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DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:07 PM Sep 2012

Romney Campaign Sends In Champion Of The Poor Paul Ryan For Damage Control

Following the widespread controversy over Mitt Romney’s recently leaked comments criticizing Americans who depend on the government, Republican vice presidential candidate and widely beloved champion of the poor Paul Ryan was quickly called in Tuesday to bolster the Romney campaign.

“We’ve obviously been set back a bit, but thankfully we have the perfect guy to the right the ship and win over the nation’s lower class,” said campaign manager Matt Rhoades, adding that Ryan was the first person he thought to call when the video of Romney’s candid discussions with ultra-rich donors emerged yesterday. “Even if we take a hit among lower-income voters in the polls for a day or two, Congressman Ryan will, amazingly enough, win them back to our side, just like he always does.”

“I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” Rhoades continued. “Poor people just love him.”

According to sources, Romney’s advisers have dispatched the modern-day Robin Hood to speak to voters in the most economically downtrodden regions of the country, where thousands of working-class Americans are already lining up outside the venues of Ryan’s upcoming rallies to don T-shirts and wave handmade signs in support of the selfless guardian of the poverty-stricken.

“Paul Ryan sticks up for us when no one else will, everyone knows that,” said 49-year-old unemployed construction worker Vernon Fletcher, calling Ryan a true beacon of hope for the nation’s impoverished. “He’s in it to the last round, fighting tooth and nail for every struggling, blue-collar man and woman in America. He’s done it time and time again, and he’s done it again today.”

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-campaign-sends-in-champion-of-the-poor-paul,29608/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

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nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
4. Deep in that sarcasm I bet there's a kernel of truth.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:13 PM
Sep 2012

Mittsie is getting to the point where he's gonna have to do more than pull a rabbit out of his netherparts.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
5. Modern day Robin Hood =
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:15 PM
Sep 2012

Romneyhood, where you rob from the poor and middle class to pay for the rich men's wars.

diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
6. Isn't that like taking a victim who was mauled by a Bear (Romney) and then
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:15 PM
Sep 2012

throwing that victim into a Piranha tank?


How much torture is the campaign going to shove on us? Will we hear Queen Ann do a second version of "You People" and "Let them eat cake". by Friday?

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
8. Win over "the nation's lower class?" You, Mr. Rhoades, are the lowest class of people - you lack
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 10:56 PM
Sep 2012

basic human skills.

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