Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod today compared the 2012 Republican ticket to the 2008 GOP ticket, maintaining that seven-term congressman Paul Ryan wasn’t different from Sarah Palin and predicting that the Romney campaign would end as it did for John McCain.
“There’s no doubt that I think the appointment has thrilled the base of the Republican Party, the Tea Party Republicans, the social conservatives, because Congressman Ryan is a certifiable right-wing ideologue, and so that’s excited them,” Axelrod said on CBS.
“But I saw that excitement four years ago when John McCain appointed Sarah Palin as well. There were huge crowds, much of the same kind of reaction. And I don’t think it worked out very well,” he continued. “I think when the reality catches up with the moment, it’s not going to be a plus for Governor Romney.”
Axelrod called Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, “a very genial guy,” adding “I know him, I like him, I just don’t like his views. I think they’re very dangerous views.”
He called the distinction between Romney’s fiscal plan and Ryan’s “like a choice between a punch in the nose and a knee to the groin.”
Axelrod called Ryan “a leader of the Tea Party, the sort of intellectual leader of the Tea Party group” — even though Ryan is not a member of the 61-lawmaker Tea Party Caucus led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
“He’s very, very much out of the right wing of the Republican Party,” Axelrod added. “He’s a genial fellow, but his views are quite harsh.”
This from the Frank Nitti of the Chicago Mob leftists. Anyone to the right of Stalin is an ideologue. If it’s not from Trotsky, it’s extreme.
The Government Workers Party punks will have a hard time selling Ryan as a bad guy.In the Government by Ambush that Axelrod and Obama built, Ryan will consistently come across as the calm voice against the hysterical Fabian Socialists.
Hyperbole is their starting point, hysteria is their default option, slander is their drug of choice.
He says Ryan is a right-wing ideologue as if that was a bad thing. He’s projecting once again. Obama is a left-wing ideologue. How else to explain his utter inability to learn from reality while pushing socialist ideas that fail every time they’re tried. Some say that Obama must be intelligent because he graduated from Ivy League schools. Anyone who can’t learn from failure isn’t intelligent and most definitely isn’t wise.
– be doing all these shows if he wasn’t worried.
Oh? Romney’s campaign will go the way of McCain’s?
Does that mean Romney overlooked some rather obvious Democrat sympathizers in his campaign staff? Romney listens to Country Club Castrados claiming to be conservatives?
you know, Palin’s record of cleaning up the Republican corruption in the oil industry got no attention in the press, and the reelection of Murkowsky was assumed to be a victory of good against the evil TeaParty of Palin, with only Mother Jones noticing that she bought the election with oil company money.
So yes, they will try to attack Ryan the same way…
The thing that gives me hope in this election is the fact that Paul Ryan has already been scrutinized and slandered and gone one on one with Obama. He’s not intimidated. He’s seasoned. He’s able to articulate his stance without seeming emotional or frazzled, even under harsh attack.
Sarah was just as honest and forthright, but she wasn’t prepared for the utter hatred thrust upon her (not many would be)and that is a big difference I see. Sarah is unafraid, but the whole media attack was too new. Ryan has the advantage of already having been faced with that venom and vitriol and is ready to stand in the face of it. In addition, poor Sarah had people within her own party going against her.
Ryan is a great counterpuncher. Palin, alas, is not.
Ask Debbie Stupidhead Schulz what it’s like to debate him, having left your brain at the cleaner’s. If he is as much on our side as Sarah is, we have a great few months to look forward to.
And maybe even 8 years (or 16) to rejoice daily.
Thanks, Mitt. You’re looking better all the time.
So many of the people that Obama has surrounded himself with, like Axelrod, are like him – nasty and despicable to the core. There is absolutely nothing to which they will not stoop to win power, democracy and our Constitution be damned. I sure hope the Republicans and the authorities (the ones that aren’t corrupt Democrats) will be vigilant looking out for voter fraud in November.
How exactly does one get certified as a “right-wing idealogue?” Is there a school somewhere for that?
Also, I love how Axelrod tries to use Paul Ryan’s likeability as cover (“Oh, I’m not insulting him–I just said he was genial, so I CAN’T be insulting him!”) and tries to defuse it at the same time (“He’s totally genial BUT HE IS ALSO DANGEROUS! Ignore the geniality, be afraid of the danger!”). Sigh. These liberals are so predictable.
Uuuhhh, no, Dave, Paul will be just fine. How do we know? Mitt Romney is the top of the ticket this time, not John McCain. Sarah was hamstrung by McCain and his staffers, then they left her to the wolves. I suspect Mitt will handle his running mate much better, letting him loose to articulate conservative principles. Plus, we’re all going gear up for Paul’s defense. It’ll be like we’re avenging Sarah. Bring it on, you curs!!!
Axelrod zombies would have been forming up a committee to do something about the lead paint on the Titanic after it hit iceberg.
Sleazy Axelrod will go the way of Boss Tweed.
Time to juxtapose.
Axelrod:“Congressman Ryan is a certifiable right-wing ideologue.”
Mayo Clinic: “Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) is suffering from bipolar II depression.”
Jesse Jackson Jr. deserves our sympathy. Axelrod deserves other things.