Markos Moulitsas on Twitter re Ryan pick: the senior vote up for grabs!

[applegrove]

It's really a bold move by the Romney campaign to put the senior vote up for grabs!

[applegrove]

1. So true. Ryan is the one who wants to get rid of medicare isn't he? Wants to give vouchers.

Good luck with that.

[notadmblnd]

2. Yup and all the Obama campaign has to do is remind them of his plan to end SS and Medicare

When George bush adopted his policy and began talking about it publicly, his poll numbers took a dive and the republics lost 30 seats in the House.

[applegrove]

3. They will play the young off the old and say that we cannot afford not to have vouchers on medicare.

Then they will talk pensions. And play the young off the old again. That is the coalition they hope to build.... getting the young to vote GOP that way.

[progressivebydesign]

5. young people, unless they're working on Wall Street or Mormon, do not like Romney.

And they're smart enough to know that the VP means jack shit.. unless your candidate is in his 70s.

[notadmblnd]

7. I disagree. They may try, but it's not going to work.

IIRC, the republicans plan to shift responsibility for indigent parents onto their children. 'll have to research it, but I'm sure that is part of the plan. So just telling these kids that they will become responsible for their parents care and medical bills that the Ryan budget won't cover, will make them do a double take.

[Hippo_Tron]

9. That'll go about as well as the Republican efforts to appeal to black voters...

[progressivebydesign]

4. Bold = stupid, in Romney's world. Another Palin disaster.

They could have picked someone like Pawlenty or Portman and the seniors would be like.. "oh, he seems like a nice man." But Ryan is a Norquist/Koch wannabe, who is reviled by seniors already. But Romney 1) has to worship at the altar of Norquist. 2) pay back the investment of 100s of millions of campaign donations by Koch Bros/Sheldon A 3) wants to do something BOLD!

But he's an idiot in many ways. They HAVE the stupid effing tea party, anti tax nuts, vote. They HAD the senior vote.. they needed everyone else. So what do they do?? They choose a guy that makes the tea baggers happy, the libertarian wackadoodles happy, and pisses off the seniors.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG??? hahaha. It's as if Sarah Palin and Eddie Munster had a child together, and was adopted by the Koch Brothers.

[flamingdem]

6. No one else wants to run with Romney, plus it's a hail Mary for the youth vote n/t

[David__77]

8. Wowza.... so they reallly are throwing the election?

This has zero potential to grow the Republican Party. How boring... truly.

[Rowdyboy]

10. Its totally baffling in the reality based universe...Ryans not stupid like Palin but he's a horrible

match for Romney. Why on earth would he choose to tie himself to the Rethug House and Ryans budget even more closely than he already is. They're about as popular as venereal disease.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

11. It was clear Romney couldn't win. Ryan was forced on him to shore up the base. Playing defense. nt

[Rowdyboy]

12. Somehow I don't see Ryan helping with the elderly or the young or anywhere but the base

who would vote for Rmoney regardless becaue they hate Obama. I don't think its a smart move for him. Duh.....