Paul Ryan vs. The Stench

[Straw Man]

Paul Ryan vs. The Stench
By: Roger Simon
September 25, 2012 04:38 AM EDT


Paul Ryan has gone rogue. He is unleashed, unchained, off the hook.

“I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday.

Coming from a resident of Iowa, a state where people are polite even to soybeans, this was a powerful condemnation of the Republican nominee.

Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message” and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”

Even before the stench article appeared, there was a strong sign that Ryan was freeing himself from the grips of the Romney campaign. It began after his disastrous appearance on Friday before AARP in New Orleans. Ryan delivered his remarks in the style dictated by his Romney handlers: Stand behind the lectern, read the speech as written and don’t stray from the script.

Ryan brought his 78-year-old mother with him and introduced her to the audience, which is usually a sure crowd pleaser.

But when Ryan began talking about repealing “Obamacare” because he said it would harm seniors, one woman in the crowd shouted, “Lie!” Another shouted “Liar!” and the crowd booed Ryan lustily.

Who boos a guy in front of his 78-year-old mother? Other 78-year-old mothers.

That was Friday, and that was the end of Ryan following the game plan. At a certain point, all running mates on failing campaigns feel they must break free from the manacles placed on them by the top of the ticket. Sarah Palin began pursuing her own path once she learned that John McCain was having strategy sessions with his morning bowl of Farina.

Dan Senor, one of Romney’s closest advisers, has kept a tight grip on Ryan, traveling with him everywhere and making sure he hews to the directions of the Romney “brain trust” in Boston. (A brain trust, rumor has it, that refers to Ryan as “Gilligan.”)

But on Saturday, the day after he was booed, Ryan broke free. Appearing at a town hall meeting at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Ryan showed the glitz, the glamour, the razzle-dazzle that he was supposed to bring to the campaign in the first place.


He did a PowerPoint presentation for the crowd. According to the National Journal, be began thusly: “ ‘I’m kind of a PowerPoint guy, so I hope you’ll bear with me,’ Ryan told the audience as he began clicking through four slides, which showed graphs depicting U.S. debt held by the public from 1940 to present, debt per person in the United States, percentage of debt held by foreign countries and a breakdown of federal spending. He then launched into a 10-minute monologue on the federal debt.”

A word about PowerPoint. PowerPoint was released by Microsoft in 1990 as a way to euthanize cattle using a method less cruel than hitting them over the head with iron mallets. After PETA successfully argued in court that PowerPoint actually was more cruel than iron mallets, the program was adopted by corporations for slide show presentations.

Conducting a PowerPoint presentation is a lot like smoking a cigar. Only the person doing it likes it. The people around him want to hit him with a chair.

PowerPoint is usually restricted to conference rooms where the doors are locked from the outside. It is, therefore, considered unsuited for large rallies, where people have a means of escape and where the purpose is to energize rather than daze.

Ryan’s PowerPoint slides were officially labeled: “Our Unsustainable Debt (U.S. Debt Held by Public as a Share of Economy),” “Your Share of the Debt,” “Who Funds Our Reckless Spending?” and “How the Government Spends Your Money.”

The Romney campaign was furious. But Ryan reportedly said, “Let Ryan be Ryan and let the Stench be the Stench.”

According to Ryan’s official schedule, on Wednesday he “will attend a Victory Town Hall at Walker Manufacturing in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a Victory Rally at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado.”

Sources close to the Ryan campaign tell me his two new PowerPoint presentations will be: “How a Bill Becomes Law” and “Canada: Friendly Giant to the North.”

Ryan Fever. Catch it!Roger Simon is POLITICO’s chief political columnist.
 
© 2012 POLITICO LLC
 
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html

[240 is Back]

Ryan is in the same position that Palin was, back in 2008.

The crowd prefers him.  He knows the campaign isn't going well and is looking ahead.  ANd these uncomfortable moments just keep happening.  If Ryan was in charge of this campaign, they'd be tied/winning.  Romney's keeping his friends running the campaign, and it isn't working.

