Time magazine’s Michael Crowley, from the new issue:
Paul Ryan in Time magazine.
In naming Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate on August 11, Romney chose someone as deep as Palin was shallow, a studious wonk known for his mastery of that most substantive of all issues: the federal budget.
For Crowley, this is actually toning down the Ryan praise. Just last year, he co-wrote a piece for Time that went like this:
Just 41 years old, with jet black hair and a touch of Eagle Scout to him, the House Budget Committee chairman unveiled an ambitious package of huge budget cuts designed to dig the country out of its crippling debt crisis. For Ryan, reining in spending is nothing less than an act of patriotic valor.
Carl Sagan (Michael Okoniewski)
That article also said Ryan had “an almost unsettling fluency in the fine print of massive budget documents.” So you can see that Crowley’s enthusiasm for Ryan has cooled.
Oh wait…. Keep reading the new piece:
Ryan is to budget math what Carl Sagan was to the science of the cosmos.
Never mind.
Sad to see such a vicious attack on Sagan when he’s no longer around to defend himself.
And here I thought “the most substantive of all issues” might be something like …
Justice?
And if Ryan’s as deep as Palin is shallow
Maybe we might want to re-check our depth plumbs for her.
Whaddaya think?
The original source of the opinion that Paul Ryan is a wonk seems to have been … Paul Ryan. He has a little trick where he says “I don’t want to get too wonky on this, but …” and then he rattles off a bunch of bullshit. Then the media says, “Ooh, how wonky. I’ll pretend to understand what that meant, so I’ll look wonky too!”. So they present Ryan’s pre-determined conclusions as if they’re meaningful and fully backed by wonky theories that are beyond the ken of mortal peasants.
If I was a con artist, I’d probably be impressed instead of contemptuous.
I still say they need a spell check, not a fact check; that “Wonker” should be spelled with an “a” not an “o”. Then I would agree with him when he says ‘I don’t want to be a wanker’; and he really doesn’t, but he is.
And if Ryan’s as deep as Palin is shallow…
We had a saying in the Navy, “you are lower than whale turds and those are on the bottom of the ocean”. It meant you about as likable as a turd in swimming pool. Not a complement.
With that kind of analogy (Palin is as a shallow as a microscope slide dish) he would thus be somewhere under the the ocean and so “lower than whale turds”. That about sums it up. He has stabbed the seniors, trotted out the ‘smiling victims head as they hang em on the gates. I would say he thinks of woman only in that off hand way you look at a sandwich or a hound dog, but I am unsure if he is that favorable inclined now that he is Pal’n around with Akins. That is one scary dude.
Put it all together and you have call this one a turd sandwich – Romeny and Ryan. Someone used posted “R&R” and I suspect they meant “Rest and Relaxation”, only the military calls it “Rape and Riot” and that is more along the line of their party.
Ryan: Very deep on the surface.
Anybody who’s paid the least bit of attention to Ryan over the last couple of years has to know the guy’s an imbecile. The Beltway press loves him, and the Nincompoop loves them back. The question is, does Ryan know he’s a fraud, or does he actually think he’s got something?
Ryan= disingenuous, slimy, hyperbolic, and a solidly true GOP compulsive and chronic liar. And, of course, the lies about his “budget” will only do what Mitt Romney wants to do—reward the Fat Cats (sorry kitty…), destroy Medicare, wreak further havoc on our once vaulted educational system, and take us back to the 50’s and 60’s in terms of health care and race relations. Wake up America!
Back to the 50’s. Take away all the social progress made in the last 60 years! The GOP are dangerous!
To FAIR staff
WHAT ABOUT JOE BIDEN?All this vetting of Ryan ,and not one word comparing and contrasting his opposite?
ToFair staff
last week you had a story about Ryan being mistaken about a plant closing and placing it on Obamas doorstep.It seems the fact checkers (both right and left)have agreed Ryan was correct in his statement.
Aaah, the ‘tards are so pleasantly terrified of Ryan!