Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan is the perfect choice for Romney.
Romney is a weasel, spineless, without direction or conviction, dedicated to kissing the ass of the wealthy and destroying the lives of middle America.
Ryan COMES ACROSS as a sincere, hard nosed, decisive guy. It's like Bush/Cheney 2.0, except Cheney really was a tough cookie.
Ryan is the perfect choice because he has the tools to sell a regressive policy that will destroy the middle class and America financially, strip women, gays and minorities of their rights, destroy the lives of seniors and sabotage the promise of higher education ( further weakening any chance for America to make a comeback) to his rabidly uninformed, unintelligent, and racist base.
Romney cannot even wipe his own ass without directions.
I was in the kitchen doing kitchen things this morning but Carol had Morning Joe on and I overheard the Romney/Ryan thing at a rally. Romney savagely attacked President Obama for negative ads which is so hypocritical it is beyond belief. He made it sound like President Obama is slinging mud and avoiding substantive discussion when in truth it is Romney his own goddamn self that is doing just that. You cannot pin this weasel down on one important point.
And that is because he has only one point - take care of his rich devotees and screw the middle class.
Someone at the rally apparently shouted out at Romney - the guy was escorted from the event - and Romney waxed eloquent on how his supporters are respectful and they listen politely and they do not disrupt.
Like the guy who shouted at me "F**k that ni*ger" when he saw the bumper sticker on my wife's car. Or the people who answer phone polls with "Someone ought to kill that ni*ger". Carol works one night a week for the re-elect President Obama campaign, inputting info from phone calls, and they have gotten this kind of response a few times. And these are calls to INDEPENDENTS - they do not even call republicans.
I didn't hear Romney criticizing anyone when a member of Congress called President Obama a liar or when a member of the press rudely interrupted him during a press conference.
Romney is a dangerous phony but an obvious one.
Ryan is an accomplished actor. Much more dangerous.
At the same rally the attendees started chanting USA, USA, which is what mindless people do as an expression of patriotism. These same people think Born In The USA is the ultimate expression of patriotism.
Idiots.
Ryan's magical budget and his policies would: lower taxes on the rich, raise middle class taxes, drastically reduce funding for higher education, scientific research and clean energy investments, turn Medicare into a voucher program costing seniors a significant amount of money, and move the country backwards on womens' rights, civil rights and gay rights.
Ryan is extremely dangerous because these are his positions and he has the demeanor to defend them eloquently. republicans squirm when they listen to Romney but they will chant USA and sing Springsteen when Ryan lies. I mean speaks.
The rich irony is that these same bozos who cheer wildly are the exact same people Romney/Ryan will gleefully screw if, God forbid, they get into office. And they don't even know it.
But Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan do.
Which makes them the lowest scum on this earth.
The Ryan choice sets up the ultimate presidential election cage match. There will be blood.
R&R represent the status quo - the status quo that has destroyed your life and your hopes and your dreams and any chance of ever getting them back.
President Obama represents an opportunity to reverse the vicious, greed filled history of this country, or at least to fight back hard against it.
I will say this over and over again.
If Romney and Ryan win it will mark the darkest day in this country's history (and there have been many). Years later a broken, hopeless, suffering populace will say:
"What have we done?"