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Watching the hysterical reaction from the left yesterday over Romney choosing Paul Ryan as his veep makes you wonder how much was pre-written boilerplate, with the Republican candidate’s name simply dropped in at the last minute, once Romney formally made his announcement. It’s sort of the Bizarro World version of the riff brainwashed into the skulls of Frank Sinatra and the rest of Laurence Harvey’s troops by the Soviets and Communist China in The Manchurian Candidate: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” Instead this weekend, we’re getting “INSERT NAME OF REPUBLICAN TO BE DEMONIZED HERE is the worst, vilest, sexist, homophobic, God-worshiping, Second Amendment-supporting, budget cutting, evilest human being I’ve ever known in my life:”
- MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell demeans women, parrots Axelrod: ‘Ryan is not a pick for moms, women.’
- Inconceivable! Planned Parenthood, EMILY’s List say Paul Ryan is ‘wrong for women’
- WaPo’s Ruth Marcus: Paul Ryan Is ‘Sarah Palin With Substance and a Paper Trail.’
- Chris Matthews Slams Paul Ryan Budget as ‘Screwing’ Needy People.
- New Yorker Complains of Paul Ryan’s Lack of “Private-Sector Experience.”
- Congresswoman Donna Christensen: ‘Are there black people in Virginia? Guess not with Romney Ryan!’
- And so on.
Yesterday at Commentary, John Podhoretz explored “Paul Ryan and Liberal Glee.” As Podhoretz wrote, “Doubtless, Ryan has provided some subject matter for Democratic attacks. But so, in different ways, would anyone else on Mitt Romney’s short list”:
More important is the quality of the glee itself. It’s an ongoing liberal political-character flaw. So insulated a are many, if not most, American liberals that they simply presume that which they despise is inherently despicable, and that what they fear is inherently fearful. As they gather in their echo chamber, all they hear are voices resounding with the monstrousness of redesigning Medicare and the parlousness of cutting the federal budget. They genuinely do not know that budget cutting is popular, even if only in theory, and that tens of millions of voters do understand the notion that the government is living far beyond its means. From what we can gather, in fact, these are exactly the sorts of ideas that speak to independent voters and have since the days of Ross Perot.
Ryan is a formidable presence in American politics. Generally speaking, formidable players do formidable things. The glee of the Left suggests its folk are so excited by what the Obama campaign can dish out that they are unprepared for what Ryan and Romney can dish out right back.
One of my favorite leftwing freakouts, which perfectly sums up this weekend’s apocalyptic tone from Democrats, although it predates the Ryan announcement by a couple of days, is 85-year old Harry Belafonte blurting out that electing Romney will bring about the “end of civilization.”
Mitt could have selected Jon Huntsman, Michael Bloomberg or even Bill freakin’ Clinton as his VP nominee and it wouldn’t have mattered. Anyone roughly to the right of Rachel Maddow would have been trashed using just about the same language as the Democrats and their media supporters have used over the past 24 hours.
The key now is going to be whether or not Romney is all-in with Ryan’s core ideas, or if he’s going to spend the next week ‘smoothing off’ the edges to those plans and was more interested in Ryan’s name as a way to juice up the conservative base. As fast as the current campaign cycles go, and with the late-night show hosts already sharpening their knives for Monday, Team Romney really only has about 48-96 hours to get the message of who Paul Ryan is and what his plan is all about out to voters, or Team Obama and their big media followers will take care of the job for them (and unlike 2008, they won’t go the “Palin iz stoopid” route, but they’ll make Ryan into Dick Cheney’s younger, far more evil twin. It’s also why Ryan needs to be sent down to Florida in the next couple of days instead of banging around the Great Lakes states, because the ‘he wants to kill grandma’ meme is going to be the one that plays out the most on the left in the next few days)
Ryan’s answer to that: I’m saving grandma from Obama and his death panel Czar.
I’ve always loved that particular detail in “The Manchurian Candidate”. And, yes, that’s exactly what the Left sounds like to me, too.
Paul Ryan’s selection caused one of the less insane lefty sites, Naked Capitalism, to go insanely ballistic on Ayn Rand. (!?)
Leftwing Response to Ryan nomination…courtesy of Fred Sanford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdi-1tIUhM
Yeah, this does sound a lot like that aspect of the book (read that long before I saw the original movie – let’s not get into a discussion of the remake). I have to wonder how many of the Left fill some of the other villain roles from that movie? It’s almost like they were hoping for an easy target and instead got one that can return fire.
Exactamundo.
90% of the noise from the left these days is completely schizoid, removed from reality, fill in the blank, knee-jerk liberalism at its very best.
