The future presidential competition is kept out of this race. Typically a very insecure or loser POTUS candidate picks a dead-ender. As hard it is to do that in the terrible GOP field where even Palin can keep resurfacing her smile, they managed to get an already polarizing useful idiot out of his Congressional power seat and supplant the miserably doubtful 2016 field everyone has been speculating on with little enthusiasm.
They can cut the rough edges off their wicked agenda by the human sacrifice of Ryan and flushing what does not currently work politically down with him so that the next guy can run down the middle. No more far right clown shows, no wasted wannabes of the "first" rank. No surrender, on the other hand, on ANY of the crap, not a nickel given back to the people or a single hope to the nation.
It was that or flounder. It was that or make the campaign all about 2016 contenders. This is another surrender to the very first strategy that was supposed to be temporary. Distracting noise to cover over their awfulness and the real awfulness never surrendered. A sham until the automatic kneejerk political axioms of GOP strategy kicked in because of the political distress they created to blame Obama with.
They had moderates, lesser knowns, better candidates- whom the GOP powers fear more than the Dems because people might actually empower sanity AND someone outside the circle. Bad enough with Palin but any new contender with some sane and service oriented personality above their control? Not their chess game.
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