I hate to seem dense... and please forgive the language...

[cthulu2016]

Last edited Fri Aug 17, 2012, 10:38 AM - Edit history (5)

It is said that the Ryan VP candidacy could hurt congressional candidates down ballot because those candidates might somehow be associated with Ryan's unpopular budget.

The fear is that voters could get some crazy idea that Republican congressional candidates might in some way support the Ryan budget.

Excuse me for being dense, but...

[FONT SIZE=5]235 House Republicans and 40 GOP Senators, 98 fucking percent of all Republicans in Congress, [/font size][font size=6]VOTED FOR[/font size][font size=5] the fucking Ryan budget.

In 2012. Like, a few months ago. On TV.[/font size]

[RedStateLiberal]

1. Yep, and the fact that Ryan is on the ticket

means we have an easy open to keep reminding everyone about those Republicans who voted for his draconian bullshit.

[freshwest]

4. We need to reiterate this throughout the campaign. Government by extremists.

Unfortunately, a third of the electorate are in that camp and they are addictedf to their propaganda.

[flamingdem]

2. If the US electorate has a brain

we should be able to wipe the floor with those R's

[TreasonousBastard]

3. That's a big "if" ...

for an electorate that gae us Shrub twice.

[freshwest]

5. +1 and they didn't learn anything from it, either.

[BlueToTheBone]

9. It wasn't the electorate...it was the machines

that gave us *.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Great post.

There is that!

[cthulu2016]

10. Yes, there is that.

[silvershadow]

7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show of campaigns. Can anyone say "toast"?

[gkhouston]

12. "...it's all over. Your mission is a failure. Your lifestyle's too extreme..." n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

16. "I'm your new Commander, you now are my prisoner"

[UnrepentantLiberal]

8. The point is that most people don't follow politics

that closely and had no who Ryan was or what his plan was. By selecting him as his running mate, Romney placed a very bright spotlight on it. Now everyone who watches the news at all knows what the Republican Party is really about. Why do you think John Sununu is so pissed off? This isn't supposed to come out until after Republicans are elected and most Americans aren't paying attention and it's too late to stop them.

[Tennessee Gal]

11. Yes, they did. What is the favorability rating of that Congress now?

Ten percent of Americans in August approve of the job Congress is doing, tying last February's reading as the lowest in Gallup's 38-year history of this measure. Eighty-three percent disapprove of the way Congress is doing its job.

10% approval!!!

http://www.gallup.com/poll/156662/Congress-Approval-Ties-Time-Low.aspx

So, Romney chose a controversial member of a Congress with a horrible approval rating by the American people, perhaps because of the vote you sited. Not very smart.

[cthulu2016]

13. What is odd is that people who voted to end Medicare are upset

that Romney picked the guy who wrote the bill they voted for.

If they were so worried about facing the voters after voting to end medicare they could always have—just throwing out a wild idea here—not voted to end medicare in the first place.


It's surreal.

[Tennessee Gal]

14. Very few of them, if any at all, have the guts to buck

the fall in line pressure from people like Boehner, McConnell, and Grover Norquist. Those folks threaten those who don't fall in line with finding candidates to run against them in the primary, essentially threatening their seats in Congress. If they want the chance of keeping their seats, they are forced to vote in line and then go home to face angry voters.

[cthulu2016]

15. money

This stuff has little to do with what voters want and everything to do with the fear of being primaried by a handful of billionaires.

I don't know if that party is run by ten people or a hundred people... but it's way under a thousand. And they control all federal government spending.

[just1voice]

17. "down ballot" in a corrupt country means nothing, only money counts

Most political talk is just a purposeful distraction on the politician's part, they do it to pretend like they're actually doing something besides taking bribes.

[Cleita]

18. This is almost funny.

A big screw them from me.