Posted on 10/09/2012 11:37:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
By drafting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney thought he was adding a franchise player to the GOP ticket.
The Wisconsin congressman came across as a serious-minded wonk with washboard abs. Over the previous two years, he showed an ability to both charm the beltway chattering class and excite the Joe Six-Packs. His warnings about the all-consuming expense of entitlements like Medicare made him an intellectual adversary of President Obama.
But two months into running for vice president, hes lost his golden boy sheen. Thursdays debate showdown against Vice President Joe Biden may give Ryan an opportunity to regain that luster. Just as Romney breathed life back into the campaign with a stunning takedown of Obama last week, Ryan needs to demonstrate that hes a compassionate cost-cutter whose reforms will save Medicare and Medicaid and not destroy them.
"If Ryan is as solid as Romney was, the meme about [the] campaign shrinking his stature will completely cease," tweeted Austan Goolsbee, an Obama economics adviser who returned to the University of Chicago after serving in the administration.
So what went wrong?
(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...
MoJo is so 90ish. Biden is so 50ish with his "man", "let's rumble" speak, very immature for the very highly educated ELITE that they pretend to be.
Will the Veep Debate Help Ryan Get His Mojo Back?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942357/posts
Paul Ryan to reporter: Dont stuff words into my mouth (Watch Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942215/posts
Bias: WaPos Astounding Hit Piece on Paul Ryan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938862/posts
Big California Dem. Compares Paul Ryan to Nazi Joseph Goebbels
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2926067/posts
Woman at GOP Rally, I was not calling Ryan out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2941134/posts
Paul Ryans Black Ex-girlfriend and the Art of Race Baiting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2937050/posts
CNN lapdog adds breadbasket to Handbook of Racial Code Words after hearing Paul Ryan speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931574/posts
Oh really Mr.Reptilian Republican?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924811/posts
Paul Ryan Booed By AARP Crowd For Promising To Repeal Obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934471/posts
Washington Post: Mr. Ryans misleading speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924610/posts
The Assault on Paul Ryan II
The mainstream media fact checked Paul Ryans speech with alacrity. At the Washington Post, for instance, four of the five most-read articles were, in effect, accusations that Ryan had lied. The New York Times published an article under the headline: Ryans Speech Contained a Litany of Falsehoods. The Associated Press accused Ryan of taking factual shortcuts. The Week magazine published not only The media coverage of Paul Ryans speech: 15 Euphemisms for Lying, but also Why Paul Ryan thought he could get away with lying: 6 theories. Heres the funny thing about most of these articles: They fail to cite a single fact that Ryan misstated or lie that he told.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2925319/posts
Thanks for posting this Zakeet. It’s going to get a lot hotter and heavier on Paul Ryan until the debate, even worse afterwards. And because he cites facts and figures there was an avalanche of factchecks after his last speech. we can expect even more this time around.
DON'T WORRY!!! I found it & sent it to him today.
He's going score a knock-out on Plugs in the debate.
Biden will not know what hit him after Ryan is finished...
Media still trying to tell us what to think, pathetic bast*rds.
Since when did Ryan “lose” his “sheen”???
Whatta load of crap.
I agree!...but “Plugs” is gonna leave so many openings that Ryan has to use a few zingers just to humor the senile idiot!...so “Plugs” can appeal to his base!.....
Result:..Plugs +2 with the base....Ryan +4 with the undecided....(Its gonna be a landslide...and I don't even like Romney!)
LMAO!...U said it 1st! but 10,000 of us were thinking it!
LMAO!...U said it 1st! but 10,000 of us were thinking it!
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