For months, Mitt Romney repeated a common complaint about President Obama's professional background: he's spent his life in the political world, not the real world. While Romney's a businessman (notwithstanding 18 years seeking public offices), Obama's never run a business and never run a state. It makes Obama, the argument goes, a poor choice for national office.
Oddly enough, Romney hasn't repeated that line of criticism in a while. I guess we know why.
[Paul Ryan] worked in politics his entire life, beginning as an aide to Sen. Bob Kasten, then working for Sen. Sam Brownback and as a speechwriter to Rep. Jack Kemp. He's known as a relatively ideological politician who has put forward a detailed policy plan to remake the federal government. It's a rather different message about what's important. And how does Romney say the problem with Barack Obama is that he's "never spent a day in the private sector" and then put Ryan a heartbeat away from the presidency?
Indeed, in May, Romney went so far as to say working in the private sector for "at least three years" should be a prerequisite to national office. Now, Romney wants to put Ryan one heartbeat from the presidency, despite the fact that Ryan's adult life bears all of the characteristics of a background Romney disdains.
I don't intend this as a "gotcha" moment, exactly, but rather, my larger point is I'm not exactly sure why Romney thinks Ryan should be the vice president, or would even be good at the job.
Everything we know about Romney -- he's a cautious, management-focused executive, who values experience and private-sector success -- suggests Ryan's the last guy he'd want as a governing partner in the White House. Putting aside the radicalism of the Ryan budget plan, at least for a moment, Ryan hasn't run so much as a lemonade stand.
He's a 42-year old, seven-term congressman who's never even held statewide office and has no natural constituency. Ryan voted for every element of the Bush-Cheney agenda -- including votes for the bank bailout, the massive Medicare Part D expansion that he didn't see the need to pay for, and multiple increases to the debt limit.
Ryan's also a very high-profile figure from the least popular Congress since the dawn of modern polling. He is, in other words, a professional politician who has played a key role in making Capitol Hill even more loathed than it's ever been. Ryan, like Romney, also has literally zero background in foreign policy, national security, or international affairs.
What is it about this resume that Romney looks at and says, "Yep, that's my kind of guy"?
The answer is, nothing. Romney was almost certainly pushed into this announcement by a conservative establishment that doesn't trust him or feel excited to rally behind him, and Romney didn't have the standing or intestinal fortitude to push back.
It's a Quayle/Palin kind of decision that reinforces the perception that Romney is not only unsatisfied with the state of the race, but is starting to feel genuine fear about his candidacy.
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It's a career ending mistake for Ryan which makes you wonder why he accepted. He'll be dragged under by the criticism he receives in the next few months and the association with Romney, making him damaged goods in 2016.
The happiest non-Democrats in the world right now are Christie and Rubio!
Like the Abramoff scandal was career-ending for Ralph Reed? There's an extremely well-funded system of "wingnut welfare" that ensures that reliable Republican figures stay employed, connected, and dressed for later turns.
Come December, you can count on Ryan taking a high-profile position with the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, or Chamber of Commerce while getting lots of face time and column inches in the Murdock Media.
By 2014 or at latest 2016, he'll be ready to run for the Senate when an opening appears in a reliably red district.
D.C.- Wisconsin is a purple state, and Senatorial elections are statewide, so winning a Senate seat there wouldn't be easy. If he moved to VA or MD, he would have a similar difficulty.
There are plenty of deep-red States and Senators retire in them, too. Ryan could do a McCain and move to one to take a House seat in a safe district, then go for the Senate when one of the Senators retires. The Party gets advance hints for cases like this so that they can enable career management for promising Party loyalists.
President Obama needs to replace Joe Biden for Hillary Clinton ASAP. He's useless in this campaign!!!
Shucks no Palin? Just another give it all to the rich and shamless lunatic? Heee,hee-they are off(their rocker)and running(like cheap hose).
Sad thing is Ryan has fans. So does Romney. Add the tea party idiots with the racist slime then sprinkle in the religious zealots and who knows this could be the end of America.
