Paul Ryan?!?
Bad pick.
Romney just threw the election, just like John McCain.
Back in the early 80's, Devo made fun of this stereotype creating this image for themselves:
The image has become only more and more of a mockable stereotype in the years since.
That the Republican Party believes this is a winning image in this day and age, is sad.
It's a demographic/psychographic thing.
Romney and Ryan are two white guys.
Mitt Romney is the perfect stereotype of white guy, and Ryan is almost that as well.
Whites are a minority in this country.
Yet whites make up a large portion of those who would vote for a Republican for President. White men are pretty much wrapped up. If Romney wanted to win he had to bring in other constituencies, which he could have done by picking Rubio or Jindahl.
Instead, he doubled down on his own stereotype. It is not that a white man can not win the Presidency. It is that a stereotype white man stands little chance of winning the Presidency if he continually doubles down on stereotype.
As Romney does, and has done, and has now proven he will do again and again.
This is yet another boneheaded, tone-deaf, and impotent choice by the Republican party.
Say goodbye to the election, and say goodbye to the economy. We're in it for the long haul. Cuba, here we come.
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I heard Birther shit about Rubio. I admit that I never investigated any of what I heard.
I, too, preferred Jindal, but perhaps for some reasons different than in the body of the post.
What does Paul Ryan bring? The conservative constituencies, I think.
As far as I know, he's not big business like Romney. Ryan got a B.A. and went to work.
Ryan does have charisma too.
What I'm about to say matters only to me....Paul Ryan is almost an dead ringer for a student who was in my homeschool classes for about 8 years. This young man now works counterterrorism with a private firm.
I don't yet think that all is lost. We shall see what the next few weeks bring, so I'll defer any judgment till then.
Pasto...you need to lighten up a little bit. Hell, I just listened to John Sununu last night with what's her face filling in for o'reilly. He is the epitome of confidence regarding Romney's campaign.
Give it a few weeks...they'll take their hits, but this country needs an education on how much debt we're in and what needs to be done to fix it. Gonna take some time to fix and Ryan can do it. Obama sure as hell isn't going to try.
in the immortal words of donald sutherland in the clint eastwood movie kelly's heros
enough with the negative waves moriarty.
not everything is about race. thats the democraps worldview. lets let them take it to joe b. and the unicorn riding lightworker.
and if they dont bring thier "A" game then you can complain
rumcrook,
Do you honestly think I think everything is about race?
I am not saying I believe everything is about race.
The problem here, my friends, is not Pastorius' opinion.
The problem is not even Mitt Romney.
The problem is the image Mitt Romney portrays and the doubling-down on the same image, in the selection of Paul Ryan.
The problem is not one of ideas.
the problem is tone-deafness towards the idiot culture that we live in.
Conservatism which believes it is a set of ideas only is going to die.
Not until Conservatism realizes it has to sell a marketable product will we win.
You can't sell ice cubes to Eskimoes and you can't sell Devo to a culture who wants to buy Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Nikky Minaj.
funny-did RR see race-ie: white in the photo of the automatons dressed in blue-
I did not see white I saw automaton clones ...
which is how I now see the R establishment elites...
BTW-may just swipe this -like the photo and the music vid...
Carol-CS
CS,
Good point about them looking like automatons.
Feel free to swipe.
CS,
Good point about them looking like automatons.
Feel free to swipe.
Mitt Romney is the perfect stereotype of white guy, and Ryan is almost that as well.
Gotta hate those perfect white guy stereotypes: tall, handsome, good hair, physically fit, highly intelligent, hugely successful, extremely competent, clean living, honest, loyal, faithful, family men, role models.
Bring back that lard assed, degenerate, underhanded, crooked, lying, cheating, perverted horndog scumbag Clinton. Now *there* was a stereotypical white guy!
Whites are a minority in this country.
No they're not. Non-Hispanic whites make up 63% of the US population and well over 70% of the electorate.
