Politico's Martin Goes Snide on Ryan: Mr. Wienermobile 'Slinging Cheap Margaritas'

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 11, 2012 | Tim Graham

[Kaslin]

Politico's Jonathan Martin is putting on his "cracker counties" snob act again in attacking Paul Ryan's resume, much like Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker, only meaner.

This was how it started: "Flipping burgers at McDonald’s, steering the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, slinging cheap margaritas, and toning abs and pecs. That’s about the extent of Rep. Paul Ryan’s private sector experience." Again, this from the liberals who weren't in the habit of mocking Barry Obama slinging Bubble Gum ice cream?

Perhaps Martin's suffering from an aggressive rewrite man? He seems more respectful deeper in the article:

While he wasn’t exactly a job creator, Ryan has hustled to earn a living over the years, a skill many pols never have to develop.

In high school, the Badger State native worked on a series of entry-level jobs, including a stint on a grill at a local McDonald’s. During college, he worked as an Oscar Mayer salesman and got a turn on the Wienermobile. And in his first years in Washington, he paid the rent thanks to a gig at Tortilla Coast, a Capitol Hill watering hole, and a job whipping people into shape at Washington Sport and Health Club.

Someone thought the first sentence of this article was the funniest, but the hilarious passage comes later....as if a person willing to stab Romney in the back anonymously to a reporter would earn the term "loyalist" somehow:

Ryan’s detractors, speaking anonymously so as not to criticize a potential Romney running mate, point out that the congressman is almost entirely a product of the Washington political universe.

Why wouldn’t we run against Washington with two outsiders?” said one Romney loyalist.

Apparently "loyalist" is someone who won't put his name  on a stupid-Romney-pick quote. Just once, a reporter should write, a source was "speaking anonymously because he/she is a cowardly careerist."

[Lazamataz]

"Flipping burgers at McDonald’s, steering the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, slinging cheap margaritas, and toning abs and pecs."

Hey Martin.....near as I can tell, this means that Paul Ryan had FOUR MORE PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS than Barack Obama.

[WOSG]

Palin was awful because she was a complete outsider with zero Washington experience and spent time outside politics.

Ryan is awful because he was a complete insider with lots of Washington experience who spent little time outside politics.

Hmmmm... It doesnt matter who they are and what they bring. They will be attacked as inadequate.
WHY DO WE EVEN LISTEN TO THIS CRAP?

XYZ is AWFUL (fill in the blanks with DNC cr*p)

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Look, folks, I’m dead serious. Jonathon Martin of Politico is not wrapped too tight!!! I don’t mean he is stupid, just that he is not all there, Watch him on interviews, especially with Chris Matthews on “Hardball”!!!

Matthews is spitting all over the place and Martin is rolling his eyes and ranting like a man possessed by the devil. Matthews is an idiot, but....poor jonathon Martin needs serious meds, IMHO!!! Sad!!! Yep, liberalism is truly a mental sickness!!!

[the invisib1e hand]

May da Schwartz be witchoo.

[ridesthemiles]

I have had a fair variety of jobs in my lifetime.

I worked in offices (various companies).....worked in the order department of the company which made Jockey shorts.....assembled air distribution grills.....sold auto parts & mixed/sold auto paint..... a grocery store check out cashier.....sold & changed tires for a major So Calif tire store......worked nights grinding cylinder heads for the auto racing industry.....worked as a bookkeeper for small businesses.

I did whatever I could to pay the bills.

I now OWN my house....no mortgage.

I OWN my car.

I OWN my truck.

I OWN my 2 horse trailer.

I OWN my 4 horse trailer.

I OWN my 5 registered Arabian horses.

I NEVER did anything illegal.

I NEVER got arrested.

Today, kids will drop out of school & sell drugs just to MAKE MONEY—they don’t care about the legal or moral implications.

I don’t think I am alone in the willingness to do whatever job I could to survive.

BTW——I am female.

[shove_it]

I meant Schwanz not Schwartz.