When Romney picks someone to the likes of Paul Ryan, then you do know for a fact that the GOP/Republicans are only for the extreme wealthy. But to say you want to increase military spending so America can be great again. What the heck are you talking about there? We don’t need an increase in military spending, the privatization of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and America is great enough. When you have that talk about America being great again for what to have senseless and destructive wars we don’t need? Romney is starting to sound too familiar like a Hitler mentality and we all know where that has lead to extreme hatred, misery, despair, and death. These extremist of hatred who partly do get into Bible Revelation and who mostly vote for these Republicans thinking that it is they who will be taken away before all this destruction starts have another guess coming. Since it is these very people who want all these evil things to happen are indeed evil themselves for even thinking of such terrible and horrific things and wanting these things to happen. The Bible says blessed is the peacemaker, not let’s make this disaster so we can have better days. Those very better days they think they are getting will not occur, since it is themselves that would of caused all this and thus than are the evil out of it all. These people who fall for this type of talk are the ones being deceived and unknowingly will be in the midst of the misery, despair, and death. There would be no escape for these people and in the end would be put down for such evil thoughts. Jesus is about love, compassion, and understanding, not let’s cause such a disaster that we will never recover from and a death of a planet we are suppose to be taking care of. These people are literally in a sense following someone of a Nero type, where he burned Christians to light his streets. Nero accused the Christians of burning Rome, but there is another factor to it. That Nero also knew that these early Christians were experiencing the light and that threatened the Roman Empire so Nero wanted an example made of the Christians trying to show who was in power and control. Nero burned the Christians in ridicule trying to show, if you see the light, then light the Roman streets also.
I'll bet they're lighting fireworks on the roofs of insurance companies nationwide! What a great new cash cow! Another whole segment of the population from which they glean new profits!
Do you like your 401(k)? You're going to love what we'll do to your Social Security!
There is certainly misinformation here. First, under Ryan's plan, no one under 55 is affected by the medicare proposal. Second, why is the voucher edplan any different from the current medicare plus programs? Third, the Ryan plan would allow a choice between traditional medicare and private plans.
There is no plan to change social security, just proposals. But, there is recognition it must change.
The Ryan plan recognises entitlements drive the debt and deficit. You may not agree with it, but have the dems propose their own plan.
BTW, the ACA cuts a minimum $500 billion from Medicare to pay for the plan
Tom,
The only one putting out disinformation is YOU!!! From Ryan's Plan, page 52: "For those workers currently under the age of 55, beginning in 2023, those seniors would be given a choice of private plans competeing alonside the traditional fee-for-service option on a newly created Medicare Exchange......The second-least expensive approved plan or fee-for service Medicare, whichever is least expensive, would establish the benchmark that determines the premium-support amount for the plan chosen by the senior."
That means that whatever plan the senior chose, he would only get the money that the second least expensive plan allowed. Now you know how these "cheap" plans operate, don't you? They keep their premiums "cheap" by "denial of payment". Exactly HOW does that help the senior???? If the senior needs medical care that the "cheap" plan won't pay for, it will come out of the senior's pocket! Exactly HOW does that help the senior?????
From: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/2010/10/28/health-care-reform-does-not-cut-medicare-benefits/
So take your lies elsewhere, we aren't as dumb as you wish!!!!
Please refer to the article from Lanny Davis, former Clinton advisor. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lanny-davis/ryan-wyden-medicare-reform_b_1371081.html. It clearly states seniors will have a choice between traditional medicare and supported private plans.
I personally believe the savings are a myth. With the impending doctor shortage (per the NYT), reduced payments - we've seen how the current doc cuts have gone - we are facing a health care crisis. Between my wife and me, we see 9 doctors. None take medicaid, and only a few will accept new medicare patients. And I live in an area where there are 4 major - one a teaching university - two VA's and a major army hospital.
Tom,
Read this and I can get you more articles like it. They all say that the seniors WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE!!!! Even CBO says that!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/paul-ryans-2011-medicare-plan-a-primer/
There are VERY FEW people who have actually looked at the Ryan-Wyden plan in detail who don't come to that conclusion. For people who are wealthy enough to pay for their own preferred insurances, that isn't a problem. But for most of it, it is going to be a MAJOR problem!!
What you DON'T understand is that the Ryan-Wyden plan will tie payment to the second lowest insurance provider. If you think there are service providers out there NOW who reject Medicare and Medicaid, it is only going to get worse if Ryan gets his way. You really need to read and consider what that plan says CLOSELY!
And given your circumstances which I know from experience are TOUGH and not something anyone would want to go through, it looks like ACA will be of great benefit for you so maybe you should get more familiar with it.
