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Mitt Romney announces Paul Ryan as running mate
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outunderthestars
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Farther to the right than even Dick Cheney.
firehawk12
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On economic issues (though maybe jingoism too, since he wants to balloon defense). Cheney was decent on gay rights for a Republican at least.
only after he left office
ClassyPenguin
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"His father’s death also provoked the kind of existential soul-searching that most kids don’t undertake until college. “I was, like, ‘What is the meaning?’ ” he said. “I just did lots of reading, lots of introspection. I read everything I could get my hands on.” Like many conservatives, he claims to have been profoundly affected by Ayn Rand. After reading “Atlas Shrugged,” he told me, “I said, ‘Wow, I’ve got to check out this economics thing.’ What I liked about her novels was their devastating indictment of the fatal conceit of socialism, of too much government.” He dived into Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman."
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_lizza#ixzz23HQjBtyy
According to 538 he's the most conservative VP since like the 1900s, an the furthest away from center from either side
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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"Real" America is something that shouldn't need explaining. It's people like me Stinkles. The good guys.
That's EXACTLY how I pictured him.Here's a photograph of the writer, John Cassidy:
Did I? It's nice to know people actually pay more attention to me than I do.
Almost as funny as Santorum.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
He probably doesn't understand the lyrics. lol
Mercury Fred
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Dress down? Ryan embarrassed himself. He comes off like an out of touch hack.
For normal people, I give it 4 days. For the media, 3 months.
astroturfing
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heh, i love how this was handled on Finnish evening news (i think it was the most watched news slot). the reporter basically just said "Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, who wants to keep the poor down". LOL. and in Finnish it was even worse, if i translated it literally it would be something like "wants to keep the poor kneeling".
usually our news do a really good job of being apolitical, i can't even tell if any of our news shows or even newspapers have a right wing or left wing slant.. but this was hilarious.
it's true though, isn't it? this is the guy whose policies would make the poor even poorer? from what i've read, even catholic nuns seem to hate his guts for being such a soulless prick.
usually our news do a really good job of being apolitical, i can't even tell if any of our news shows or even newspapers have a right wing or left wing slant.. but this was hilarious.
it's true though, isn't it? this is the guy whose policies would make the poor even poorer? from what i've read, even catholic nuns seem to hate his guts for being such a soulless prick.
NullPointer
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So he's like Batman, if Batman decided that justice required eviscerating social programs.
Why do we fall? So that we can pull ourself up with government aid, until we stand tall enough to remove that aid for others.
I know you are joking but it's that kind of horse shit that makes politics so stupid. Agree with me or you want to destroy America.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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It's worse. He wants to bury the poor with steam shovels.
How un-American of you.
It IS stupid.
The biggest problem I have with Ryan is his social conservative votes. He doesn't talk about those issues, but he's WAY to conservative for me. I really wish Republicans would drop that shit. Gay marriage? WTF do you care who gets married? They talk about freedom and choice and government out of our lives, but....
it's getting hard to vote Republican.
Ether_Snake
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I think this guy is HIGHLY uncharismatic.
Obama will be re-elected for sure.
Obama will be re-elected for sure.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Not sure where I read this today, but he's not allowed to abandon the seat this late into the cycle, so he has to run again, at least. And I can't imagine him stepping down if he wins the seat but not the Vice Presidency.
cartoon_soldier
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Come on, how is Ryan uncharismatic?
You make that sound like it's a surprising thing for nuns to stand up for the poor.
Nuns are historically the biggest advocates for the downtrodden and less fortunate in the world. They execute on the Catholic mission to help the poor more so than the greater church. For example, Bon Secours hospitals exist exclusively in poor neighborhoods across the world to provide hospital care.
I'm Protestant, but the Catholics do a much better job on acting on the Christian mission to help their fellow man (and woman) than we do.
Vire
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There's a terrible pedophile joke hidden in here somewhere.
Lionheart1337
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I love this country.
