Ryan's The One

Paul Ryan for Romney's VP. I would have been excited to see Usain Bolt run for VP but the distance might not be right for him.

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[Frau Steingehirn]

Ryan's the man!

[MarkO]

Wait, wasn't that Nixon's slogan?

[peter]

I have been upbeat all day on this news. What a great choice. What if all of President Romney's nominations are this good?

[narciso]

It's like that scene in Scanners, all day on the nutroots, in the LUN

[Jim Eagle]

How soon before we have an Obama for POTUS ad that features the Olympians? Counting 1...2....3

You know he is going to do it - nothing is beyond The SBOTUS.

[scroll down for definition]

Slime Ball of The United States

[hrtshpdbox]

What if all of President Romney's nominations are this good?
If they are, then what's left of the Dems in the Senate will fight them tooth and nail.

[Rick Ballard]

"What if all of President Romney's nominations are this good?"

It would be no surprise whatsoever. He's definitely an A who has no problem hiring other A types. BOzo has never been more than a low B and wants nothing to do with anyone holding A status. Look at SloJo in comparison to Ryan as an example. It took a C hire to elevate B for BOzo.

[windansea]

for the single ladies, a tough choice between free birth control and this

[hit and run]

Please tell me when anyone hears from Biden on his enthusiasm to debate Ryan on the issues.

The Naval Observatory has gone dark.

[Clarice]

hit, How'd you like to be the briefer for that spot?

[Jim Eagle]

Hit,

I thought that you posted that Uncle Joe has already called Ryan and said he was looking forward to their debate - you know the one hosted by Debby Wasserman Shultz:)

[Rick Ballard]

C'mon, MarkO - Nixon's the one! [on poster carried by pregnant girl]. Don't sully Dick Tuck's memory.

[Frau Steingehirn]

Close, MarkO -

[Ignatz]

Ryan's the man, Nixon's the one...anything beats 'Are you in'?

[Frau Steingehirn]

Iggy, did you check out the Russian beauty I shared just for you on the last (Cecil B. DeMillean) thread?

[DrJ]

Iggy, doesn't "Are you in?" lead to Nixon being the one (see Ballard, above)?

[Danube of Thought]

Who knew there was a Hit & Run blog? LUN

[windansea]

a clear choice for America

or

[hit and run]

JiB:
I thought that you posted that Uncle Joe has already called Ryan and said he was looking forward to their debate

*I* posted that he called him. I said nothing of the content of the call.

[Comanche Voter]

Unless they have Andrea Mitchell as a moderator for the Veep Debate, Slow Joe is toast. On the other hand, if they do have Andrea, she'll walk over to Joe, give him a big sloppy wet kiss and say "You da man Joe". Then she'll tell Ryan to shut up and declare the debate closed.

Only way that I see Slow Joe having a chance in the debate.

[hit and run]

DoT:
Who knew there was a Hit & Run blog?

Known about them for maybe five or more years now. When I first encountered the Reason blog, I thought about changing my name. Eh, whatevs. Chose my name before knowing they existed. They are much, much bigger than I am (and I contain multitudes).

[Danube of Thought]

Looks like Fareed struck back on May 17 as well:

"Just before the Cultural Revolution, Beijing published a list of the 26 top officials in China. Two years later, only 13 remained in office, the others having been purged." - "Bo Xilai And The Return Of Politics." Time, 5/14/2012

"Just before the Cultural Revolution began, Peking had published an official list of the 26 top men in China. Today, only 13 remain in office, the rest having been purged and ousted from responsibility..." - "Price of Revolution," Time, 5/17/1968

[Ignatz]

--Iggy, did you check out the Russian beauty I shared just for you on the last (Cecil B. DeMillean) thread?--

Yes I did Frau. Even posted a smart ass reply. She is quite cute, smart assery aside.

[hit and run]

I take it, without actual confirmation, that this post means TM is safe from whatever storms were brewing in CT.

[Ignatz]

--Iggy, doesn't "Are you in?" lead to Nixon being the one (see Ballard, above)?--

You mean Nixon is Barry's dad?
That explains so much and yet opens so many new areas of inquiry.

[AliceH]

It's possible someone already posted this on the last thread, but I'll (re)post Ace's take on it here regardless:

Concerned New Yorker is Concerned:

For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience. Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.

But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.

Ace's rebuttal: http://youtu.be/iYVO5bUFww0

[DrJ]

You mean Nixon is Barry's dad?

You didn't hear that from me. :)

[Thomas Collins]

No wonder Obama doesn't want his original birth certificate to see the light of day!

[MarkO]

I really didn't mean that Nixon's slogan was "Ryan's The One." But I do recall the pregant woman's shirt.