You also need to know that it isn't government or the market place that limits the number of doctors, it is the AMA who has a monopoly on licensing doctors! They have in the past purposely keep a doctor shortage in this country to benefit themselves. They used to claim that there were too many doctors in this country, but finally, this year, they are saying that there is a doctor shortage - so maybe something good will happen from this!
I know your medical costs must be terrible and I sincerely hope they get better for you in the future!!
I was with you until you made the statement that "the AMA has a monopoly on licensing doctors." Doctors are licensed by the individual state governments, usually throught the Health Departments. They also have nothing to do with the doctor shortage. The expense of medical school as well as the malpractice situation has kept many young people from becoming doctors. I know this because my husband has been a doctor since 1969. And, by the way, Medicare is the only insurance we accept.
Any change to Medicare would be a disaster for our patients, many of whom have only Social Security to live on. They have to pay for Part B (on sliding scale), Medigap (secondary insurance), and Part D (prescriptions) none of which is cheap. I know this since between my husband and myself, we have around $600 that comes out of our SS checks each month to pay for this. If Ryan has his way and we go to a voucher system through an insurance company, we would probably pay in excess of $1000 per month, one third of our Social Security.
When will people get it throuh their heads that the Republicans do nothing for the poor or middle class. If you make less than $250K per year, you are a damn fool to vote Republican or else you're delusional
I thought Mitt said Dick Cheney is "the sort of person I would like on the ticket'. So is Paul Ryan sorta like Cheney? Based on Cheney's popularity being below Mitt's, maybe Ryan is, as part of Congress he is less popular than Mitt.
I saw a clip of Cheney last night saying he "worships the ground Paul Ryan walks on." That tells me all I need to know about Paul Ryan.
In the "power behind the figurehead" sense, absolutely.
Yes. I've heard Republican powers-that-be quoted in the last few days as saying Romney will be head of state, and Ryan head of government, similar to the Bush setup. (Though arguably, Cheney was head of both.)
The Romney team understands that they are losing this race. Selecting Paul Ryan as Mitt's running mate literally blows up the entirety of what he had previously based his candidacy on. As Mitt no longer finds it tenable to run on his business record and financial prowess since he refuses to disclose any meaningful information on anything related to them, he had to make this race a battle of ideology and ideas, rather than counting on the status quo to defeat Obama. Romney has just endorsed the most extreme, partisan and openly anti-American budget in the modern history of our nation by picking Paul Ryan. Mitt has conceded the election to Barack Obama. This is his Sarah Palin moment. Game over. Principled Progressive
At least Ryan has an agenda and a political philosophy- and one he has put on paper.
Romney is a Big Picture sort of guy. He likes the idea of being president, but the petty details of the job are immaterial.
Just like Hollywood "stars" who exist on the fringes, doing the drugs, the serial marriages,the red carpet parties 'til dawn. The learning of lines and showing up for work at 5AM, not so much.
More and more I suspect that it's more a matter of Ann wanting to be First Lady.
To D. C. Sessions: I don't think anyone needs to attack Ann Romney. She seems to be a very nice woman. There is enough Republican policy to attack. Please leave Mrs. Romney out of this.
Just had a thought to share.
What If God Sent his son to Earth
Today, off course the bible teaches us that the Earth will be cleans. How would your social life be like? When you think about the socialism and the
structures of being with our father in heaven on earth when earth has been
renewed? Think about it, give it a lot
of thought. Anything about America? Socialism is bad? Government takeovers? Republicans want to loosen the laws
more. Take away from Health Care.? Have you ever gone into the Emergency room
without Insurance? I Sure You Have! They
always look at you different because the first thing they want is to know how
you going to pay. If you read the
healthcare bill. Even if our insurance goes up a little are you willing to let
profit making Insurance company's take away more benefits so that their share
holders keep their Billions? If you're a true Christian don't you want what's
best for all? Or your just a selfish greedy person who doesn't care! Come On! It's not as bad as people foresee it to
be. Ever think about why republicans say
what they want a say? It's all about
power, money, keeping their jobs!
Politicians always say what we want to hear. Even the democrats. The fact is everyone needs to pay their fair
share of taxes. Reason why republicans
want to keep the bush taxes? look it up
yourself! Don't take my word for
it. It requires a lot of research. Find out these corporations that are paying
for super packs to get their way in government.
