We've stayed away from the political commentary lately partly because it's lame, partly because we're not sure what perspective we are really adding and mostly because we are already burned out by yet another 'most important election' of my our lifetime
By with that said when I turned on NBC yesterday morning hoping to catch some of the Olympic archery I instead got some Mitt Romney rally where he announced Paul D Ryan as his running mate ensuring the ticket locks up the cranky white guy vote. I am not sure how bold the move is on policy but it sure as hell wasn't bold when it came to trying to appeal to a broader demographic. He could have gone with Marco 'don't call me Ricky' Rubio that weird looking Indian Mr Rogers or that one HP broad who gets mentioned during every search kind of like Denny Green.
But never before have two whiter people stood on one stage together and my buddy Bump kept commenting about a very uncomfortable looking black couple sitting behind the stage and observed that they probably meant to go to the Obama rally but made a wrong turn.
But really this was a bold move, sort of, because the one thing Ryan has done is lay out an economic plan which four years into Obama we are still waiting for. The two problem with Ryan's plan is that they say it would gut Medicaid and welfare which obviously won't help the ticket in the swing state of Florida and because he (like anybody else Mitt would have chosen by the way) will make the electorate realize how lifeless the top of the ticket really is
Then again maybe he uses his
middle initial to try to sway the old people back
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