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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 07:55 AM Sep 2012

NYT: Conservatives want to 'unleash' Paul Ryan!

They still think that Paul Ryan--Lyin' Ryan!?--is an asset!?

New York Times: "Through the halls of Congress and well beyond, a whisper campaign is bursting into the open: Rather than burden him with the usual constraints on a ticket's No. 2 not to upstage or get ahead of the presidential nominee, let Ryan be Ryan and take a detailed, policy-heavy fight to President Obama and the Democrats."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/24/conservatives_want_to_unleash_paul_ryan.html

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livetohike

(22,125 posts)
1. Unleashed? Like the B.S. he is already spouting and calling the Pres. candidate "inarticulate"
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:01 AM
Sep 2012

isn't enough? Here's my advice: Yes, please be more like Sarah Palin because that went over really, really well in 2008.

CanonRay

(14,088 posts)
2. This will be one meme when they lose
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:13 AM
Sep 2012

If only we'd have unleashed Ryan sooner! Oh noes!

Edit; it's early and dark and I'm not awake yet

LiberalFighter

(50,795 posts)
5. I would love that to happen.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:28 AM
Sep 2012

He loses his congressional race.
He gives the Republicans one less excuse for why they lose and make it more difficult for them to regroup.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
7. By all means, please, please do unleash Lyin' Ryan.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:47 AM
Sep 2012

Put him in front of as many seniors as possible, where he can talk to his hearts content about replacing Medicare with vouchers and Social Security with the stock market.

And whatever other horrible ideas their so-called intellectual giant (did they mean jumbo shrimp?) has.

mojo2012

(290 posts)
8. Won't happen...
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:55 AM
Sep 2012

Romney's ego and arrogance won't stand for Lyin' Ryan to upstage him...His tone already seems bitter when Lyin' Ryan is mentioned. As in the 60 Minutes piece when asked about exceptions to abortion, he said he's (Ryan) isn't running for president, I am.....

JHB

(37,157 posts)
9. By all means, let him open up...
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 10:20 AM
Sep 2012

...and be shown for the empty shell that he is.

We already know his "detailed policy" doesn't actually have any detail, he just said it did and beltway pundits eager for a conservative wonk just took him at his word. Everyone who has actually looked at his policies has found all the detail of the Underpants Gnome's business plan.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
10. Speaking on behalf of Rob Zerban (Ryan's WI-1 CD opponent)...
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:07 PM
Sep 2012

Please do. Please let Ryan talk at length about his plans to liquidate Medicare and tax the snot out of the middle class.

I'm sure that Rob is hoping that Joe Biden hangs Ryan out to dry during the VP Debate. It could be enough to turn his district blue.

Yavin4

(35,423 posts)
11. Not Gonna Happen. Ryan is Strapped in his Kennel Atop the Romney Campaign Bus.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:30 PM
Sep 2012

Like all good Mitt Romney pets. Only Ryan will have to clean his own loose stool.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
13. "Policy-heavy?" Well.. they have to LIE about their policies because no one likes them.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:11 PM
Sep 2012

So they must be "LIE-Heavy" fight. Because they cannot CANNOT campaign on policy. Period. They get their asses booed out of the AARP when they do.

MittTwit and his Boy Blunder are running out of time to etch-a-sketch here. The desperations stinks to high heaven right now.

Blue Idaho

(5,038 posts)
14. Going Rogue - the Policy Wanker...
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:25 PM
Sep 2012

Every time Lyin' Ryan opens his mouth he reveals his shortcomings. This guy is a political lightweight so used to the easy audiences of the right wing echo chamber he actually believes the crap they write about him.

I say unleash Ryan and we can disappear him from the political stage completely in 2012.

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