It's not about the true facts, it's about how money shareholders and
corporations are willing to pay to see their type of commercials go on
television. America doesn't listen to
the facts anymore. Most Americans don't
go through the Internet and look for factual information. Sure we all have lives, we have things to do,
ever busy, then we sit in front of our computers, cable TV, and all we focus on
mostly, not everybody mind you, but the influence of commercialism, TV ads,
politicians TV ads. One commercial about
one president or one candidate. 30 seconds of information which mainly is
false. Ever do a fact check if only
after you hear commercial and the accusations that are pros and cons, and maybe
comments misled representation. That's
all America focuses on TV ads TV commercials.
Sure we'll have jobs we'll have mortgages, apartments, what have
you. Are we that stupid that we can make
one decision on a 30 second commercial?
Even the news and corporations like the Fox, NBC, CNN, and so on and so
forth. What do they do? Even media corporations want their fair share
of the commercial time. Because inside
shareholders are donating tons of money to democrats and republicans alike. 12 people on a board of shareholders don't want
to see the bush taxes cuts go away. So they're willing to donate $1,000,000 and
commercials secretly through super packs, 12 shareholders can influence
millions of people based on one commercial that's basically all the lies, we
hear it every day. ( Different Perspective)
For Americans, one corporation spend millions of dollars on commercials just so
12 people get it their way! It's really an investment for them because
spend two million you can save 10,000,000 in taxes they don't have to pay the
next year. That is if they do get their
way. But Americans watch TV, watch
commercial ads, watch their favorite shows.
Americans are too busy most of them, to look up information and factual
new sources. So we let these big
corporations influence us and we make a lot of stupid decisions. Truth of the matter is what does every
individual in America want to do? If
there was no commercials from corporations, democrats and republicans alike,
and are only influence was the truth. The
Truth! what's better for everyone. Seems
like people don't help each other anymore.
Everyone claims to have their own Religions and do good for the hope of
being in heaven. If God and Jesus
Christ were here today right now we
would all be in socialism help each other out? There wouldn't be any money?,
there wouldn't be any greed, there wouldn't
be the homeless, or people that are
sick. In that world of Jesus Christ we
would all be socially linked together.
Funny how that works. And we're
afraid that government is mandatory getting Health Care for all. We live in an upside down world, with the
truth that is not the truth, lies are true, truths that becomes a lie, or was a
lie in the first place. So what do you
really believe when it comes to our Politician?
Are you willing to go the extra mile and study the facts, not from
representative web sites, But find out
through other sources where the truth might possibly be the real truth. Perhaps pray to God, you'll get the truth in
your heart, or perhaps do some research,
go to media outside of America and see their side of it. Look at information from other perspectives,
then to listen to one stupid 30 second commercial to make your choices in life. After you've done enough research, and look
hard and take the time and really get to know someone, politicians Democratic or
Republican alike. You'll get a whole new
perspective on everything. Stop watching
stupid commercials about Politicians. We
all know commercials are not what they seem to be, food, cars, it's all about a
bunch of hype. When you go shopping for
something at the store, don't you look at the product, read the label, see the
ingredients, and then when you finally the product, you'd know the exact
truth. Hypothetically speaking with Politicians,
ever read their ingredients, ever look deep into their lives, get a feel for
who and what they really are, what they stand for based on their history not
just empty words! What they tried and
failed to do. We're all human we will
make mistakes, apply for job, they will ask you for work history, they will ask
you for references your required to give even credit checks too! Face book,
Profiles Information! Do you think any President or Candidate is exempt!, does
not have to give out their information, work history. Not covered up truth with a whole bunch of
abstract information. When you buy a
car you want to know the manufacture , The quality, the history in the car making, think long and hard
make the right choice! You're Not Just going to buy the hype right? I rest My Case!
You have some excellent points. Two suggestions: brevity and paragraphs (preferably short ones). Both help encourage people to read what you write.
You've given this a lot of thought. I agree. It doesn't feel good to think control over your life is slipping away. Maybe we never truly had control but it was a nice illusion while it lasted. Now we need to figure out how to make things work for everyone again.
He chose Ryan as his running mate most likely because of the Koch brothers telling him to.
They have Grover standing by with his signing pen. Right this way Mitt. That's a good boy.
Letting the WSJ editorial board pick your candidate for Veep is like letting Col. Klink choose wich wire to cut on an unexplored bomb. One thing that should be clear by now is that the skill set that makes you good at looting mediocre corporations is useless in the political sphere.
