If they wanted a young pretty Conservative they could have picked Ryan

[undeterred]

and he wouldn't have been controversial. I think we dodged a bullet here. 10 years as a Congressman- nobody would have called him inexperienced. While he's Catholic and not a fundamentalist, he's solidly anti-choice, pro-gun, and in the "right place" on all the fiscal issues. He's got a nice, non-controversial family. And nobody would say "Can you imagine him being president?" They can easily imagine it. He would have helped McCain a lot more than Palin.



And there's no nude pictures out there to worry about.

[mojowork_n]

1. Too Dorky/Smart

It's true:

Ryan does speak in complete sentences.
Ryan has put out his own comprehensive plan to revive the economy.
Ryan's almost a policy "wonk" when it comes to Republicans willing to speak out on The Issues.

...But what makes you think any of that would make him an attractive candidate to the Republican Base?

I'm afraid you've "outed," yourself, undeterred.

Had you made such a thoughtful recommendation on any, actual, WingNut blog, some Bushevik AgitProp Commissar would have hauled you off, by now, to the contemporary Republican equivalent of Remedial Thought-Police Camp, for Corrective Re-education, And Brain Sanitation.

(C.R.A.B.S., for short.)

You would have emerged shortly afterward, shaking your first and yelling, "Hey, You kids, get off my lawn," with the rest of the True Believers.

This footnote link provides the definitive analysis of what constitutes a Republican True Believer, if you ask me:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19590

...This is an actual Repub. Veep predictor page, in which Sarah Barracuda placed 6th, and then 3rd, in the final iteration of the "numbers," before the RNC:

http://www.bettorsworld.com/2008/republican-vice-president-odds.htm

Ryan's name is nowhere to be found...

[undeterred]

5. I'm not sure who it is that's picking the Republican VP

Robert Novak suggested Ryan for VP on MTP in February.

Ryan's been talked up on a lot of the Wisconsin blogs- he's not well known outside of WI. He's very compatible with McCain and Bush.

[mojowork_n]

7. He was certainly talked up

in the Wall Street Journal, with his economic plan. He got a lot of attention for wanting to 'cut back the size of government and reduce government spending.'

Because that's what Republicans are traditionally *supposed* to do, but can't anymore. They're like their relapsed commander-in-chief, with the bottle, when it comes borrowing on the next generation's dime.

But these guys just aren't talking about the economy, at this convention. "Nobody said a word about it," the talking head said yesterday, on CNN or MSNBC. I had no reason to doubt him.

[PeaceNikki]

2. He's missing a vagina.

I think he really thinks he can appeal to the women of this country who were excited about Clinton.

[undeterred]

3. The Democratic female candidates in the First District tell me

they often hear "But he's sooo good looking" :puke:

[PeaceNikki]

4. Ugliness is within.

:puke:

[mojowork_n]

6. ...Ugliness is Within...

Yes, it can be pretty difficult to catch. You have to really pay attention, and listen carefully for the slip-up, or catch that glimpse of curtain falling, when they give the game -- and themselves -- away.

...And then there's John Bolton.

He's the one who looks like Winford Brimley's truculent nephew, the former recess-appointment U.N. ambassador. He was once caught on tape on The Daily Show giving Jon a pompous lesson in history -- until the next day Doris Kearns Goodwin came on the show -- with him, and with Jon -- and gave the straight scoop.

She bent him over her knee, rhetorically speaking.

He was on N.P.R., today, saying that 'no one likes war.... And 99.4% of the time -- 99.4 % of the time, like Ivory Soap, we're so pure -- the Bush administration has tried to avoid war.'

'...But when you have to defend vital interests and there's no alternative but confrontation, you can't have someone in there like the democrats, who are for negotiation and diplomacy-only, 100% of the time.'

...Puh-leeze, the lies are supposed to be a little less vacuous and transparent. You can't get away with insisting that anything happens 100% of the time, not even day following night. (Some day that old sun's going to go nova.) Let alone any behavior in politics.

He sounded so cheerful and glib, but when stuff like that comes out, the rustle of leathery bat wings, from the back of his soul, becomes an audible crackle.

[madrchsod]

8. these are the guys the republicans are waiting for

in 8-12 more years they`ll be ready to move up to the big show...

[Dying Eagle]

9. i agree

I could see Ryan going for Feingold in 2010

[dembotoz]

10. but how does he look in a dress.