Electrifying

Posted on August 11, 2012 at 8:00 pm by JM Ashby


Artist – Steve Greenberg

In other news, Team Romney doesn’t want to run on the Ryan Plan. They want to run on the Romney Plan.

They probably shouldn’t have picked him for VP then. Good luck with that.

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  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    Romney really is purely stupid if he thinks we won’t force him to run on the Ryan Plan.

  • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

    “The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

  • Victor_the_Crab

    If Ryan was indeed forced upon Romney by the Republicans, then you can bet it will be the Ryan Plan that will be implemented, if, God forbid, they actually win in November.

    • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

      Yeah, I’m thinking that Ryan was forced on Romney by the plutocrats financing his election. Really bad if true.

  • D_C_Wilson

    Mitt Romney on the the Ryan Plan to kill Medicare:

    1. “Very supportive.”“I’m very supportive of the Ryan budget plan. It’s a bold and exciting effort on his part and on the part of the Republicans and it’s very much consistent with what I put out earlier. I think it’s amazing that we have a president who three and a half years in still hasn’t put a proposal out that deals with entitlements. This president’s dealing with entitlement reform — excuse me — this budget deals with entitlement reform, tax policy, which as you know is very similar to the one that I put out and efforts to reign in excessive spending. I applaud it. It’s an excellent piece of work and very much needed.”

    2.”The right tone.” Romney told Talking Points Memo, “He is setting the right tone for finally getting spending and entitlements under control. …Anyone who has read my book knows that we are on the same page.’”

    3. “Marvelous.” “I think it’d be marvelous if the Senate were to pick up Paul Ryan’s budgetand to adopt it and pass it along to the president,” Romney once professed while in Wisconsin.

    4. “An important step.” “I spent a good deal of time with Congressman Ryan. When his plan came out, I applauded it, as an important step. … We’re going to have to make changes like the ones Paul Ryan proposed.”

    5. “The same page.” In March, on a local Wisconsin radio show called the Vicki McKenna Show, Romney told the host “Paul Ryan and I have been working together over some months to talk about our mutual plans and we’re on the same page.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/11/677861/romney-ryan-buget/

    He can run from it now, but it’s going to be an albatross around his neck for the rest of the campaign.

    • http://mdblanche.myopenid.com/ mdblanche

      An albatross he put there himself! And the truly sad part is he really was the best Republican running this year.

      • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

        Which is kinda like saying the frogs were the best Plague of Egypt.

  • muselet

    Smacking Paul Ryan around is good fun, but Kevin Drum warns us not to lose sight of the fact that it’s Mitt Romney at the top of the Republican ticket.

    1) … I think it would be a mistake to concentrate too much firepower on Ryan. He’s still only the VP, after all, and he’s oddly resistant to demonizing. Like it or not, his persona just doesn’t make him seem very threatening. We should take our shots, but keep our eyes on the brass ring: Mitt Romney himself.

    2) … I’ll repeat what I said this morning: Ryan’s just the VP. He presents plenty of opportunities for attack, but he won’t radically change the course of the campaign. Liberal firepower should remain mostly trained on Romney. He’s the guy that voters care about, not Ryan.

    3) Drum also links to Philip Klinkner who provides this from Lee Atwater to Dan Quayle: You were the best rabbit we ever had. Let them chase you and they’ll stay off the important things.

    Denizens of Left Blogistan needs to remember that Mitt Romney is the one to concentrate fire on, not Paul Ryan. Stay on the important things!

    –alopecia

  • mrbrink

    The media really has it’s corporate people hearts set on a close race and they really want you to be excited for Mitt Romney’s brand new clean slate. He’s earned a second look with this decision! Give him some time to prove himself– again. And again. And again.

    Mitt Romney and the Republican party have earned another head start.

    Gosh, they’re so excited!

    This is a game changer! A change gamer! Game on! Let the games begin! The game is now afoot! It’s all fun and games! Like Mr. Monopoly just fucked a Scrabble board and gave birth to something called Scrabopoly! They have no idea what it is, but they’re excited about it!

    Finally. They were starting to worry that Mitt Romney might not have the best chance to win this silly little event called, “Leader of The Free World.”

    Because apparently the guy who saved the whole country from being water boarded through a hostile Bain Capital buyout and sell-off needs to sweat it out until the very end and taught a lesson in proper gamesmanship, and the Vice President who put the office on his back and quietly returned it from Dick Cheney Hell hasn’t done enough to secure the confidence of American idiots.

    It’s not over til’ Mitt Romney has been afforded every last chance to defraud the country and finally win one for the honor of despicable people.

    • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

      brink, you are one fucked up dude.

      I like it.

      • mrbrink

        Thanks, Phydeaux. And I won’t feel slighted if you don’t appreciate all the Disqus email notifications when I hit the Like button 20 times a day. I can’t help it. I like stuff!