Paul Ryan Rise Presents Challenge For Democrats

New York Magazine:

The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign--the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion--came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering.

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[Patrix]

09:08 AM on 05/04/2012

Paul Ryan was a senator when Bush wrecked economy,Where was his budget for 8 years of Republican FLEECING AMERICA . RACIST AGENDA

[Kathleen August]

10:05 AM on 05/01/2012

A challenge? Not really.

All you have to know about Ryan - a Catholic - is his well documented touting that sociopathic wack job hypocrite Ayn Rand as his inspiration and guru.

Ayn Rand - an atheist whose so-called philosophy - Objectivism - is fundamentally opposed to the very public service that Ryan claims she inspired him to make his career.

Ayn Rand - who viewed anyone with a social conscience as weak; the poor as parasites and expendable; who denounced Social Security and welfare - yet took both when SHE needed them.

Ayn Rand - who idolized a serial killer who murdered and dismembered a little 12 y/o girl, describing him as a "Superman" - and modeled her fictional heroes after him.

THIS is the warped guru whose turgid novels Ryan and many other highly placed members of the GOTP regard as a blueprint for a "new society."

And now Ryan is trying to distance himself from Rand for political gain - because the atheist part and me first-ism don't sit well with what he claims are his religious beliefs - not because the ideology he has espoused is demented.

I think Ryan is a little "too complicated" for dog catcher - let alone high political office.

[verylargehat]

02:09 AM on 05/01/2012

The only reason that Paul Ryan has any kind of prominence is because the other republicans in the race are so grotesque even when compared to him.

Who else is going to trot out a budget? Teabagger Joe Walsh who can't seem to pay the child support he owes his children? Please.

[smok]

09:29 PM on 04/30/2012

NOBODY WHO IS SANE BELIEVES THIS BS.....NOBODY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooKsv_SX4Y

[highercalling]

09:25 PM on 04/30/2012

Paul Ryan's rise in the Republican party is simple. He is a simplistic ideologue who has no interest in real people or real people lives. He is happy to put ideology before facts and ideology before truth. He has floated to the top of a party where there are no ideas and no interest in governance. For any evidence of this we just need to look at his cruel and staggering budget. Whislt giving a massive tax break to the wealthy,the Ryan budget plan Romney is so fond of slashes funding for Medicaid, food stamps, and other for low-income programs, nearly all of which Ryan's plan would eliminate over the next couple of decades.

Cruelty is part of the Republican platform, and Ryan has embraced it, much as he has embraced the teachings of his beloved St Ayn of Rand.

[smok]

09:25 PM on 04/30/2012

If Paul Ryan Knew What Poverty Was

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/rep-paul-ryan-takes-his-catholic-critics

[lofanforobama]

08:56 PM on 04/30/2012

Ryan reminds of a late night QVC husckster--shilling prepackaged pablum for the unassuming masses.

[Vapid]

08:54 PM on 04/30/2012

The Ryan budget is a godsend...for Democrats. For decades the GOP has been distracting low information voters from its core social Darwinist agenda with emotional, social issues that they've had no intention of resolving ("God, guns, and gays"). By rallying around the Ryan budget Republicans have stepped out from the shadows and are proudly flying their predatory capitalist freak flags. Democrats will happily point out each mean-spirited, self-dealing provision every day...all the way to November.

[nothingchanges]

08:52 PM on 04/30/2012

Why Paul Ryan's meteoric rise?

IMPO........

It's because when Social Security ends, a lot of people are going to finally wake up, and be very, very angry. looking for someone to get the blame.

The old pro's know better than to be the leading advocates of this.

Eisenhower spelled it out pretty succinctly in his letter to his brother in 1954......

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

The Republicans are out to end social security, and have been for quite some time.

The notable republicans don't want their name attached...........when it goes down.

[SLCPunk]

08:47 PM on 04/30/2012

Way too much to read. I'll tell you how: Nobody else was doing it.

[Rick Eriksen]

08:44 PM on 04/30/2012

F this frigin wantabe N**i...

[ktomas]

08:43 PM on 04/30/2012

Yet more 'mainstream' punditry pretending that nutty Paul 'Ayn' Ryan and his ridiculous 'throw grandma under the bus' budget proposals need to be taken seriously, for some unknown reason (probably Koch money is involved).

[Tea for me]

08:31 PM on 04/30/2012

Interesting to listen to his speech at Georgetown.

He is so used to being the Republican Golden Boy.....glib....smirky.... that he was nervous and uncomfortable sounding throughout, due to the latest Catholic chiding of him and his "principles":>)

Hmmmm.....look at Walker, Cantor, Priebus (RNC Chairman), and Ryan...really LOOK at them.
BloodLeSS??? Grey....pasty....sucked of color....all smirk, too.
Hubris, all over....cocky....heartless...
.I don't know about you but, VamPireZ come to my mind.

Tea..Democrats 2012...Let's put our life blood back into the economy by providing jobs...decent wages..health care...equality of treatment for ALL our people....
Vote Democrats local...state....federal.

[Stanley Spenger]

09:32 PM on 05/01/2012

OMG, now that you mention it...

[Tea for me]

11:15 PM on 05/01/2012

LOL..my post was held up for hours...so, I figured no one read it:>)
They really do, don't they?:>)
Tea..Democrats 2012

[Stanley Spenger]

09:34 PM on 05/01/2012

Nobody on this thread's defending them so far, either..

[Tea for me]

11:19 PM on 05/01/2012

There is no way anyone but a totalt00l could or would.
I really hope ol' MittLess chooses Ryan for his veep...that's why he is pulling the Judas2hisbeloved AR...my gd, the dream ads..the debates...the total beat-down on Nov. 6th:>)

Tea..Best to you and yours, Stanley

[SunnyDaySam]

07:30 PM on 04/30/2012

I like Ryan. I have actually seen his wingnut extremism (Turning Medicare over to Wall Street) turn very long-time Republicans into Democrats overnight. They got scared.

[Karma2U]

07:20 PM on 04/30/2012

Ryan rose to the top because he was the only Gold Over People re who bothered to come up with a budget. It's awful, anti-American and pro-corporation - and the rest of the Gold Over People party loves him for it.

[Americanwoman55]

08:18 PM on 04/30/2012

Church run hospitals making huge profits and drug companies in bed with them with Ryan backing them!!!!

[lofanforobama]

08:57 PM on 04/30/2012

GOP wet dream...

[Dangaio]

09:42 PM on 04/30/2012

Nice use of their favorite acronym. They ceased being the Grand Olde Party some time ago. I think it was between Bush 41, who put the country before his reelection by making the hard choice to keep the government working by going back on his big campaign promise, and Bush 43 who let his VP rubberstamp torture, got into several unpaid for wars(at least one under false pretenses), alienated most of our foreign allies, and set the record for most vacation days taken by any president.