Posted on 09/15/2012 5:34:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Paul Ryan taps Ted Olson to play Biden in debate prep
By Felicia Sonmez, Saturday, September 15, 10:31 AM
The Washington Post
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has tapped former U.S. solicitor general Ted Olson to play the role of Vice President Biden in preparations for next month’s debate.
Olson is best known as the top Republican attorney who, along with New York attorney David Boies, led the legal battle against California’s Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage. His first mock debate session with Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin, came this past week.
Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck called Olson “one of the most skilled, intelligent and successful litigators in America — just the kind of opponent needed to prepare the congressman for Mr. Biden.”
“Joe Biden has been in elected office for more than 40 years,” Buck said in a statement. “There are few people in politics with more experience debating the issues than Joe Biden, so we are taking this process seriously.”
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Yes, Ted Olson is troubling, but not near as troubling; nay, make that as catastrophic as another four years of Obama. Anyone but Obama, ANYONE!
You sure they didn’t say “Ted Baxter”? Ted Olsen can speak without getting tongue tied or making a major gaffe.
An ominous association.
Et tu Paul Ryan?
Paul Ryan, I hope you’re not being fleeced.
The the seemingly once conservative, now liberal Ted Olson is portraying liberal Joe Biden in debate prep.
Paul Ryan is not going to choose a conservative to play a liberal. He has to be able to debate libspeak. It seems like a bonus to me that Olson not only has seen both sides of the political landscape but argued before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore.
An ominous association.
Et tu Paul Ryan?
Please think about it before you start accusing. Is Joe Biden conservative? No. Will Paul Ryan be debating a conservative in the VP debate? No. Why would he choose a conservative to play a liberal in preparation for that debate? That would be stupid, and Paul Ryan is not stupid.
The goal is to INFLATE EXPECTATIONS of Biden’s debating prowess - he called himself a “foreign policy expert” earlier in the week.
It is in the R-R interest to raise expectations for both Obama and Biden in the debates as high as possible. Then, when they crash, the public is astonished at how bad they really were.
Couldn’t they find a manikin??? They have hollow heads, it would work fine.
Sounds like he will be able to be a "credible" Biden then...
I miss Ted's wife, Barbara...
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