CNN's Candy Crowley Claims Some GOPers Think Ryan Pick ‘Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish’

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 11, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

As NewsBusters has been noting all Saturday morning, now that Paul Ryan has been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, the goal of the Obama-loving media is to rip him to shreds.

Doing her part Saturday was CNN's Candy Crowley who claimed some Republicans think this "looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CNN's Candy Crowley Claims Some GOPers Think Ryan Pick ‘Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish’

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: We’ve already had this debate. All they have to do at Obama Reelect is open up the files because this debate has already happened. They just bring it back, it goes, it is, you know, what they talk about. But I think the other thing that’s worth pointing out is not every Republican has signed on to this kind of, I mean, they will publicly. But there is some trepidation…

GLORIA BORGER, CNN: They're afraid.

CROWLEY: ...that this might be, looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish. That, oh, my gosh, do we really want to talk about these thing? Is this where we want to go when the economy is so bad? We could have stayed on that.

A ticket death wish?

Readers are advised this came right after CNN's Gloria Borger called Ryan "a polarizing figure."

Is this how the folks at CNN think they're going to improve their continually declining ratings?

[VRWCarea51]

Looks like Candy didn’t get her free vibrator yesterday along with andrea Bitchell

[VRWCarea51]

Iam putting money on it being Johnny McMee

[SuziQ]

"That, oh, my gosh, do we really want to talk about these thing? Is this where we want to go when the economy is so bad? We could have stayed on that."

What 'things' is she talking about? I haven't seen any of the coverage today, because I worked til 3:30, then went straight to a cook-out. Ryan is the PERFECT candidate for talking about the economy, but maybe that's WHY they don't like him. He's been honing his arguments on this country's fiscal problems for a couple of years, so he'll be pretty formidable.