Posted on 08/11/2012 6:01:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Drudge Report singled out political writer Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker as having the unintentionally hilarious first spin on the reported pick of Paul Ryan to be Romney's running mate. Lizza immediately started to "tally the risks."
"For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience," he wrote. He wrote this with zero ackowledgment of Obama's private-sector experience scooping mint-chip at Baskin-Robbins. If the rest of the media follows this line, this is going to be shamelessly biased:
Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.
But that wasn't blind, deaf, and dumb to Obama's resume enough: he also didn't have enough Washington experience:
But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.
And the experience that Ryan does have is not exactly what voters are clamoring for at the moment. The bulk of Ryan’s House career coincided with the Presidency of George W. Bush, during which he was a reliable vote for many Bush policies that have not aged well: Medicare Part D; the Iraq War; and the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Ryan told me that voting for all of that spending, which added trillions to the deficit, made him “miserable,” but he’ll need a better explanation in his October debate with Joe Biden.
Presumably, Romney’s main reason for picking Ryan is not his early deficit-busting record but his more recent rise to celebrity as a crusading policy wonk determined to tame the federal government. Romney, who has been extremely vague about what he would do if elected, will now own Paul Ryan’s ideas, which include privatizing Social Security, turning Medicare into a voucher program, bloc-granting and drastically cutting Medicaid, and reducing discretionary spending to levels that would affect every popular government program. This Ryan agenda will now fill the vacuum created by Romney’s unwillingness to lay out the specifics of his own plan. Even before this (apparent) announcement, Democrats were planning on tying Romney to Ryan’s policy platform. Now Romney has done it for them.
Lizza could only say that Romney deserves credit for turning this into a strong ideological choice for voters -- as if Obama's extremely liberal record hasn't already done that:
Romney’s choice of Ryan will undoubtedly be criticized as capitulation to the right, and this pick does seem to demonstrate that Romney is not able or willing to distance himself from the base of his party. But the good thing about the Ryan pick is that the Presidential campaign will instantly turn into a very clear choice between two distinct ideologies that genuinely reflect the core beliefs of the two parties. And in that sense, Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan is good news for voters.
Paul Ryan had more qualifying experience yesterday, than Obama will have when he leaves office 20 January, 2013.
The media will not likely Ryan/Romney over fiscal matters. They will attack Ryan over fabricated misdeeds from his imagined past. There will be no refutations in the MSM, just shock and handwringing that the Republicans could choose two felons. And, as we know from past performance at MSM, it is the nature of the charges, not the reality of events, that matters.
The media will not likely attack Ryan/Romney over fiscal matters or much discuss them. They will attack Ryan over fabricated misdeeds from his imagined past. There will be no refutations in the MSM, just shock and handwringing that the Republicans could choose two felons. And, as we know from past performance at MSM, it is the nature of the charges, not the reality of events, that matters.
Absolutely!
Great things are ahead for this country. Great things. This is an historic moment. Mark this day. Today we begin to turn the ship around.
All I can say is WHO CARES what these Leftie Libs think about anything. They truly represent about 20-30% of Americans, yet they want you to believe that they speak for the “vast majority.” Personally, I no longer believe in anyone who is annointed to lead the Nation. Maybe Romney will fool us all and actually help We the People get our country back. Any bets?
“If anything, Ryan should be at the top of the ticket”
Well Mitt agrees with you, I just heard him say it on live TV LOL!
ROFLMAO, (and that is the first time I have EVER used the entire ROFLMAO, hope I got it right). Can't wait for that debate. hahahahaha.
LOL And obamas experience is? Birth in question, failed student, drugs, failed community leader, failed senator (perpetually present,perpetual campaigner), failed RESIDENT. Obamas experience seems to be mostly on how to FAIL at everything.
I do give Howdy Doody some small credit. He is good at golfing, basketball, vacationing and failing.
Heard that on Fox this AM and there was absolutely no rebuttal! How about mentioning a presidential candidate last time with absolutely NO experience in anything (except maybe chooming).
You didn't get the MSM memo, Bambi made a speech in Germany during the 2008 campaign, that was more than enough foreign policy for the left.
[ My favorite laugh, “ no private sector experience”
Seriously. ]
Gee Obama is a Paradigm of Private sector experience...
Ryan is a bold choice who is a true Conservative. He will make the commie heads explode.
Pray for America
I did not actually believe liberals were, across the board, so stupid.
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING they use to attack Mitt and Ryan, can be turned around on their guys.
It is to laugh.
Lincoln saw it 160 years ago..
We are now far into the fifth [decade] since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of [tolerating Marxist-Alinsky] agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented [to where there are arguably two Americas]. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half [statist] and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of [statism] will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become [accepted] in all the states, [Red and Blue], North as well as South.
Probably the opening line for Howdy Doody on Meet the Press...
So, now democrats will have to debate on the serious issues of our nation.
Obama/Biden will have to answer for the failed record in the wake of “never letting a good crisis go to waste”.
Idiots. Oh, we know Zero is all too experienced as the most experienced Chicago Gay thug who never saw a bribing screwing system he felt uncomfortable with, his sexuality” included.
Brainwashed
F@@@@GS!!!
Thanks Kaslin.
“yeah, but... he’s black”
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