Irish-Americans, in particular, ought to reject Ryan's bilge.

[chieftain]

Here's a quote from an important article regarding the GOP "intellectual" and his cultural heritage that he has abandoned to embrace Ayn Rand's heartless theories.
"Irish Alzheimer’s, goes the joke, is to forget everything but the grudges — in the case of the great famine, for good reason. What Alexis de Tocqueville called 'the terrifying exactitude of memory' is burned into Ireland’s soil. But more than forgetting, Paul Ryan never learned."


Here's a link to the article- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/paul-ryans-irish-amnesia.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1

[1000words]

1. Let a fool speak ...

We can hold our own.

[Voice for Peace]

2. kick - good article for St.Patty's Day

[chieftain]

3. Thanks

[WinkyDink]

7. Paddy's. As in "Paddy-wagon."

My middle name is Erin.

[Voice for Peace]

11. I was agonizing over the spelling.. almost

[Aristus]

9. As Winky-Dink said:

It's 'Paddy', as in Padraigh, Irish for 'Patrick'.

[Voice for Peace]

10. augh! of course

[Kingofalldems]

4. Funny that he claimed to reject Ayn Rand back during the

campaign, but now continues to spout her filth.

[chieftain]

5. In addition to being a phony intellectual

he is a liar.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Lying is the hallmark of conservatism.

[chieftain]

8. You're right.

And the lazy/co-opted media allows them to get away with it. Money and media complicity are existential threats to democratic governance.