[Soul Crusher]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/politico-s-paul-ryan-satire-the-joke-s-on-them.html


STRAW AND 240 = FAIL


Gullible idiots 

[Soul Crusher]

Ryan is in the same position that Palin was, back in 2008.

The crowd prefers him.  He knows the campaign isn't going well and is looking ahead.  ANd these uncomfortable moments just keep happening.  If Ryan was in charge of this campaign, they'd be tied/winning.  Romney's keeping his friends running the campaign, and it isn't working.

You fell for it.   

[Fury]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/politico-s-paul-ryan-satire-the-joke-s-on-them.html


STRAW AND 240 = FAIL


Gullible idiots  

Hahaha. Talk about stupid fucks. I've got a bridge to sell these two clowns.

[240 is Back]

You fell for it.  

No, I didn't read nor comment on it.   I posted a video and said Ryan is in the Palin spot now.  I never addressed what straw wrote, and barely skimmed it.

Nice try, hoss, but you can post on a thread without agreeing with it.  

[Soul Crusher]

No, I didn't read nor comment on it.   I posted a video and said Ryan is in the Palin spot now.  I never addressed what straw wrote, and barely skimmed it.

Nice try, hoss, but you can post on a thread without agreeing with it.  

LOL!!!!


So you post and respond to things you don't even look at to bash Romney?  WTF dude 

[240 is Back]

LOL!!!!

So you post and respond to things you don't even look at to bash Romney?  WTF dude 

You read anti-romney threads all the time and only chime in to bash obama.

ryan is in a tough spot here.  obviously he isn't calling anyone 'stench' but he darn sure keeps making those faces in the background.  quite uncomforable.

[LurkerNoMore]

LOL!!!!


So you post and respond to things you don't even look at to bash Romney?  WTF dude 

Just like you posting shit you don't even read or can't comprehend?  Then by the fourth post on the thread you are getting your ass handed to you.

[Fury]

No, I didn't read nor comment on it.   I posted a video and said Ryan is in the Palin spot now.  I never addressed what straw wrote, and barely skimmed it.

Nice try, hoss, but you can post on a thread without agreeing with it.  

So you type up diatribes about things you know nothing about. Pretty biased, you fucking loser.

[Straw Man]

Since when did Politico become The Onion?

If this truly was satire and it fooled various media outlets then why should I feel embarressed

[Soul Crusher]

Since when did Politico become The Onion?

If this truly was satire and it fooled various media outlets then why should I feel embarressed

Because those leftist media outlets you progressive dopes circle jerk over are worse than useless rags. 

[Straw Man]

Because those leftist media outlets you progressive dopes circle jerk over are worse than useless rags. 

What does that even mean?

[Soul Crusher]

What does that even mean?

The incompetent leftist media outlets of course fell for that bullshit - they always do.   They don't do journalism, they simply parrot each others' daily communist propaganda talking points issued from 1600 PA Ave. 

[Soul Crusher]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/some-people-didnt-really-understand-that-romney



LOL!!!!

These are the geniuses the leftist morons on this site parrot and go to get brain washed!   

FNG morons like Krugman - TYPICAL 

[Kazan]

[chadstallion]

first there was 'santorum' [ google for definition of that frothy mix ]
now we have the Stench.

the GOP has an air about them....

[Fury]

first there was 'santorum' [ google for definition of that frothy mix ]
now we have the Stench.

the GOP has an air about them....

Haha, another genius steps up to the plate.

[Irongrip400]

If Romney loses, I think Ryan will be the front runner in 2016, as long as he doesn't lose steam like Palin did, if she ever really had it. That said, I'm voting for Romney.

[240 is Back]

If Romney loses, I think Ryan will be the front runner in 2016, as long as he doesn't lose steam like Palin did, if she ever really had it. That said, I'm voting for Romney.

Yep.  And I think Ryan won't be like Palin, trying to be obnoxious and disobeying at the end.  He'll give us his little quirks and funny looks, but he will be a true professional.  And he might be unbeatable in 2016, if ROmney loses.

Romney can still win, with a total obama collapse and a stellar romney debate.