cant have that clip running all weekend.
So you roll out the dude you had planned for next week
DURING THE OLYMPICS.
Then you cancel all interviews.
Standard Operating Procedure right?
holy f**king s**t!

So sure he was that his personal superiority to Obama would be plain as day to economically desperate Americans, the same people he's been rolling over all his life.

But then the punches started coming. He'd seen that before, having run against Teddy Kennedy, but that was a Kennedy, a fellow aristocrat worthy of at least some respect. No way Obama could hit better and harder, no way the American people would buy it...

his candidacy. "Behold! I am come! To save you from the Black Man and those who care about the poor. I promise to cut my own taxes and reduce middle class workers to servitude. For lo, I shall do for this country as Bain Capital did for the companies I bought. And I shall profit greatly. So let it be written. So let it be done."

Welcome to the real world, MittWit!

He then didn't run for reelection and left office with an approval rating of ~34%.

If he is still that delusional, after his record of almost total failure, he needs the best psychiatrists money can buy. Good thing he can afford them.

I think he does politics as a hobby since he hasn't had a real job since 1999-2002 (we don't really know when he left that job). He is up against professionals now and is out of his league.

I think that is quite right. Who wouldn't want a white bastard over a compassionate black man?

This white man loves my Black President, thank you

My exact thought when I heard the news. They're going down and this is a last-ditch attempt to "win." I mean, why feign an image of political savvy when you can put all your right-wing poison into one vessel just in case you actually pull it off. Like the kid who grabs all the cookies in the cookie jar instead of just one because he knows he has almost no chance of getting out of the kitchen unnoticed by mom.

Besides, there's always Diebold and voter suppression...

I sure as hell hope the O campaign is well lawyered up and ready to take preemptive action in the face of voter suppression and election fraud!!

Hi there MADem! How're things...

All well with me--hope you're doing well, yourself!

Glad to hear all is well with you and yours. We survived a terribly difficult knee replacement surgery. All is well here, too.

that they are willing to debate Ryan's budget.



aka


Damn this frying pan is hot, we should jump down into that fire!

the deficit, the implicit, unspoken sub-text will be Mitt's tax status! Delicious!

When the Catholic Bishops don't like the Ryan budget, that's problematic for Ryan and RMoney!

He'd be longing for the days that they talk about his taxes...if he could get them off that subject.

I think they're all of a piece--one lies about his taxes, the other tries to get them lowered for rich folk like his New Boss!

So it's time to move up the VP announcement and make it Ryan for the surprise! factor.

It won't stop the taxes/millions/offshore accounts nightmare that Willard has been unable to shut down, it will give him a few days break from it, a week at most.

It will temporarily mollify some of the tea baggers and they will come out and vote for these idiots so they'll get some poll bumps.

It won't win them the election.

With any luck it will not only dig the Republican loss even deeper for this year in Florida (among other places), but poison Ryan's political future so he won't be able to get any traction on 2016. People have some strange ideas about Ryan. They're about to get enlightened.

to god's ears...
"With any luck it will not only dig the Republican loss even deeper for this year in Florida (among other places), but poison Ryan's political future so he won't be able to get any traction on 2016."

P.S. And a big welcome to DU! Excellent post!

Fuckin' A! I can't stand that little shit. He's so fuckin' smug, I just want to smack his smugness off his face.

without any redeeming personal qualities.

He's sure to be a hit on the campaign trail--Not! Except among the mouth-breathers, of course.

to the late and tortured Seamus), or he'll be regarded as the "hero" who did all he could, but was bested by forces beyond his control, to rescue a dogshit campaign.

Good thing Ryan has what's called a "strong nose"--he'll need it for all the brown-nosing he's going to have to do in the next eighty some odd days.

come out of this!

price of one.

Give the "coup de grace" to Rmoney's faltering campaign and cripple Ryan as a future political force.

a Saturday in the middle of August? The last weekend of the Olympics?

They should have had this ready to go 3 weeks ago to kill of the tax return story and they clearly waited a few extra days so that Ryan could finish his vacation.


Newsies like us will follow this but for most people the first reaction will be "Who is Paul Ryan?" the second reaction will be "Is he old enough to be President?"

wasn't in their game plan at the beginning of the week. Then came those polls.

I'm sure they would've preferred to wait for the Olympics to be over and to have the media stage to themselves.

The whold thing just smells of disorganized planning on the fly.

made on the fly!

Because of the budget and the fact that Ryan brings absolutely zero to Romney's policies.

Polls will dive, and the only way Romney wins if the black boxes give them the "edge".

It is not going to happen. Romney is so out of touch and so unpopular, that he is the Lurch the Fucking Stiff™.

risk big in hopes of winning big...but, this is obviously ill-timed and ill-conceived. They have no idea how this will play out on the national stage.

Lurch the Fucking Stiff™ (LOL) did this in extremis to "shock paddle" his campaign back to life.

Will Pawlenty keep being the obedient surrogate? We'll see...

This has been a clumsy, ill-conceived, amateurish roll-out. It resembles the rest of the Romney campaign's mediocrity and shallowness. You hit the nail on the head . . . this is as an inept and clueless presentation as is reflected by the candidate, himself. It's stunning in it's incompetence.

reflection of what we've come to expect from the Rmoney team--crass incompetence and flagrant insincerity.

The fake smiles and false bonhomie were cringe-making.

If you didn't know better, you could have mistaken it for a student council election rally at the local high school. Just not ready for prime time!

He has no broadening appeal. This is an implicit concession that they will probably lose, but want to energize the base to go vote down ticket.