Charles Pierce eviscerates Ryan's debate performance.

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America
(Just the last 3 paragraphs)
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For years, Paul Ryan has been the shining champion of some really terrible ideas, and of a dystopian vision of the political commonwealth in which the poor starve and the elderly die ghastly, impoverished deaths, while all the essential elements of a permanent American oligarchy were put in place. This has garnered him loving notices from a lot of people who should have known better. The ideas he could explain were bad enough, but the profound ignorance he displayed on Thursday night on a number of important questions, including when and where the United States might wind up going to war next, and his blithe dismissal of any demand that he be specific about where he and his running mate are planning to take the country generally, was so positively terrifying that it calls into question Romney's judgment for putting this unqualified greenhorn on the ticket at all. Joe Biden laughed at him? Of course, he did. The only other option was to hand him a participation ribbon and take him to Burger King for lunch.

You know what's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan?

Lipstick.

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-debate-joe-biden-13626962

Heh!
Pierce didn't cut Ryan to ribbons. He shredded him like old Wisconsin cheese!

[jsr]

1. Ryan is as authentic as a 7-dollar bill

[CrispyQ]

2. Outstanding commentary!

[The Blue Flower]

3. What's the difference between Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin?

Lipstick.

This one is awesome. Read to the end.

[Berlum]

7. The kiss of Republican FAIL

[JDPriestly]

9. I repeat (because your statement is so true)

Awesome. Read to the end.

[Liberalagogo]

10. You know what's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan? Lipstick.

That is NOT true.

Sarah Palin wears lipstick.

[bullwinkle428]

4. This is absolutely worth a second K&R.

[Th1onein]

5. The ENTIRE article is absolutely GREAT! An absolute must read in its entirety!

Thanks for posting.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Charlie Pierce

and Martin Bashir have gotten to be my 2 favorites! Huge K&R.

By the way, Charlie is on Stephanie Miller every Tuesday morning, and he is awfully funny in regularly skewering these Republicants.

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. Damn, it's blocked here at my work!

I wanted to read this at lunch. Oh well.

[sarge43]

11. Lipstick.

[mnhtnbb]

12. What a fabulous piece!

[AzDar]

13. K & R

[AtomicKitten]

14. LOL. That piece is a work of art.

[bluesbassman]

15. The only other option was to hand him a participation ribbon and take him to Burger King for lunch.

Perfect, and while he's there maybe Ryan could fill out a job application.

[lark]

16. Yeah LyinRyan need to get a real job

and get off that government teat (in his side's language)

Poor widdle boy, totally outgunned and outclassed.

[femrap]

29. That was a great line.

I was practically crying I was laughing so hard.

[magical thyme]

17. Also, he explained winter.

I'd forgotten that moment. I laughed so hard my dogs jumped up and stood staring at me like I'd fallen out of bed or something. The impudence of that ignorant little pipsqueak fool explaining the fighting season to Joe Biden and Martha Raddatz. Unfuckingreal!!!!

And when Raddatz asked him, deftly, what would be worse, another war in the Middle East or Iran with a nuclear bomb, he leaped in precipitously with the latter, while about 75 percent of the country, including the two other people on stage with him, looked at Ryan as though he'd lost his mind. He did, however, demonstrate a certain talent for pronouncing long foreign words that his briefers had taught him on Tuesday. Also, he explained winter.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-debate-joe-biden-13626962#ixzz296ehcoGl

[Blanks]

23. For some reason the complexity...

...of trained Afghan troops replacing American soldiers was too much for him though.

It seems Joe tried to explain the concept to him several times. I'm not sure he ever latched onto the concept. Poor little guy. he was so sure that we didn't understand what was meant by the word 'winter'...

He just knew we would be appalled at the administration if we could just grasp the idea that there was snow in the mountain passes.

I think he was expecting the audience to gasp.

[Blue Idaho]

18. OMG!

"You know what's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan?