Arrowgigantic
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The same Tom Morello who made a video about G.W. Bush and Al Gore being the same guy? He might fuck up and hit Obama.
Man, a mormon and a catholic doing battle against an atheist, muslim, socialist black dude for the presidency. Crazy times.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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That's funny. whowouldathought?
I wonder how religious Romney is. I can imagine a conversation between him and Ryan.
Ryan: "Hey so this Joseph Smith guy made up a religion huh?"
Romney: "Blow it up your ass, your denomination is responsible for millions of deaths. Bitch."
Romney was talking in his best Jesse Pinkman voice btw.
Anticitizen One
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Romney & Ryan is like the evil pro-corporate version of Batman & Robin. Ryan even looks like romney's lil sidekick.
This just in: conserative media biased towards conservative candidate.
I wish everyone would stop seriously reporting gaffes as a political event. Yes, its nice to laugh at people jumbling their words. The 57 states of Amercia were both amusing, but to spin them into a big news story is just propoganda. So candidate x screwed up a line: still doesn't effect his policies in any way.
Republicans are going to be grandmasters this election at one of the only things they have been good at the past two decades, essentially flat-out lying to everyone watching them on television. Repubs have a knack for saying how their agendas will benefit everyone and the American taxpayer yadda yadda but never once actually admit the truth of their claims and say 'no, it is actually for the powerful 1%'. McCain did this a lot in his debates and it always pissed me off how every instance wasn't called out, only some of them. Its stuff that sounds really good to your dumbass average American and they think these guys are fighting for them when they go to vote because their brain cannot comprehend that everything they saw them say was actually in reference to a select few elite and did not mean them at all. That';s the only platform Repubs can win on, is dishonesty.
Gary Whitta
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The @PaulRyanGosling twitter account is gold!
NYR
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Who cares? Seriously, he made a public speaking mistake, big deal...of course they are going to protect their interests.
Devolution
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Can't brush away that shit taste.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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Obama did correct himself. Mitt didn't seem to notice. Not that it matters.
Can't brush away that shit taste.
It needs this image incorporated into it somehow.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I don't think gaffes should be reported on unless they indicate an actual failure on the part of the politician or candidate to know basic information. Obama clearly doesn't think there are 57 states. The same is true of a great many gaffes announced against right-leaning or conservative candidates. On the other hand, I think Palin's Couric fiasco was actually indicative of someone who didn't have a clue and was in way over her head.
Unfortunately, in a two-party system, there's necessarily going to be a lot of tit-for-tat, and as things are polarized, true believers on either side genuinely believe that intelligent and informed (but incorrect) people on the other side are actual simpletons. In other words, no one is going to concede that the other guy is an intelligent, articulate guy. No one is going to concede that their own guy is occasionally a dullard.
And that leads to the source of a lot of this gotcha stuff. There are people who genuinely and sincerely believe that Barrack Obama is not merely "wrong on the issues", but is actually intellectually dull, not informed about America or the constitution, etc.
It's a pity, because I think we should value articulate and intelligent people across the spectrum, even if we believe that their priorities are dangerous or one or more of their assumptions so fatally flawed that their conclusions are dramatically wrong. I think we ought to reserve accusations of stupidity, or at least of lacking intellectual distinction, to those candidates who are utter disasters.
When the camera goes back to Obama, it's amazing. A look of fear? No. That look says, "I am required to sit here and listen to you, but you have nothing worthwhile to say."
I love the way he sits almost unmoving, but is in a slightly different position each time the camera returns to him.
I guess we expect more precision out of people who have been groomed for years to be president. We expect precision out of our athletes at the Olympics, but can't expect our next president to be able to speak without blunder?
Anticitizen One
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In all honesty its a far more sensible gop ticket than Mccain-Palin. At least the debates will be a bit more intellectual this time hopefully and less "say it ain't so joe *Awink wink*"
I'm in tears.
DeathbyVolcano
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No, they're going to be even worse.
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