Romney/Ryan ticket

[baldrick]

What's the CHVC verdict? Will this alienate the moderate and undecided middle ground voters? We know it will fire up the deep GOP base (the moron wing), but how do you think it will be received by the middle? I know lots of Democrats and Lefties are very happy, but I wonder how the youth vote will react, too, since they certainly didn't show up for the midterm election in 2010. Will this bring them back out?

[jesus]

Not a clue...

[will]

There's no wonder that tax dodging Romney likes Ryan's ideas.

www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/mitt-romney-would-pay-082-percent-in-taxes-under-paul-ryans-plan/261027/

If the Obama campaign defines Ryan as the economic wingnut that he demonstrably is, then Ryan will be a net negative to Romney. If not, then Ryan will be a net positive, but I wouldn't expect his presence on the ticket to make much difference either way.

And as usual, Paul Krugman nails it:

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/romneyryan-the-real-target/

[kitkat]

yeh ryan like romney have plans that have three things in common: 1)NO specifics to support highly touted 2)massive budget cuts and (highly *un*-touted) 3)massive spending increases.

O should be able to utterly destroy these guys' policies (and their integrity) in the debates. In the debates because in the meantime the mass media will (as krugman points out) continue to promote their 'serious conservative/serious liberal' fantasy world.

we'll see.

[baldrick]

Ryan's cognitive disconnect is classic deep conservative. He is only "serious" in his heartlessness, single-minded ideolgical drive, and ability to separate things that are otherwise totally connected. Anyone who actually works for a living (i.e. paid a wage, rather than gambling or just watching interest/dividends roll in) and earns less than $200k per year, and votes for R/R has "serious" intellect deficiencies, IMO.

[will]

His lightweight intellect is being exposed now. There was a third page article in the Seattle Times yesterday ripping him to shreds. Now this:

www.nydailynews.com/opinion/paul-ryan-imaginary-expertise-article-1.1137112

Paul Ryan is nothing more than a really committed, unthinking, Ayn-Rand-o-Bot. I find it difficult to understand how anybody with an IQ over room temperature has any respect for Ayn Rand's piss poor writing and even lousier logic and philosophy, but what the heck - I'm part of the reality based community.

[jesus]

These analyses matter not a wit to 99% of people are actually going to vote. Their minds are already made up.

[kitkat]

yup. simple voting flow chart: Happy= Incumbent; Pissed off= challenger. ambivalant? Coin toss. real simple equation....