Commentor Thoughtcrime points out:
“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan” is an anagram for “My ultimate Ayn Rand Porn.”
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(Ted Rall via GoComics.com)
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I {heart} Paul Constant:
If we’re being generous, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan is a man of contradictions. If we’re being honest, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan is an idiot. Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick has problems beyond the basic teabagger contradiction of claiming to be for small government then passing an obscenely large military budget, voting to ban gay marriage, and enacting laws that lessen a woman’s access to abortion and birth control….
In the days since his announcement, Romney has all but disappeared from the right-wing consciousness, with conservative bloggers singing hosannas in Ryan’s name and ignoring the guy at the top of the ticket. It’s a curious event that we haven’t seen before… since 2008, when Sarah Palin eclipsed John McCain and sank his flailing campaign in a matter of weeks.
Of course, Ryan is more dangerous than Palin. Where Palin had a selection of only about 25 catchphrases she could memorize, Ryan has a dictionary full of relevant words he can slap around when he’s under pressure. His statements are just as elusive as Palin’s, but because he’s not speaking in a folksy faux-Southern accent, and because he’s a wealthy white man, people take him seriously….
And so what we’re left with here is the Republicanest Republican of them all, a man who Dick Cheney says he “worships,” a 14-year veteran of the Republican House that drove us off a cliff and then whined all through the Obama administration’s subsequent rescue work. Someone with no qualifications in foreign policy who is happy to talk tough about the Middle East and China when the consequences aren’t his problem. A wealthy young white man who refuses to, for one second, consider what it must be like to be a woman, or a minority, or a member of the lower class, or old. A man whose words mean less than nothing.
Is it any wonder that Romney loves Ryan, can seemingly spend hours sitting next to him and softly chuckling while gazing in his direction, his hands awkwardly curled up in his lap? It must be like looking into a mirror that shows you all your life’s possibilities. It must be like looking at all the potential he used to have. Here’s the distillation of everything Romney believes, and by some fluke, people even like this other guy. If Romney didn’t make Ryan his vice presidential candidate, he’d probably have killed him in a fit of jealous pique.
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