In my first post on Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan to be his running mate, I quoted Jonah Goldberg who insisted that the “vice presidential debate will be awesome”:
If I had to predict right now, Ryan won’t so much trounce Biden as Biden will trounce himself. All of the talk about how Ryan is smarter and more knowledgeable than Biden will get deep in Joe’s head. Biden’s insecurities will spill out on the stage like overturned chum bucket.
It seems that the talk of the Wisconsin Republican’s intelligence has already gotten deep in Mr. Biden’s head. We don’t have to wait for the debate. In the week since Mr. Romney introduced Ryan as his running mate, the vice president has had a very bad week, making even more gaffes than is his wont. As Jim Treacher reports:
On Tuesday, ol’ Sheriff Joe told a majority African-American audience that the Republicans are “gonna put y’all back in chains.”
He also said some other dumb stuff, like promising that together, they could win North Carolina again… as he stood there in Virginia. And hollering that General Motors is going to lead the world in auto production in the 20th Century.
Perhaps the Ryan selection, to borrow Jonah’s expression caused “Biden’s insecurities” to “spill out on the stage like overturned chum bucket.”
So how do you think Slow Joe got to be a Senator? What’s his talent? (I must agree that he’s not at all bright. And I allow that he might be, as some have related, a very nice guy, on a person-to-person level. Which is not enough.)
The fact that Joe Biden is gaffe prone in no way mitigates the fact that people these days will vote for someone simply because he or she is “one of them”. In this country we used to look to our leaders as examples how we should behave. In modern times too many people don’t care enough to realize that what they allow one side to do the other side can use it to justify their own actions. For example: the mandate that was ruled a tax can be used to force others to buy other products “for their own good.”
Biden is just another example of a relatively nice guy getting elected because of his political beliefs. If they thought about it, thought about how gaffe prone he is, then they might not have voted for him. It’s the “stick with what you are familiar with” behavior.
Who cares if Ryan is in Biden’s head…who cares about Biden? Ryan is in Obama’s head.
Joe is probably pretty rattled by now, particularly after his “chains” comment. At worst he was making a calculated effort to inject race and at best he’s completely misrepresenting who is actually trying to put people in chains. Who was it that spent $1 trillion from the china for a phony stimulus? Who was it that committed Americans to another costly social welfare program in Obamacare? The American people are having their futures taken from them be the federal government, and Obama has done more than his fair share of shackling and I think conservatives have the upper hand on this argument Joe makes no matter which way he meant it.
Yes Jimmy. If nothing else, the Democrat deficits/debt are putting us all in the “chains” of… future taxes. (Or future money-printing; that being an indirect tax.)
One thing about being inside Biden’s head…There’s plenty of empty space. He is living proof that you don’t have to have an I.Q. greater than your shoe size to succeed in politics.
Why is it that no one points out that it was the Democrats that put blacks in chains, and the Republicans that freed them?
@Lori Heine, true that! No doubt that this is the most frightingly dumbest man to BE vice-president in my lifetime. Dan Quyale got a huge bum rap because for one, Team Bush 41 did not do a good prep job for him. He came out and LOOKED to young to be a senator for crying out loud. Paul Ryan looks and acts presidential.
@BigJ, also spot on. We all know that Ryan cleaned his clock in that Obamacare meeting in which Ryan LECTURED the Dear Leader, President Obama.
@Southern Man, also very accurate. In fact, in today’s world the Republican party stands for freedom for all and the Democrats stand for dependency or bust.
Meanwhile, say Democrat bootlickers, “Paul Ryan sponsors bill that would allow rapists to force their victims not to abort if they got pregnant.”
Unicorn, or grain of truth among the filthy lies?
Debate? Debacle!
“Why is it that no one points out that it was the Democrats that put blacks in chains, and the Republicans that freed them?”
Lots of people do. Unfortunately a lot of the time they’re idiots.
Why is it no Republicans ever seems to remember that having the government intervene with private businesses is not tenable with contemporary conservative economic ideology? Freeing slaves and instituting an amendment to the constitution banning slavery were liberal policies. This website is the home of the gay conservative, not the gay Republican. You don’t get to take credit for liberal policies that were put in place by a progressive Republican 150 years ago.
Did you also forget that Eisenhower warned against the growth of the military industrial complex? Maybe you should focus more on what the Presidents did and how those actions compare to the current political environment instead of which party the Presidents were in. Especially when you’re talking about events that occurred over a century ago.
“Why is it no Republicans ever seems to remember that having the government intervene with private businesses is not tenable with contemporary conservative economic ideology?”
Many of them seem to remember it only when someone like Obama is in office. As soon as another Republican is back in there, the GOP will go right back to interfering with free enterprise, as well as to intervening in every aspect of individuals’ lives.
Which will keep the government just as oversized, powerful and intrusive as it is now. Which will set the stage for another Obama (only perhaps even worse). And on and on and on…
A tenet of capitalism is that people’s natural rights are to be protected. Slavery is incompatible with capitalism for that reason. I actually think you are right about the parties; what party someone is a member of doesn’t mean much. Unfortunately, the Democrats haven’t changed as much as they claim, because they still effectively control most black people by keeping them dependent on entitlements, by slurring and marginalizing any black person that dares to vote for a Republican or be a conservative, and with corrupt political machines in cities that prevent any sort of change.
Yes, because it’s Republicans who are shrieking “you didn’t build that” to business owners, ordering loans restructured to benefit their cronies, and insisting that we need to nationalize more industries.
In short, Another_Jeremy, just like taxes, violent rhetoric, and everything else you’ve come onto this website to complain about, you and your fellow liberals have ZERO intent of following the standards you demand be imposed on others.
Which makes you a hypocrite and a bigot.