Is Mitt really going to choose Mini Me?

[ProSense]

Ryan: Romney’s Assets In A ‘Blind Trust For Pete’s Sake’

Romney surrogate and VP contender Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Sunday that the Obama campaign using Bain Capital and the issue of Romney’s taxes to distract the country from the issues people really care about.

“People are not worried about the details as to when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital to save the Olympics or the details about his assets, which are managed by a blind trust for Pete’s sake,” Ryan said on “Face the Nation.” “They’re worried about their jobs and their family’s future.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/ryan-romneys-assets-in-blind-trust-for-petes

Mitt's running for President, for Pete's sake!

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The most recent manifestation is an all-hands-on-deck effort to make Romney pick Paul Ryan as his vice president. Choosing Ryan would heighten the substantive stakes of the election, but it would also put a watchdog on the ticket — one who would be disinclined to march along if Romney wandered away from the conservative agenda.

“The clamor you are hearing for Paul Ryan for VP is not about helping the Romney candidacy,” wrote conservative writer, and former George W. Bush aide, David Frum. “It’s about controlling the Romney campaign—and ultimately the Romney presidency. It’s about forcing a platform on Romney, and then dictating the agenda for that presidency’s first year. The platform happens to be suicidal, and the agenda impossible, but that does not matter to the Ryan advocates. They take the old Tammany Hall point of view: ‘Better to lose an agenda than lose control of the party.’ In that sense, the Ryan proposal is a test of Romney’s leadership. If he accedes, it’s a big surrender of control—and a surrender to many of those who most opposed (and who inwardly continue to dislike) his nomination.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-paul-ryan-budget-conservatives-vice-president-health-care.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Mitt's going to need a bigger white flag!

[notadmblnd]

1. Ryan, the guy whose manager when he worked at McDonalds determined

that he didn't have the social skills to work the counter? Ryan the guy who was voted "The Biggest Brown-noser" in highschool? Ryan the Ayn Rand devotee? Ryan the guy who wants to spend two trillion just in transition fees to privatize Social Security? Paul Ryan whose plan Karl Rove warned Bush to stay away from and when Bush ignored his advice, the democrats savaged the plan resulting in a huge drop in the polls for bush and a loss of 30 seats in the House? Paul Ryan, the trust fund baby that closely resembles Eddie Munster? That Paul Ryan?

[truebluegreen]

2. The cluelessness is strong in this one...

That is, the Republicon party. Do they really think the Ryan budget is a winning gambit? That even low-information voters, who will be paying at least marginal attention this fall, are going to like what they see?

Wow.