[one minor pasty example here]
Two Pasty White Guys
From The Tentacle / August 13th 2012
Steven R. Berryman
Just when the GOP frontrunner’s head-fake took us to Condi Rice and Chris Christie for vice presidential candidate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan got the well-timed nod from Mitt Romney.
New
Jersey Governor Christie had that problem with teachers and unions;
literally too much gravitas. Former Secretary of State Rice was tagged
as a political NeoCon and for her abortion positions.
Of course, public unions and former Bushies had already made up their voting conscience for 2012 without this announcement!
The
brilliant tactical move of picking Representative Ryan will confound a
choice of vice president by President Barack Obama. Joe Biden, the
“BrightSmile Veep,” could never carry a flag in defense of the current
economic record, had there even been one. He will now have to be
replaced in a reactive move to attempt to counter the
financial-budgetary prowess of Congressman Ryan.
Could you just imagine a debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan?
Look
for intense consideration of a female candidate to replace Mr. Biden by
the White House vetting team. With the help of N.O.W, locking in the
women’s vote will now certainly be a lynchpin of the Democrat campaign.
The target demographic will be angry women and entitlement blacks.
Black
voters have been utterly reliable at 95%, so the female vote is the
wild card. That this is the strategy of the donkey-party is a dead lock
now; the Republicans will be running the platform of “Two Pasty White
Guys.” The optics don’t lie!
Coasting
Tea Party and Independent types will now have some basis of supporting
the sometimes-drifting Mitt Romney. Congressman Ryan can’t bring new
diversity to the ticket, but his record of supporting “a smaller and
less intrusive government” are unassailable, and go back to his position
as youthful staffer for former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp.
Compare
this choice with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by John McCain in 2008. She
proved a pretty good distraction from the boring senator from Arizona;
her attractiveness distracting from any fair evaluation of intellect or
position. Congressman Ryan, with experience as chairman of the House
Budget Committee and on bipartisan panels, will force a review of the
president’s record of economic missteps and disappointment, while
establishing his own bona fides.
There are potential negatives in the selection of Mr. Ryan, as well as opportunities for late night comics: An Associated Press
wire service story that a “local” newspaper chose to reprint on page
A-1 Sunday reported that an early job for the congressman was in sales
with Oscar Mayer, and that part of it included driving the fabled – if
obscene – “weinermobile,” presumably for promotional reasons. This, of
course, will compare favorably with a former Democratic congressman
named Weiner, who was outted for actually being obscene!
But,
back to that racial component of having two bookend-looking GOP
candidates for the nation’s highest executive offices. When Ryan’s
resume is fairly evaluated, one can get past that “two pasty white guys”
problem with relative ease. The nation can now look forward to an
issue-driven election season.
Or can it?
Certainly
the mainstream media will now begin the politics of deconstructing Paul
Ryan in every conceivable way. They will discuss – ad nauseum – anything but
his qualifications for the “one heartbeat away” slot. Mr. Congressman,
have you ever beaten your wife? Mr. Congressman, tell us about your tax
returns, etc…
In
no way will this resemble the love fest our media-elites had with then
Illinois Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, who had some pretty interesting
starting points for fair evaluation! Yes, even boxer Cassius Clay and
basketball superstar Lew Alcindor had an agenda as reason for changing
their names…
And
don’t forget to remind the audience that the biographical novel “Dreams
of My Father” turned out to be a convenient and wistful fabrication at best.
I,
for one, now have a thrill running up my right leg with the selection
of the second pasty white guy. The impact may actually force the
election discussion onto issues of substance, if the people insist upon
it…
…and don’t tolerate distractions!
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