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Picking Ryan Wasn't Bold; It Was Insane

Picking Ryan Wasn't Bold; It Was Insane
by BooMan
Sun Aug 12th, 2012 at 12:10:06 PM EST

Although Paul Ryan undoubtedly has some political and personal skills and will inject some much-needed energy into the Romney campaign, it isn't too hard to figure out why Democrats are elated about his selection. First, let's look at what picking House Republican Paul Ryan didn't do.

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USAT/Gallup Poll: Paul Ryan gets low marks for VP (Only Dan Quayle viewed less positively)

Source: USA Today

USAT/Gallup Poll: Paul Ryan gets low marks for VP

"Americans don't believe GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney hit a home run with his choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, with more of the public giving him lower marks than high ones.

Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, is seen as only a "fair" or "poor" choice by 42% of Americans vs. 39% who think he is an "excellent" or "pretty good" vice presidential choice.

USA TODAY/Gallup Polls of registered voters after the announcements of running mates since Dick Cheney in 2000 all showed more positive reactions. Only Dan Quayle in a 1988 Harris Poll of likely voters was viewed less positively than Ryan, with 52% rating Quayle as a "fair" or "poor" vice presidential choice. The Ryan poll includes all adults, not just registered voters."

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/08/paul-ryan-poll-vice-president-mitt-romney-/1#.UCkNcaFlQtt

Paul Ryan traded on insider information to avoid 2008 crash!

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that someone like Paul Ryan would trade on inside information gained through his position as a congressman to line his pockets, but this particular instance is especially egregious. Ryan attended a closed meeting with congressional leaders, Bush's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on September 18, 2008. The purpose of the meeting was to disclose the coming economic meltdown and beg Congress to pass legislation to help collapsing banks.

Instead of doing anything to help, Ryan left the meeting and on that very same day Paul Ryan sold shares of stock he owned in several troubled banks and reinvested the proceeds in Goldman Sachs, a bank that the meeting had disclosed was not in trouble. This is the guy Republicans want one heartbeat away from the presidency? He seems more than a little shady to me.

Have a look at Ryan's financial disclosure form for 2008--you can click on each page to enlarge them. The "Transactions" section begins on page 12--scroll through and look at all the trades Paul Ryan made on "9-18-08":

HERE ARE THE TRANSACTIONS!:
http://www.the-richmonder.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-traded-on-insider-information.html

No, YOUR Hair Is Marvelous!

Democracy Corps Study: Ryan Budget Doubles Obama Lead

Former Homeland Security Analyst On Being Retaliated Against for Work on White Supremacist Terrorism

Former Homeland Security Analyst Describes Being Retaliated Against for Work on White Supremacist Terrorism

Daryl Johnson worked for the Homeland Security Department and put together a report that was leaked to a “conservative radio shock jock” in southern California named Roger Hedgecock. The report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” which the shock jock made public in 2009, set off a conservative media frenzy. Media pundits thought the report was alleging conservative groups were populated by “terrorists.” The Homeland Security Department wound up repudiating the report in order to get the ruckus to die down.

Appearing on “Democracy Now!” this morning, he described his unit, which was looking at white supremacy and neo-Nazi groups, experienced retaliation after the right created such a brouhaha:

The numbnuts running Romney’s campaign have no earthly clue about the shitstorm they just triggered.

I Love The Smell of Panic in the Morning
By mistermix August 11th, 2012

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Ryan is a indication of just how unfocused and off-message Romney’s campaign has become. The core Romney pitch was supposed to be that he’s the successful CEO who’s going to run the country the way he ran Bain and the Olympics, and that he showed us what he can do as CEO of Massachusetts. After the Obama campaign and the press got through demolishing those fables, everything about them is tarnished and off-limits. So instead of putting some interesting non-politician captain of industry on the ticket, we’ve get someone who thinks he’s John Galt but who has actually spent his entire adult life in Washington DC either working for politicians or being one.

Ryan is a celebrity in a town that’s Hollywood for ugly people, so the notion that his pick is exciting or edgy is only true if your world view is constrained by the boundaries of the federal district. I’ll bet a majority of the voters that Romney needs to convince couldn’t pick Ryan out of a lineup, and when they are first introduced to him, they’ll see what he really is: just another white, male career politician. At least the Palin pick was somewhat interesting, since she came from Alaska, which is kind of exotic, and she was only the second female VP candidate in history. Only a campaign that reads too much Politico would think there’s something new or sexy about a 42 year-old guy who’s really into the budget.

Finally, since I live next door to NY-26 and saw how Kathy Hochul won a R+6 district by painting horns and a tail on Paul Ryan, it’s clear the numbnuts running Romney’s campaign have no earthly clue about the shitstorm they just triggered. If the Romney campaign had opened up their research filing cabinet and pulled out the “No Shit, Sherlock” folder, they’d have realized that people would rather have Medicare than some free market voucher fantasy cooked up at the last Heritage / Cato invitational circle jerk.

This pick might actually have reverse coattails. Before Ryan, it was actually a bit hard to pin down Romney’s position on fucking everyone out of Medicare, and most Congressional candidates could say they were for some kinder gentler variant of Ryan’s plan to put Granny on an Alpo diet. Now every Democratic press secretary in a House campaign is busy with the wayback machine so they can cobb just the good stuff out of Hochul’s press releases.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/11/i-love-the-smell-of-panic-in-the-morning/

What I have in common with Paul Ryan

SAT AUG 11, 2012 AT 05:13 PM PDT
What I have in common with Paul Ryan
by Cali Scribe

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.......... like me, Paul Ryan lost a parent -- a father -- at a young age; he was 15 when his father died. And like my family, his family got Social Security survivor's benefits. He was able to save his benefits and use those to pay for his college education at Miami University in Ohio. For my family, the survivor's benefits helped my mom pay the mortgage on our house -- she had a good job but it would have been a lot harder to make the payments, even in the 1970s -- and provided extras like going to Girl Scout camp and church ski trips, my new bike in 8th grade, my second sister's wedding, and all sorts of other "frivolities" that make life a little better.

And Paul Ryan, with his proposed cuts to Social Security, would like to see no other child to have the same benefits that he, and I, and many other children were able to receive.

This is just one reason why we need to support the re-election of Barack Obama, and to support the election of Democrats in the House and Senate, to derail these plans of Ryan's and others that would leave millions of American children in poverty.

Oh, one more thing, my dad was in the Navy during WWII -- I don't think he went off to war for his children and millions of others to be left destitute due to a twist of fate.

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the rest:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/11/1119140/-What-I-have-in-common-with-Paul-Ryan