Axelrod, Reid, and even Obambus his own self, are some of the vilest characters to ever come to Washington. And they work at it, they’re proud of it, and I have to say, if you’re measuring on that kind of scale, they’re “good” at it. Just like many Islamic cultures are “excellent” at moaning about their fate, casting blame, and calling names. It’s *all* they are good at in most cases, but you have to respect their skills all the same.
On August 11, I witnessed the coming of the next 16 years of President of
the United States. Period.
The next President after that will depend on whomever Paul Ryan picks as his
Vice-President running mate.
“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” — Gerald Ford,
August 9, 1974. Mitt Romney can say those exact same words January 20, 2013.
Jim Whittaker
Hemet, CA
Barack Obama has corruption in the coop, hate on the hoof, taqiyya on the tongue and bats in the belfry — that’s his campaign strategy.
Leftists and their rhetoric: boring, repetitive, predictable, and worst of all, entirely LAZY. I get the feeling they make more use of their thesaurus than anything. Sorry, guys, eventually you run out of synonyms for “rich” and “racist” and have to actually talk about what’s going on.
Barack Obama here. Good evening to all you wingnuts and teabaggers. My lovely Michelle had greetings for you too but I doubt her’s would make it through this web site’s filters so you will just have to image what she said. I will defeat the two inexperienced lightweights you dopes are putting up against me and with the greatest of ease. You might as well just give up right now and save yourselves any further embarrassment. My grand plan is working even better than I thought as due to your silly Christian upbringing most of you will now be compelled to fight against Romney and Ryan after I and the unbiased media prove in the court of public opinion that they are both mass murderers. Soon now both Harry Reid and I will reveal the names of hundreds of thousands of other people Romney has murdered by causing them to get cancer and the names of the thousands of people Ryan has murdered by stealing their wheel chairs and leaving them out in the woods to die a slow and painful death. The unbiased media will examine all my proof and declare it all 100% the truth. After the election and my landslide victory I will have my image placed on Mount Rushmore in place of those old honkies up there now and my dear and close friends in the Muslim Brotherhood will probably want to carve my image out of one of those old pyramids rather than tear them all down. I am Barack Obama and I will have at least four more years. More likely about 40 more years.
The really sad thing is that ‘Many a true word is spoken in jest’. The USURPER and his Racist Black supporters and the Left Wing moonbats will not go quietly. Dignity is a word not in the Left Wings language manipulating lexicon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc&feature=share
You ever get the feeling you’re listening to some tiny yapping Dog, who thinks he’s a Doberman?
Yeah, me too,
Pathetic.
With all these Democrats losing their marbles over the Ryan pick, it just shows that it MUST have been a great pick! Anything to wreck their day is a good thing and it only proves that they are terrified that a real, honest-to-God, conservative is now on the ticket. I think it’s great and Ryan will destroy Biden in a debate. He will totally show how useless Biden is and what a political hack Obama chose for vice president. After that, people will really wonder, “You mean to tell me this jerk Biden is really only one heartbeat away from being president?” Don’t be surprised if in the next few weeks Biden suddenly pulls out of the race for “health reasons” and Hillary is asked to take his place. The Obama thugs must know that Biden doesn’t stand a chance against Ryan and are probably flipping out over it.
Agree. What a pass we’ve come to when the “debates”, which are “moderated” by socialist anchors from the vidiot networks, get to determine the winners in an American Idol rock star circus held for mouth breathers.
Obamessiah can’t lose in today’s undereducated, brainwashed America.
Co-worker One: My wife and I are hosting a barbecue on Labor Day for some friends. We are going to have a fantastic spread. Beef, ham, turkey, fish, potatoes and gravy, potato salad, pork and beans, ice cream and cake, and plenty of beer, of course. We are really looking forward to it as a great way to end the summer.
Co-worker Two: Well, you know, I am a vegetarian. For years I have been trying to enlighten you and other idiots about the perils of meat consumption and the virtues of vegetarianism. There is no way I could ever approve of what your offering. Nor, could I attend.
Co-worker One: I understand your position. But, you needn’t worry. You are not on the guest list.
This is only the beginning. Obama and company are going to lie, lie lie and before it is over Romney and Ryan are going to be responsible for every car accident that happens on every road and street in America and if any member of their family has a late book at the library then the impending demise of the whole library system will be their fault. You will see women and men both coming out of the woodwork all over the nation saying that either Romney or Ryan or both either hired them as prostitutes or sexually harassed them. Drug dealers are going to proclaim that they sold them drugs and the MSM is going to peddle this stuff 24/7. What happened to Sarah Palin is only a foreshadowing.
I hope they are up for it because it is going to be nasty. I wish them well.
Obama and his minions have already been busted telling outrageous lies so many times that dismissing any others they try to throw up should be easy. Viz:
H’m — not debating the data, but I have an instinctive revuoltion to “hockey-stick” like graph about the impending doom due to anything (immigration, population explosion, global warming, and financial meltdown). These graph almost always show the actual data being more-or-less linear, while the projected data always goes up into the stratosphere, therefore, unless we give the chart maker a LOT OF POWER and do it RIGHT NOW, we’re all doomed.
