out with my older brothers and their friends to try some hunting when I was about 14. The experience of killing an animal for the hell of it left me feeling unclean. I never tried it again.

  70. 70.

    sharl

    @MikeJ: The top left caption in that graphic says “under Gov. Christie, New Jersey was 48th in unemployment.” Did they intend to say ’48th in employment’, or something along that line? Because as it is written, that doesn’t sound too bad for Gov. I-live-in-a-van-down-by-the-river,* unless it is one of those lowest-score-is-best situations, like in golfing.

    *h/t TBogg

  72. 72.

    Richard

    @Anne Laurie:

    That’s just too damn bad. I was looking forward to Reagan’s robotically animated corpse dancing around on stage likely Anne Ronmey’s horse.

  73. 73.

    Hill Dweller

    Erin Burnett was/is getting pummeled on the Twitter machine for her melodramatic reaction to Ann Romney’s speech.

  74. 74.

    MikeJ

    @Richard:

    I went out with my older brothers and their friends to try some hunting when I was about 14

    The best thing to hunt is mistletoe. It grows in the tops of trees and the most efficient way to get it down is with a shotgun. You get to walk around in the woods on a crisp autumn day, you to to fire a wicked loud shotgun that sounds cool, and you come home with greenery that compels women to kiss you.

    Plus, no blood, no hanging a deer from your basketball goal (a sight I remember from every fall weekend in my neighbourhood as a child).

    Woody Allen also had trouble with hunting.

  75. 75.

    sharl

    Jonny Dymond of BBC thinks Ann “You People” Romney delivered an excellent performance.
    Eh, whatev…

  77. 77.

    Hill Dweller

    @sharl: Dems are reticent to go after spouses. Journalists are reticent to go after Republican spouses.

    I didn’t see Ann Romney’s speech, but I’m not surprised some are complimenting her. The media has been trying to convince their audience that Ann is some sort of secret weapon, which is a mistake in my view, because she’ll never live up to the hype.

  78. 78.

    sharl

    A commenter on an earlier post – I think it was Ash Can – pointed out that the Twitter stream for #RNCpowergrab was raging fast and furious then. It’s largely quieted down now for the night, but man-o-man, there seem to be a lot of pissed off righties, over whatever stunt Rmoney’s people pulled in credentialing delegates.

    Michelle Malkin, aka the Rage Imp,* is in the thick of it. Minor league bloggrifter Dana Loesch better get it in gear and catch up, if she wants to maintain her pathetic franchise.

    *h/t TBogg…again

  80. 80.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Redstate was swamped with people commenting on the convention. I’m surprised that their recently ‘upgraded’ site could handle the 24 responses from the 13 people who dropped in to opine in Moe’s live stream of the convention thread.

    This is good news for Mitty!

  81. 81.

    Triassic Sands

    Imagine my surprise that Ryan’s passion is killing defenseless animals for sport.

  82. 82.

    someguy

    You know why he had to say he loves hunting bucks?

    Because it would have been too obvious if he’d said he enjoys hunting ‘coons with a big pack of dogs.

  83. 83.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Hill Dweller:

    The media has been trying to convince their audience that Ann is some sort of secret weapon, which is a mistake in my view, because she’ll never live up to the hype.

    Not to mention it makes Romney look like a wuss.

    Speaking off that, anyone one else noticing all the alpha male talk this time around? I think this the first time I’ve seen a party repeat over and over again their candidate is an alpha male. It’s not like the Dems have been attacking Romney that way.

  84. 84.

    TerryC

    Waiting over a pile of carrots and potatoes that you’re baiting the deer with isn’t hunting.

  86. 86.

    S. cerevisiae

    He’s a deer baiter, why does that not surprise me?

    Most real hunters consider baiters as “slob hunters” – weekend warriors who come up from Madison or Minneapolis with all their camo and toys and know nothing about deer behavior.

    You can’t eat antlers.

  87. 87.

    jayjaybear

    I believe deer baiting is actually illegal in some states, including here in PA. I come from a long line of hunters (although I don’t hunt myself), and when I saw “food plots” I had an instinctive wave of disgust. It’s cheating, period.

  88. 88.

    NancyDarling

    @jayjaybear: Yes! And if Ryan was a “real man” he would get himself a horse and learn to kill a buffalo with an arrow at full gallop like the Plains Indians did.

    I lived in north-central Montana when I was a kid and a lot of the ranchers hated the bow-hunters. Too often they didn’t make clean-kills and were too damned lazy to track the wounded deer and finish the job.

  89. 89.

    NancyDarling

    Also, someone here in NW Arkansas told me that Ryan “looks like a hound dog at deer camp trying to sneak up on a biscuit.”

  91. 91.

    M.J.

    The only reason Ryan can kill deer at all is because of government regulation.

    At the turn of the last century there were absolutely no deer in states like Iowa or Wisconsin. Government had to step in and call a halt to the slaughter.

    Does Ryan know this?

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