Lipstick."

OUCH!!!!!!!!

[Beartracks]

19. Dead-on analysis. I, too, noticed his use of foreign words...

When Ryan began name-dropping foreign locations it clearly seemed designed only to make him sound smarter than he is on the subject.It was embarrasingly transparent.

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[KurtNYC]

33. It was like beauty pageant stuff. Money Boo Boo's Mini Me

[Beartracks]

38. LOL @ Money Boo Boo!! Hadn't heard that one. n/t

[mrs_p]

20. Great piece

I especially likes this excerpt on Ryan:

"Also, he explained winter."

[Window]

21. Excellent!! Thanks for sharing.

n/t

[TheKentuckian]

22. Damn, that shit was dope!

Great write up!

[freshwest]

24. Appreciate this straight talk from Pierce. This is exactly what's wrong with Ryan and Romney.

[rhett o rick]

25. I disagree. I think there is a huge difference between Palin and Lyin Ryan.

One that shouldnt be overlooked. Palin is a dimwit and therefore IMO not dangerous. Lyin Ryan IMO is very smart, he is just a mean sociopath. Dont underestimate him.

[Raster]

26. ryan is NOT a smart man. He just plays one in Congress.

[gkhouston]

45. +1000. Ryan reminds me of a suitemate I had in college who thought she was

soooo smart... and then got really upset when I got A's and she got C's in an upper-level History course we were taking.

[femrap]

30. To me

Mi$$ RobMe is the sociopath. Ryan isn't charming enough.

[rhett o rick]

32. Cheney isnt charming at all. nm

[femrap]

43. I always thought

of Cheney as a sadist. Maybe he's just evil incarnate....Satan.

True sociopaths can be charming when they have to be.

[rhett o rick]

44. I agree that Cheney is most likely evil incarnate.

And I agree that sociopaths can be charming, but they arent always.

[femrap]

46. I thought the definition of

being a sociopath was their ability to charm their way to the top and then back stab everyone they stepped upon. They simply have no conscience...and do what is required to attain their goal. They are charming only when they must be....when it suits their 'plans.'

I can't figure out how to label KKKarl, can you? Sadist, at least....possibly closeted so that really makes him angry and that anger has to go somewhere.

Grover Norquist is another one. If he hates Gov't so much, move to Somalia, right?

I wonder if any of them see shrinks?? Doubtful.

I just can't believe that Cheney got a new heart...and it hasn't changed him in the least.

[4_TN_TITANS]

27. k/r Best quote ever...

Joe Biden laughed at him? Of course, he did. The only other option was to hand him a participation ribbon and take him to Burger King for lunch.

[femrap]

28. This is the best

review of all. Just stellar!

[malaise]

31. The best part of this commentary

There is a deeply held Beltway myth of Paul Ryan, Man of Big Ideas, and it dies hard. But, if there is a just god in the universe, on Thursday night, it died a bloody death, was hurled into a pit, doused with quicklime, buried without ceremony, and the ground above it salted and strewn with garlic so that it never rises again.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-debate-joe-biden-13626962#ixzz298AYK6RB

[porphyrian]

34. . n/t

[Generic Other]

35. "zombie-eyed granny starver"

That man has a way with words.

[Cha]

36. Charles Pierce knows how to eviserate Twit "Zombie-eyed Granny Starver"! nm

[Hoosier]

37. boom chakalaka

that is something!

[DirtyDawg]

39. Actually...

...there were other options. Joe could have used 'There you go again.' - but that's so last century...or he could have just called out 'lar, liar pants on fire.' for an hour and half...so instead he chose to shake his head in disbelief and chuckle.

[oldbanjo]

40. I think Romney, Ryan and Walker would wear lipstick

if the Koch brothers asked them too. They are bought and paid for, they are whores for the Republican Party.

[mattclearing]

41. "Also, he explained winter." n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

42. You know what's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan? Lipstick.

That was priceless.