When I think of a business man, I think of a person who comes up with an idea of a product a person would like to buy then manufactures that product and takes it to the market. I'm not a Romney expert, but I am not aware of any original idea Romney has had that was constructive. As far as I know he has always torn apart what others have built and got profit from doing that. Seems more like a parasite than a business man to me.
Optics...really....For Rachel to say that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were claiming to have served in the military because they held a rally on and in front of naval ships is like saying that Rachel intends on giving birth because she has a vagina.
The man who would be president if Romney is elected and should be unable to serve is personally dedicated to the political values, not of Jefferson. Adams, Madison or Hancock, but of a Russian novelist.  Paul Ryan's source of intellectual force behind his approach to to political governance is the atheist libertarian novelist,  Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, whose anglicized name was  Aynn Rand. Â
She was a playwrite and novelist who worked for a time as the head of the costume department at RKO Studios.  To describe her as a philosopher would be a huge stretch.  She was an avid follower of the libertarian anti-collectivist economist Ludwig von Mises, who once called conservative economist, Milton Freidman a socialist.  At an "Atlas Society" meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It's inspired me so much that it's required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.". What Ryan knows about economics, he learned from Aynn Rand, Ludwig Von Mises with a smattering of Jack Kemp. See http://www.romnification.net
wasn't ayn rand on the dole while she was writing that cute little book of hers about self reliance?
He's Romney's kind of guy because he wants to give the 0.1% an even bigger reduction in taxes.
That's it. That's the only reason, right there.
I was watching the men's soccer medal ceremony (¡Viva Mexico!) and halfway through the awarding of the silvers to a despondent Brazilian team I had a big picture moment and was struck by just how bad Romney is at this running for president thing. I mean the sheer magnitude of the suckitude is awe inspiring.
Romney makes the ongoing trainwreck that was McCain 08 look supremely competent.
Mitt probably believes with some good reason that the attention will focus on Ryan and not himself. Then Mitt can claim the high ground, that the Dems. are attacking a faithful public servant. While the Veep goes after Ryan, POB should keep the focus on Mitt's finances. He stiil has the El Salvador death squad people investing in Bain. The Huffington Post did a good story a couple of days ago. These were the same wealthy land barons Reagan propped up.
Ryan is just the Veep. The focus and spot light needs to remain on the man who wants to occupy the Oval Office.
Ryan is the mind, Romney the Pen...we just need to deny the Pen his turn, and Ryan keeps his day job screwing America from Congress.
I want to know if Paul Ryan got to see Romney's tax returns.
I want to know if Romney got to see Paul Ryan's.
Romney was almost certainly pushed into this announcement by a conservative establishment that doesn't trust him or feel excited to rally behind him, and Romney didn't have the standing or intestinal fortitude to push back.
Willard the Wanker was crying yesterday that everybody was being mean to him, going after his cannibal capitalism at Bain, his imperial wife, his gubernatorial failure, his toxic taxes, and he begged the President to take all the "distractions" off the table and discuss the "issues."
Be careful what you ask for Willard, you're about to get your wish.
I agree, TC. Ryan may be "his kind of guy," but it probably didn't matter. This pick was dictated by the base.
Ryan is there to placate them. Just like McCain was saddled with Sarah four years ago. This is the same type of pick, and it may well produce the same results.
R & R have alot in common, greed:
Romney doesn't look at Ryan's résumé and say, "Yep, that's my kind of guy."
He looks at Ryan's photograph and says, "Yep, that's my kind of guy."
Yeah, a nice little bromance going on there.
I recall Pres. Obama schooling Ryan at the GOP Retreat in 2010 as to why Ryan's scheme to voucher-ize Medicare does not work - mainly because the value of his plan's voucher is capped, thereby ending guaranteed Medicare and forcing seniors to pay high costs out of pocket. Ryan, to much applause from the Retreat audience, then parried with, "Well, Mr. President, why can't we offer the public the same kind of insurance that we have?" ("We" meaning congressional representatives.) When the President agreed, and Democrats included it in the ACA legislation, what did Ryan do? Why, he and all those in the Republican audience who applauded the suggestion then voted against it of course! And villified it as "a government take-over of healthcare." We have three more months of this type of 24/7 weaselry from Ryan. Oh, goody.
I would not put it "Oh, goody" but more like:
Gob-smacking, rip-snorting, Oh Please Dear GOD NO!!!!!
