NP - Romney/Ryan

[Otto]

Isn't this good for the Obama-team?

2012/8/11 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> Charles Pierce:
>
> Leave it to Willard Romney, international man of principle, to get himself
> bullied into being bold and independent.
>
>
> Make no mistake. In his decision to make Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed
> granny-starver from Wisconsin, his running mate, Romney finally surrendered
> the tattered remnants of his soul not only to the extreme base of his party,
> but also to extremist economic policies, and to an extremist view of the
> country he seeks to lead.
>
> In addition, Romney now has forced the administration itself to confront its
> own silly attempts to woo Ryan as a serious man of policy back in the day.
> Granted, they split rather permanently last April, when the president,
> correctly, referred to Ryan's "budget" as "thinly veiled social Darwinism."
> (Ryan got all sad about how things had deteriorated.) But, prior to that,
> the president had treated Ryan as though the president were, oh, I don't
> know, a CNN anchor or something, specifically wooing him prior to the big
> health-care summit back in 2010, when everybody was oh-so-reasonable while
> the howler monkeys were out across the dim horizon, photoshopping bones
> through the president's nose. Nonetheless, it can be argued — and I'm fairly
> sure it will be — that Ryan is the logical end of any Grand Bargain the
> White House strikes on the economy and on debt reduction. And, if you have
> committed yourselves to that latter purpose over most others, then it's
> harder for you to argue against a guy who's more committed than you are to
> your own ultimate goal.
>
>
> I have none of those problems.
>
>
> Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform
> entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because
> he doesn't believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a
> smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which
> he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of
> political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have
> one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary
> institution of that commonwealth: our government. The first three words of
> the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he's ever
> given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien
> that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million
> people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius
> can be channelled for the general welfare.
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-romney-vp-pick-11562917#ixzz23FvKJ3YX