Monday, September 17, 2012
It is pretty well established at this point that the vice presidential nominee does little to nothing to help the ticket. It's a sideshow basically. Sarah Palin showed us that John McCain was prone to making decisions without really thinking them through. Darth Cheney demonstrated that Bush was a lazy thinker, prone to influence. I'm not sure what we learned about John Kerry after he picked John Edwards, but here's my point: Paul Ryan makes no difference. He isn't going to put Mittens over the top, and if we are super lucky he will lose his congressional seat too. All Ryan shows us is that (a)Mittens has no regard for the truth. The truth is as mailable as Mitt wants it to be, and Ryun's mendacity is irrelevant to him; and (b) even Mittens knows that the conservative wing of his party (which is, let's face it, the whole, entire party) hates him. He over-compensated with Ryan, but it isn't going to help.
// posted by Bill @ 5:11 PM 
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