Surely it’s possible to argue against Obama without using such graphs? He’s not exactly Mr. Invulnerable, his presidency so far having been a massive failure on many accounts, as one would expect when an amateur takes over
(note: I *am* for a government by amateurs — they’re known as “the people” — as opposed to rule of the experts, by the experts, for the experts, as the Dems would have it, or by generals, or religious leaders, as is often the case in the world. But the amateurs in charge need to know what they’re doing and know reality!)
Check out the Ryan graph in context with the video of his debate with Geithner. Ryan gets him to concede that the Obama plan really does simply kick the consequences of the debt explosion due to rising entitlement costs down the road.
d’oh — that’s “revulsion”, of course, not “revoultion”, which isn’t a word…
All your base are belong to us!
I don’t think it will be as bad as people say when the government “shuts down”. They’ll just go down to the “essential services” level which is where they should have been all along.
When will someone say “not one more penny” when talking about the budget. No more automatic raises on any budget item. The federal government should just turn over benevolence programs to the states. That way all the fakers and takers could live in the blue states and the makers could live in the red states.
“Only some of them will be patriotic enough to vote against their own pocketbooks.” Sounds like “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”
How can people vote against their own self-interest? Simple. When it is clear that these programs are not funded, and the payments are coming out of my children’s and grandchildren’s hides; I should be grateful? That the programs enslave my progeny, how is that NOT in my best interests to be against such things?
The problem is that the Democratic talking points are getting old. Outside the beltway, Americans are neither fools nor bigots.
And at a time when the budget is tight, no one likes budget cutting but if it is seen as the price of a better economy, I think it could be sold to the American people, and Ryan is the one who could do that.
Using his surrogates, Barack Hussein Obama is following in the footsteps of Lyndon Baines Johnson. In a Texas race he thought he might lose, LBJ instructed his campaign staff to put out a story that his opponent was once caught having sexual relations with a pig (an actual pig, not Nancy Pelosi). One of his staff said, “But that’s not true,” LBJ replied, “But let him deny it.”
I’m sure that Ms Debbie is not sure of the political creed that certain SuperPacs subscribe to. Bill Clinton and the grandees of the Dem Party are equally unsure as to whether Obama is a Dem. Trash the Republicans and they’ll line up behind you. But … trash the Democrats too? Obama is a one-man army, bent on trashing anything and everything that is American. And the Dem rank-and-file are cannon fodder.
“INSERT NAME OF REPUBLICAN TO BE DEMONIZED HERE is the worst, vilest, sexist, homophobic, God-worshiping, Second Amendment-supporting, budget cutting, evilest human being I’ve ever known in my life:”
You forgot ‘extreme’
We are at a fork in the road and the results of this election will define who we are for daces. This truly is a ‘Do you want the Blue Pill or the Red Pill’ moment for American voters.
This election will also answer the question, “Are Americans different?” Elsewhere in the world when a country has stood on the fiscal precipice, the people rioted to keep the ‘free stuff’ coming. This election will demonstrate whether we Americans truly are different or if we are no different than the Greeks.
Didn’t matter who Romney selected, the Alinsky playbook had it covered. Lies, innuendo, and personal destruction are all they have. No ideas, no courage, and no character.
Just curious – will R/R have their own independent videographer present at ALL interviews with media – including 60 minutes, and all the rest of the MSM?? If not, why not.
As to debates – DON’T – schedule your own and invite O/B – it is pretty clear the LWV has a liberal agenda – look at the prior moderators.
Lets not forget that the White House let it be known, in an unguarded moment, that their goal was to “Kill Romney.” The same sentiment now goes out to Paul Ryan.
I can never remember being so depressed by political events. At the risk of violating Godwin’s Law I feel like what those few hardy opponents of the Munich accords must have felt in 1938 when Mr. Chamberlain offered “Peace in Our Time.” The Big Lie (actually a stream of Big Lies) is being fed to us day in and day out and most people seem to be swallowing it.
The Podhoretz quote was a gem, worth storing in my file of great quotations.
Here’s another:
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there ARE other views.”—William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)
LEFTIST RAGE IS REAL AND JUSTIFIED in their view.
All human cultures have religion. The right has separation of church and state in their beliefs, and in their non-religious life. They deal with evidence, economics as concrete numbers, and policy with the method of destruction-testing.