If Romney wanted to win he had to bring in other constituencies, which he could have done by picking Rubio or Jindahl.
So pandering to whites, the people who built America up from a wilderness to the greatest country on Earth over the past 400 years and still make up more than 70% of the electorate, is bad. But pandering to insignificant johnny-come-lately minorities like Cubans and Indians is good. Is that what you're saying? Because that is an impossibly stupid strategy.
This is yet another boneheaded, tone-deaf, and impotent choice by the Republican party.
No it isn't, it's a brilliant choice. Choosing Ryan proves that Romney is serious about getting the deficit and debt under control. Obama, easily the most fiscally irresponsible president in US history, has run up $5.3 trillion in new debt in just 4 years. The US is now effectively Big Greece, an economic basket case totally subservient to its creditors. Except that unlike Greece, there are no other countries or institutions big enough to bail America out of its financial follies.
I believe that Paul Ryan is the first Catholic ever on a Republican presidential ticket. White Catholics are a crucial demographic group in presidential elections. Ryan's inclusion on the ticket more than cancels out whatever advantage the Democrats may have had with Catholics with Joe Biden as VP, and could tip the balance toward the GOP in a number of swing states in the Northeast and Midwest.
And not only are Romney and Ryan both Northerners, they're both from deep blue states in regions historically dominated by the Democrats, New England and the Upper Midwest. This is a brilliant, behind-the-lines political strategy that puts the Dems on the defensive in their own strongholds. It's the equivalent of what the Clinton-Gore ticket did to the Republicans in the South: attack them at their strongest point and peel away enough states to win the election.
Are you familiar with the Sailer Strategy, Pasto? Basically it involves the Republicans "pandering" to their white Christian base in order to win elections. In the 2010 midterm elections, the usual coalition of anti-white minorities (blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews and Muslims) voted--as always--overwhelmingly for the Dems. But the GOP won a huge victory by winning more than 60% of the white vote. How? By single-mindedly addressing the issues that their base (the almost all-white Tea Party movement) cared about, namely shrinking government and getting federal spending under control. Which are, not coincidentally, Paul Ryan's signature issues.
Say goodbye to the election, and say goodbye to the economy.
You are wrong, wrong, wrong. The Republicans are going to win this election, partly because of Romney's inspired choice of Ryan as VP. Now shake off your defeatism, man up and prepare to fight and win like a white man.
Hey Jeppo,
Good to see you. Hope life is treating you well.
YOu say this is a brilliant choice, and the Republicans are going to win the election. I hope you're right. And, I look forward to you telling me, "I told you so," come November.
Thanks, Pasto. Glad to see that you're back here blogging on a regular basis again.
Looking around at a bunch of different comments sections at various rightwing websites, it seems that Ryan is being very well received by the average Joe and Jane Conservative out there in internet land. That's why I was surprised at your negative reaction, it's one of the relatively few that I've seen.
Maybe you're right and this choice will end up backfiring on Romney. But I think it's a much better strategy to pick a proven conservative like Ryan in order to fire up the base and make sure they show up at the polls in big numbers, than to try and pander (Hispander?) to a disparate bunch of finicky independents by picking some inexperienced token minority like Marco Rubio. We shall see.
If we are as divided and polarized as we seem, and it's as close as recent races THIS IS ABOUT HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS MAKING PHONE CALLS AND DRIVING THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.
How about it folks?
Interesting, Jeppo. Epa says it's about volunteers getting out the vote.
You say it''s about getting the mobilizing the Conservatives.
I think it's about the independents who float between the two parties, and who voted for Obama last time.
That's why I believe they needed to pick someone who, like Obama, is young and reflects the multicultural truth and future of America; Jindahl or Rubio.
As I''ve said before, this has little to do with my preference. I like Paul Ryan. And, I guess if I had my pick, it would be Allen West, or someone who gets the Islamization issue (though most of those types, like Bachmann or Trento, are too conservative for my taste in other ways).
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