Romney set to choose 'ideas man'

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: BBC News

The US TV networks are reporting that 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan will be Mitt Romney's choice as vice-president.

If they are right, it is a bold and ideological choice for a candidate who has been fairly cautious.

The Romney campaign are haunted by John McCain's choice in 2008 of Sarah Palin. She certainly enlivened an already very lively campaign, but did much to put off the middle ground.

If it is Ryan, he will perhaps be seen by some as another "boring white man" but in political terms he's pretty exciting. He's best known for producing a controversial conservative budget plan, which among other things, puts medical help for the poorest in the hands of the individual states.

The Democrats will be prepared to attack, and some seem to be salivating at the opportunity. When it was published President Obama dismissed Ryan's budget plan: "I believe it paints a vision of our future that's deeply pessimistic. There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19221219

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British take on the Ryan choice...

[tomm2thumbs]

1. bbbbbbut Newt said HE is the ideas man?!!

oh he's going to have to make sure that 'When Mitt Romney Came To Town' video gets out to all his buddies now, so they know he should've been a contender

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Yeah, "he coulda been a contender!"

Poor Newt--always an "also ran"!

[dixvilleninotchka]

3. He's there so no one notices Willard doesn't have any ideas?

It's a little late for that now. So Paul "Eddie Munster" Ryan guarantees Florida for President Obama. That won't be the only gift he gives the President this year.

Ryan's never run with the big dogs. He's about to learn some hard lessons.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Pauly is there to run interference to Mitt's right...

to keep the mouth-breathers quiet and docile enough to come to the polls in Nov.

And yeah, this definitely puts Florida in the "leans Democratic" column! Bring it!

[nxylas]

12. Yep, I've been wading in the malarial swamp of the RW blogosphere

All the people who said they would never vote for Romney are now saying "I won't vote for Romney, but I'll vote for Ryan".

[Surya Gayatri]

13. "Malarial swamp"! Bwaahaaaa!

Sneaked a peek over at FR and saw the same phenomenon. Some of them are in an orgasmic froth!

[BlueStater]

4. It's not remotely bold.

It just shows that Romney is a gutless turd who is too cowardly to stand up to the lunatics in his party.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Totally agree, this is an act of desperation

and not of boldness.

[Cosmocat]

11. Everything the Rs do is bold - Palin was BOLD

The "liberal" media will join the Rs in a several week long circle jerk over him, but end of the day he is a lightweight who simply looks good with this flip haircut repeating the same tired "cut taxes and spending' BS.

He could have done worse, he won't be Palin bad.

But, he is an intellectual lightweight who is a republican creation and thereby an elite media wunderkind.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. Yeah, "bold" does seem to be one of their favorite clichés...

wish they'd use their thesaurus to vary things a little!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. So we should listen to Ryan's numbers while Mitt hides his tax numbers?

Yeah. Bring it on.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Delicious! Every time Pauly opens his mouth about the deficit, blah blah, blah...

the elephant lurking in the corner will be Mitt's tax status!
Brilliant!

[hobbit709]

9. And all his ideas are bad.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. We know it and the electorate is about to discover it!

Assuming Mitt loses, this campaign should just about shut down Pauly's political ambitions for 2016...two for the price of one!

[alarimer]

14. Yes, shitty, horrible, stupid ideas that will kill the middle class forever.

Paul Ryan is an evil, twisted little fuck.
He's dangerous because, unlike Sarah Palin, he is smart and articulate.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Just smart enough to be dangerous, filled with his

Ayn Randian wet dreams...

[CanonRay]

15. I suppose bad ideas still count as ideas

Captain No-Fun and Lieutenant Queeg. Have fun, boys.

[Surya Gayatri]

17. The more his bankrupt ideas and destructive philosophy become

known, the more the electorate will reject him.

[Myrina]

19. Yes: bad, bad, evil ideas.

n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

20. Adolescent, ayn randian wet dreams...

[wordpix]

21. rofl - Ryan voted ""Biggest Brown-Noser" by his classmates in HS, according to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan

HS is where he learned how to brown nose the 1% of this country

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Well, his head was pretty far up Mitt's backside

during their show this morning. It can only get worse.

That yearbook picture needs to go viral!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. Ryan's vision of cutting Medicare

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