The Left is mostly not religious. Their economics is based on religion and on political theories regarding the betterment of the masses. Foreign Policy rests on patrician views, expectations that others are like us (and therefore no American exceptionalism), and myths including some which are knee-slappers. For example, that America is defended by the vastness of the oceans, which was true every year through 1491, but not so much thereafter. Policy is easy by making the proper moral assessment. Viewing this in detail and one finds little elements of Deductive Reasoning all over in the array of pieces of evidence and reasoning. All this is contamination as the Deductive Reasoning element may be true, false, between those two, something different, or not existing. One has to use Inductive Reasoning to ensure each element exists in the real world. Deductive reasoning is a Godsend to the busy person.
Religion has a lot of Deductive Reasoning in it, mixed with embedded experience that might not be put into words yet. It is not necessary to do any work on it as it is only for the individual’s spiritual life.
Leftists who have departed from formal religion arrive in leftist views and carry on with the same deductive and religious behavior. They avidly follow the Third Commandment about having other gods. Those who are Atheists seem to have a lot of Deductive Reasoning elements present, as if Atheism were a religion.
Leftists regard disagreement and failure to obey as blasphemy and apostasy.
Leftists, for example, are fixated on tax rates, which really are nothing more than a moral expression and a guess. The reality is that the Rate of Taxable Events is too low and it would be nice to raise it.
The Democratic strategy of maximizing state dependency is working. Over 100 millions Americans now depend on their “check”. Maybe Romney can win, but if he doesn’t, the arithmetic is inexorable: the percent of the dependent electorate will continue to grow, until the “taxpayer party” is a permanent minority, as it is in most of Europe. That means more spending, more taxes, more “programs” and more dependency. There will be no turning back.
Hey Debbie, denial is not a river in Egypt, but if you want to visit, I’m sure the MB won’t mind having you as their guest.
The Year 2030
Years after the defeat of the hated Bush Presidency, the Democrats assumed control of what Bush called the “War on Terror.” Under the leadership of America’s first almost-Black President, Barak Hussein Obama, these hostile encounters were renamed, “Unlawful Disruptions of World Peace.” They vowed to take the moral high ground in all international conflicts and apply their more humane vision to America’s foreign policy. Their motto was, “Set an ethical standard of behavior and gain the respect of the world.”
Consistent with his promise to remake our country into a more generous society where we can share the wealth, he devised an ingenious plan which would provide universal health care for all our 300 million people, and all our neighbors south of the border who might prefer our system to their own without raising our deficit. He did this by a simple four step process.
#1. Prohibiting all expensive surgical operations on older citizens who have lived a full life and probably would not want to be a financial burden to society in any case.
#2. Raising taxes on the rich who did not really need all that excess money and would reinforce their feelings of patriotism.
#3. Nationalizing the Insurance Companies who might present unfair competition by presenting lower priced premiums with more benefits.
#4. Having the Treasury Department print more money in large denominations to make up the balance.
Obama then nationalized the banks, the automobile industry, and increased the size of Government by fifty percent, while driving many profit-seeking small businesses into bankruptcy. He shared his wisdom about “letting no crisis go to waste” when he advised the 15 million workers who lost their jobs during our economic period of transition to upgrade their skills and seek more rewarding work.
It became clear that by the time the Presidential election of 2012 came about, most of the electorate was in a state of shock and confusion. Obama had learned to speak without the assistance of Telepromters . He simply prerecorded his speeches and press conferences and played them backwards on occasion for variety, while he stood at the podium miming elegance in his usual unruffled manner. No one noticed any differences between the presentations since it was the cadence of his performance that captivated their attention.
Even though many of his supporters had doubts about his sanity his charming style continued to enchant them when he would pontificate, “Everything may seem chaotic, but I can assure you, we are “remaking America”, everything is going according to plan.”
My fellow citizens, I must ask you to trust me in this great adventure of “change”. I am asking you to bear with me and suspend these wasteful and meaningless circuses we call elections. There are no other National leaders in our country today who can possible guide us though the next years with a vision of what needs to me done. I am asking you by a show of hands to suspend the election process. Give me your support and your trust until we can realize our dream of universal harmony by the year of 2030.
Most of the country was relieved to have the reassurance of a strong, confident, visionary leader. Over two million people filled the arena at Wrigley Field and overflowed through the surrounding streets of Chicago. The sky lite-up with a barrage of multi-colored fireworks as Barak Hussein Obama took his vows to protect our country and establish a more caring society for all. When he asked for acclamation, the crowds exploded with a show of hands which evolved into a new emblematic salute. Raising the right hand into the air and crossing the left hand over to grasp the right shoulder and shouting, “Hope and Change”. This was followed simultaneously by millions of spectators on network TV throughout the country e-mailing in their affirmations of approval at that very same hour. It was truly an historic event on November 6th 2012. They did in fact, by a show of hands, proclaim Barack Hussein Obama Supreme Leader of the US until the year 2030.
This new salute was memorialized on buttons, shirts, hats and graffiti on walls. It became as famous as the peace sign at Woodstock and provided many new jobs for the unemployed.
And so it goes.