Posted on 08/13/2012 7:41:15 PM PDT by i88schwartz
"I've been covering politics since way before Tim Tebow was born," Dan Rather, the disgraced former anchor for CBS' "Evening News" said on the Monday night broadcast of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" program. "But these things unfold as time goes on. And while right now Ryan looks like he is toxic for the ticket, it could be as we get deeper in the campaign, that this intelligent man, he is intelligent and serious man, will show something that people do not now see."
"In the early going, in the early going, Ryan damages the ticket because rightly or wrongly, he's perceived as someone out to kill Medicare and Medicaid, and for that matter, doesn't feel all that good about Social Security," Rather said. "Now, this is toxic in Florida. I'm not saying Romney will lose Florida. I'm saying that as of today, he has less chance of carrying it than he had before."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Rather was hoping Romney would have picked Hugo Chavez or Noam Chomsky. Karl Marx has been dead for quite a while, so he was definitely out of the question.
“This reassures me that Ryan’s the right pick.”
BINGO! Every time a lib journo is ‘concerned’ about a Pubbie’ politician is simply code for “F&&&, they have a winner there and we’re stuck with brain-dead Biden”..
Well, since Dan Rather doesn’t like Paul Ryan, that makes me like him even more, LOL!
off topic—I’m laughing a bit because my dog is going crazy, pawing at the porch that is five feet above the ground—she can either smell or see, or hear, the raccoons we have around here. We’ve also had skunks.
Okay, logging off to close all the doors; screens aren’t enough (our A/C broke). My dog has had her rabies shot but with the drought we’ve had, the wild animals are going nuts.
Sorry for the O/T info. I may just have to take a trip to Freeper Island... where informative threads go to lose their way. :)
Shut up, Dan. You are totally out of touch with U.S. politics in the TEA Party era.
We can’t wait to see you crying on camera on Nov. 6.
“Dan Rather”
The very picture of irrelvancy. Probably still trying to find W’s national guard records.
muck raking
Since DR’s shorts are in a wad....Romney dun right!!
Good ol’ Dan ... like a dog to its own vomit.
Dan longs for a shot at reorienting Maddow.I think it's a looooongshot.
“Too bad ticket isn’t upside-down.”
Ryan/and the other guy - 2012
It’s the only way I can deal with it. ;>)
Obama must go....
Dan Rather also slyly hinted to Richard Maddow that he’s heard some troubling things about Paul Ryan from his trusty source, Lucy Ramirez.
I wonder if this source is as trustworthy as his source on W’s draft-dodging.
Dan... you would be in the gutter or dead if mark cuban hadn’t been such a pinko (communist lite) and taken you in from the cold.
LLS
You just insulted all ‘15 year old boy(s)’...
Dan Rather. The original “Mr. Toxic.”
Made up any good stories lately, Dan? This certainly isn’t up to your most famous work.
Well if Dan Rather doesn’t like him he must be good.
Dan Rather is toxic to everything, including himself as it turned out.
Disgrace is too kind of a word. This bozo should be in jail for election fraud.
Didn't he mess up while driving Barbie over the bridge in his plastic Oldsmobile after having had too much Pepsi for lunch?
I do believe the other side sees it as well and it scares them.
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