Posted on 08/15/2012 6:32:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ineptitude: It seems absurd today, but Joe Biden was named running mate to add substance and intellectual heft to the Obama ticket. The vice president of comic relief ended up being a four-year-long insult to Americans.
The comparison between President Obama's choice of Joe Biden for vice president and Mitt Romney's decision of Paul Ryan couldn't be more stark.
Ryan, at just 42, has risen to become the intellectual policy leader of the Republican Party — no mean feat considering this is a party whose economic ideas powered America into the 1980s' boom and planted the seeds for the 1990s' technological revolution.
At great political risk for a GOP congressman in a traditionally Democratic district, Ryan chose to work hard on solutions to grave fiscal problems that, left unaddressed, will cripple America. Name another politician in either party in the last half-century who has done this.
Biden, on the other hand, is class clown, and has been for decades. This supposed foreign policy wise man in 2007 sought to divide Iraq into three semi-autonomous countries, one for Shiites, one for Sunnis and one for Kurds.
His 1988 run for the presidency — as one of the "Seven Dwarfs," along with eventual nominee Mike Dukakis — disintegrated after he plagiarized a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock — a speech that, incredibly, mixed up Kinnock's life story with Biden's.
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Don't you wish it was between those two?
Instead, what we have for the main event is
Obama distracting from any substantive issue while his MSM Campaign Committee broadcasts campaign ads disguised as news
vs.
Romney clueless about the real issues while busy defending himself.
The fact that Romney picked Ryan shows that he's not clueless.
Liberals and conservatives always pick each other in a GOP POTUS race. His choice of Ryan is a ray of hope but IMO it doesn't mean Romney gets it.
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