Well here goes. Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who may or may not be a subversive comic act along the lines of Andy Kaufman’s alter ego, has set his sights on taking down Paul Ryan as we move into the RNC convention.
For the past several years, Paul Ryan has embodied the advanced math side of politics. He has put forward a plan to deal with the nation’s severe entitlement problem, a spending issue so daunting that most politicians prefer to put their pillows back over their heads and pretend it doesn’t exist. President Obama came into office promising to take entitlements seriously, only to demagogue every chance at reforming them.
But here is how Politico’s Martin kicks off his anti-Ryan piece:
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.
Um, Jon. That’s more private sector experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden have, combined. Obama was a “community organizer” — read: anti-business activist – and Joe Biden was a failed lawyer. Neither are titans of any industry other than spending other people’s money, and in Biden’s case, being wrong about every foreign policy challenge of the past 30-odd years.
Atop the GOP ticket is Mitt Romney. He may have the most private sector experience of any presidential candidate in American history. As in, ever. Romney also has a history of fixing other people’s problems. Together, Romney and Ryan could be seen by a fair-minded person as a problem-solving duo without peer.
Skipping over a few airy paragraphs from Martin, we get to the heart of whatever argument he hopes to make.
What’s more, Romney makes much on of not being a career politician or ever serving in Washington (ignoring, of course, that he could have been in the Senate for nearly two decades had he defeated Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994).
Yet Ryan, 42, has spent the bulk of his career in the capital. The House Budget Committee chairman has been in Congress since he was 28 and before that did stints as a congressional staffer and at the late Jack Kemp’s think tank, Empower America.
And the very small but influential constituency that’s now promoting Ryan hails from the same orbit of GOP thinkers and politicians asRyan. (sic)
Ryan has been in DC for a while, that’s true. But he hasn’t become a creature of the capital’s spendthrift ways and has not succumbed to the go-along-to-get-along ethos that has ruined the place and may sink the nation in debt. Paul Ryan has used his time in Washington to study the budget and propose fixes, something very few others on either side have had the courage to do.
For that, he must be destroyed.
And Jonathan Martin, the scribe who thinks the nation’s most consistently successful governor, Rick Perry, may be dumb because of some bad debate performances and because the same Texas Democrats he shellacks with ease call him childish names, and who called Florida “cracker” country, believes he’s just the man to destroy Paul Ryan.
Unfortunately for Martin, Paul Ryan is far smarter than he is, and no one takes Jonathan Martin very seriously anymore.
Bryan – Truth matters not a wit to Leftists, so are you surprised by Martin’s attack? I’m not. The Left (which in includes the LSM) is in the tank for O, and it members will say or write anything that can potentially besmirch and belittle Republicans.
Jonathan Martin: propagandist.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: Mitt Romney’s extensive private business experience serves to invalidate Paul Ryan’s record. Paul Ryan’s extensive legislative experience serves to invalidate Mitt Romney’s record. Everything in the world just goes to show how perfect Barack Obama and Joe Biden are. Do I have it?
That last line puzzled me: “…no one takes Jonathan Martin very seriously anymore.”
Ah…who is Jonathan Martin? I haven’t the slightest idea. Take him seriously? Why? Is his opinion better than say, my five year old or even my dog? On what evidence? I trust my dog. But I don’t trust liberals.
– time for Ryan to work in business first. If he had and even if he was very successful, the attacks would be that he lacks experience in government.
Gee, was Jonathan impressed with BO’s private business experience? Community organizer?
Every time a liberal talks about experience that qualifies one for POTUS, I get a brain cramp. How they can complain about Sarah Palin’s lack of experience, and now Paul Ryan’s lack of business experience and not see the obvious lack of ANY experience by Obama just boggles the mind.
Same goes for the need for transparency regarding Romney’s tax return, but if you ask about Obama’s school records (leaving the BC issue aside) they don’t see any relation.
I’ll be glad when this election is over, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth commences with the left.
Martin’s criticism reminds me of an old joke during the Bush years:
President Bush was out deep sea fishing one day when a woman in a passing boat fell overboard. Bush calmly stepped out on the ocean walked over and pulled the woman to safety. The next day the headlines of all the major newspapers: “President Bush Cannot Swim!!”
The implication here is that anyone ever did.
I swear I did not get that memo.
Jonathon who? Never heard of him. Why should I care about what he says?
Which voters, exactly, will be turned off by Ryan’s (alleged lack of) private sector experience? Any voter whose litmus test is private sector experience is hardly likely to vote for Obama/Biden, who have an even worse record. If the Dems use this line of attack on Ryan to reach independent voters who are not necessarily swayed by private sevtor experience but who might be tempted by Romney’s proven ability to fix other people’s mistakes, they will be eviscerated by the counter-ad that would run a day or two later (although I’m constantly shocked at the nerve of the Alinskyites, so you never know. Those people can lie with a straight face, and don’t even blink when their abject hypocrisy is pointed out).
Well, lets’ see: There’s HuffPo, NPR, Advocate, NY Times, LA Times, San Francisco papers, Village Voice, CBS, NBC, ABC, BloombergTV, MSNBCTV, HBO. Air America, Washington Post, Politico, MoveOn.org, Code Pink, Priorities (the organization), Entertainment, People, Enquire, the list is very long of liberal-type media.
Filtering this barrage of like minded liberal media and liberal social media is very difficult. Almost have to seek specialized news sources in the USA and overseas having a true journalistic, conservative tradition and desire to report facts and occurrances…not “make-up reports,” as is the case in almost every country in the world.
Factual data is out there. Just have to peer through the MSM fog. God Bless America. Vote massively for massive fraud is all around us. God Save America. Take five friends with us to vote. America’s on life support. Amen.