The Media Coverage of Ryan Will Occur in 4 Phases

[Doctor Jack]

I am going to make a prediction and I am confident it will play out exactly in this way.

1.Next few days=We don't know what Romney's pick of Ryan means. Ryan has a lot of positives and negatives and at this point it is all a wash. On the one hand, he is a heartless bastard, on the other hand, he is a pretty boy. There is just no way of knowing what any of this will mean.

2. Lead up to the convention and post-convention=Paul Ryan: Brilliant Move by Romney or Super-Amazing Pick By Romney? Paul Ryan is so smart and so handsome and he really gave a super duper speech at the convention and conservatives just love him and independents are swooning over America's new lover boy. Obama must really be sweating now.

3. Mid to Late September=Boy, Paul Ryan fever is dying down. The Romney-Ryan Team seems to have trouble connecting with the average American and their ideas seem to be a bit too radical for most. We'll have to keep an eye on this, we aren't sure what it means. We'll have to see if they can get that energy back, blah blah blah blah.

4. October and into the election=As Romney sinks in the polls, many wonder if adding Paul Ryan to the ticket was a mistake. We political experts knew all along that it was a risky and desperate move, it just becoming clear to you laypeople now. Join us at 7:00 when we talk about how we knew this was a mistake from the beginning.


The media and politics are all very predictable.

[Merlot]

1. You've summed it up quite nicely - thanks for the spoilers!

[WI_DEM]

2. Where does this 'pretty boy' stuff come from? I've seen this all day on DU

I guess I'm the only person who doesn't think he's all that attractive.

[mindwalker_i]

3. He makes me feel like a 4-year-old who needs to run away

The Rude Pundit would say it better

[susanna]

4. No, you're not. He really DOES look like Eddie Munster (to me, anyway). n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. For Washington, he's a GQ type.

Remember, it's called "Hollywood for ugly people".

They even claimed this:

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looked like this:

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[Fermentia]

11. I don't think he is attractive either

I think he looks like an ostrich.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. Pretty Much The Same Arc Palin Had In '08

Which would make sense, since I've seen Ryan described as, "Sarah Palin with a penis."

[cleduc]

6. I think this selection is part of a reset for Romney

I think Ryan will be an advocate for Romney and he handles himself fairly well so the media will lap him up for a bit.

I think Romney will try to reset with a new plan - a new "contract for America" if you will.

And from that, they'll try to distance themselves from Romney's previous poor plan and the harshest/most toxic of Ryan's plan that hasn't been accepted.

The media wants a horse race and the billionaires funding Romney own them, so they'll play along.

At the convention, Romney will get the campaign donations in limbo made available to him once he's formally chosen and they'll step up the Koch-Citizen's United carpet bombing of Obama.

Unless Obama can hang Ryan's previous plan and these other issues on Romney/Ryan quickly defining him before the GOP, the race will likely tighten.

I can't stand the GOP and their awful behavior since Obama was elected. But they're not completely stupid people when it comes to stealing elections. They're ruthless and they want the power back.

This is far from over.

If people want Obama re-elected, or if they want things like Obamacare and all the things Obama has done to survive, or if they don't want a conservative GOP Supreme Court that will curtail Dem issues recently won, then there's a bunch of work to be done to stop Romney and his gang.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Very likely summary

We'll need to all keep our heads when the polls start reflecting some Romney "bounce", particularly through the RNC and shortly thereafter (at which time the DNC will happen and Obama will get a "bounce" as well, likely erasing Romney's "bounce). The final stages of the race should begin shaping up in late September early October and the polling should provide some indication of the final direction of the race.

As for Ryan, he's not as ignorant/stupid/naive as Palin but he does have plenty of radical ideas and, as the tone of his speech suggested this morning, he will be just as ruthless as Romney in his negative attacks and smears on President Obama. Fortunately, I think that Obama/Biden should (glad-)handle them fine, particularly in the debates to come!

[TeamPooka]

9. nice one

[JDStone]

10. Did anyone think about who Ryan looks like?

With that point of hair growing down the middle of his forehead, Ryan looks like:

Wolf-man or Eddie Munster!

[Fermentia]

13. I think he looks like a cross between

Eddie Munster and this ostrich.

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[Cooley Hurd]

14. A belated welcome to DU, Dr Jack - great post!

Might I ask, are you a real Dr or a Harold Lloyd fan?

[Doctor Jack]

16. I'm a doctor

Chiropractor and a medical doctor.

Not sure who Harold Lloyd is. But i am a fan of Harold Zoid

[corkhead]

15. Low hanging fruit

That was easy because that's exactly what happened 4 years ago

[Doctor Jack]

17. True but this tends to happen with any candidate that is clearly out of their league

The same thing happened to Rick Perry last year, a few tea party people in 2010, like Christine O'Donnell and that psychopath that ran for governor of New York. Really any candidate that sort of stumbles into their position and has little to no experience on the national stage. These people tend to fall apart very quickly. I don't know if Ryan is going to have the same problem that Palin had, meaning we find out that he is a total retard that can't string a sentence together. But i think his views will quickly catch up with him and he won't be taken seriously after the brief infatuation period. Ryan is out of his league in that he has no mainstream appeal, at all and it is going to scare people (including the media?). I doubt he will have any "i don't know what newspapers i read" kind of moments but i am sure we will get a lot of stunned silence out of people when he starts talking.

He could end up melting under the national spotlights but I think he is probably going to be end up being dogged by questions over his very, very extreme views and he will end up being a pariah by the end of the election.

[Doctor Jack]

18. Looks like it is playing out as predicted

Not to pat myself on the back or anything