Itemizing the inconsistency of Mitt Romney, as it pertains to his choice of Paul Ryan for VP, who has never held statewide office, who has never been in business, let alone run a business, is not creating a 'gotcha' question or moment. It simply illustrates the facts as they exist. As I heard a commentator say of Fox this morning [paraphrasing] "This is a turnaround moment for Romney, and if there was ever a person who could turnaround, it's Mitt Romney". And I thought "Yep, he's turned around more than the well-oiled weather vane that Jon Huntsman said he was." The choice of Ryan is merely further proof.
As they say, "The choice is clear".
To me, it looks like:
FREEDOM FOR ALL --- or --- FREE-FOR-ALL
Wishing us ALL, the best.
How about "All for Some and None for All!"
With the appointment of Ryan, it brings vividly to mind, Germany in the late twenties and early thirties, where the control of politics, business, etc., will be the new FOURTH REICH.
I'm sure your writers can expound upon this, as this is potentially a very dangerous situation. I hope you agree, Miss Rachel Maddow, and give them hell.
I can't decide, in this theme, which of these fools would be comparable to Putzi Hafstaengl, maybe "Bachmann," "Trump," etc.
I hope you agree and can make the most of this. Thank you.
Day before yesterday my wife and I were fortunate enough to be able to attend President Obama's rally in Pueblo, Colorado. Great event! Driving away, we happend to pass a group of Anti-Obama folks. One sign stated: GOD OR OBAMA. Interesting. It did bring to mind, as well, something that rang a bell related to German history. Hate to say it, but Nazi Germans were mostly very good Christians. They even took it to a new level of "pay back" for those "Christ Killers", the Jews. Irrational - Shrill - Denial - God's on OUR side, etc. does sound kind of familiar ...
I watched the announcement with the sound off. Could not bear to listen to the voices. I was struck by the fact that Ryan showed up with no tie and it appeared he had not shaved before boarding the Navy ship for his big moment. Is this what we can look forward to from our Professional Politicians? Better that the announcement was made in front of a replica of the Titanic.
No, a battleship is just fine: a thoroughly-obsolete piece of enormously-expensive weaponry that never lived up to its potential (read the history of battleships), just the kind of thing Republicans looooooooove!
The whole thing reminded me of Bush on the big ship & "Mission Accomplished". Needless to say a chilling went up my spine.
Paul Ryan is, above all, a proponent of the soda-straw economy... the 1% sucking more and more money out of the 99% pot and hiding it away, unavailable for the economy to churn into healthy economic activity. Instead, it just grows where it is, by way of loopholes and financial transaction upon financial transaction.
Even the decimation of medicare and social security are a part of this. Adding insurance companies and big banks into the equation only sucks more money up into that 1% compartment.
What person in their right mind would want their health care to be at the mercy of an insurance company for a nano-second longer than it must be? The answer: the insurance companies, of course, who see a whole new barrel of profit there for the taking.
Recently, Romney was talking not about picking a guy with business credentials but someone with a vision. Ryan certainly has it, even if it's second-hand (coming from Rand), and even though it requires very thick corrective lenses.
The right has put in 4 hard years of government obstruction, corporate profit hoarding, national media corruption, withholding hiring, propaganda and lie campaigns, voter suppression, anonymous money donors, keeping the fire stocked under conservative fear and anger, cheating in every way humanly possible to restock government with their people, and bring back their brand of "leadership" that works for, by, and with just themselves.
The rest of us Americas won't get the perks, we'll get the shaft.
Obama tried to be bi-partisan until that word made me wanna puke. We've gotten none of that from the right. They deal with this nation like other dictatorial forms of power do, weeding out the ones they don't like, and providing the way to more wealth and unearned privilege for those they deem acceptable. We've seen all the signs, there is no reason to expect the outcome to be something new from olden times (aka 4 years ago)
This nation's state is not Obama's fault, it's taken since the 80's for the right to ramp up the media and the rhetoric to this level today. They've deceived and defrauded a lot of decent people to get this far, and there is no indication that they'll stop their war on a free America whether Obama is in office or not.
"Mr. Romney sounded a theme for the fall campaign: 'It's time to transform America, and the two of us are both Transformers!'"
(From the Borowitz Report)
LOL! Yea, it makes me wonder if you "twist their arm" what they will turn into next!!!
Romney-Ryan are transformative alright. The plan is to transform a democracy where everyone is treated equally (still an ideal but we're working on it) into a corporate feudal system where most are unequal subjects.