Shep and Bob. JFC.

[Ignatz]

I'm trying to get my head around Alice's link.
Let's see, CEO is bad and middle/working class jobs are now nothing too, which means the only thing that qualifies one for the presidency to the New Yorker smart set is never having held down a private sector job at all?
He's 42 years old and has apparently ascended to the Chairman of the Budget Committee by magic having done almost nothing in the last 20 years. Do they think his name is Barack?
BTW they neglected to mention his stint at Oscar Meyer and driving the Weinermobile, which alone should qualify one for high office. I'm looking forward to seeing both Barry and SloJo tossed under it.
I wonder if Barry drove the Dachshundmobile in Indonesia.

[Ralph L]

I'm sure Obama is relieved that the Republicans now can't talk about his precious ears.

[DrJ]

Iggy,

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

You know this of course.

[Ignatz]

BTW it's always a good day when you buy three guns.
I might even let WeeDavey play with one, provided it is loaded with a round in the chamber and the safety off, since I'm an irresponsible Republican who let's infants and their addlepated and inebriated adult equivalents do so routinely.

[Thomas Collins]

Ryan is too smart, and can speak in the vocabulary of the oligarchs while shredding their dearly held beliefs. Thus, the New Yorker can't even think about playing the dumb card. The inexperience card is simply an attempt to develop a trust cue description of Ryan to downgrade him among coastal pseudo-elites.

[Ignatz]

--Iggy,

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.--

Don't let the cats read that Doc, or you may find the glue factory is closer than you thought.

[Uncle BigBad]

An interesting presidential preference quiz.

[hit and run]

My appeal last weekend to always cite the person/post one is referring to when commenting here has gone largely ignored (Chubby really gave a go at it, though!).

But hell if that will stop me from my newest appeal!

Extended quotes of others' words should be blockquoted.

Not italicized and not bolded. I italicize the quotes of others to whom I am responding - but that is almost always a sentence or two.

The hit and run style guide is quite detailed, this item can be found in chapter 2, page 4, paragraph xii.

Reading italicized and/or bolded type is just more difficult. Maybe that's just me and my rapidly aging and degrading eyesight. I now am reduced to wearing reading glasses on the computer - but for whatever reason, I resist wearing them as much as possible. My glasses are sitting on the table in the breakfast room right now, and I am stubbornly refusing to put them on.

Seeing extended italicized or bolded text causes me to skip trying to read it. But maybe that's just me.

In fact, DoT does not blockquote. Instead he puts quotation marks around the text he is quoting without any use of italics or bold. To me, and maybe only me, this is to be preferred over bolding or italicizing extended quotes.

Personally, I prefer reserving italics and bold for short snippets of text. As always, I am trying to make JOM as readable as possible -- my intent is not to criticize the way others post. My suggestions may not be widely held, and where that is true, I do hope they are ignored. Ignorance is bliss.

[MarkO]

Hell, hit. I'm lucky to get the damn thing typed at all. Whenever I've tried to use what is described as "HTML tags" nothing good happens.

You'll have to pretend I typed a paper in 1963.

[Tom Maguire]

TM must be alive

Early returns remain ambiguous.

[AliceH]

Hit: I see your point but how do you say? That's just how I roll.

[Ignatz]

--My appeal last weekend to always cite the person/post one is referring to when commenting here has gone largely ignored (Chubby really gave a go at it, though!).--

In our JOM meetup last week I suggested, when quoting text, to include the name and time stamp of the comment one is referring to as a method of ID. Since then I've sedulously avoided doing it but vow to give it a shot, just for you Hit...starting with my very next comment. :)
It's especially useful to others when coming onto a thread that has been going on for some time and quoting from a page or two back, which as an early snoozer, I do quite a lot of many mornings.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

We don't need more stinkin' rules.

[hit and run]

Alice:
I see your point but how do you say? That's just how I roll.

Have I told you lately that I have a crust on you?

[DrJ]

hit and run on August 11, 20122 at 7:31 PM said:

Extended quotes of others' words should be blockquoted.

Ya think Dana will do it?

[Thomas Collins]

I tend to agree, but your use of the follow-up research report without clearly delineating what you think is still sound in the original research report puzzles me. :-))

[Rob Crawford]

Well, the "true conservatives" who wouldn't have voted for Romney anyway sure aren't happy with this pick. The "he's a MORMON" clowns will be adding on "AND HE'S A CATH-O-LICK!" The Ron Paultards will, of course, be too busy between waking up (noon) and 4:20 (toking up) finding a supplier to vote, but they're unhappy because Ryan's "never accomplished anything".

The "what has the lesser of two evils gotten us" crowd is apparently ready to give Obama the chance to give more industries to the union thugs, just to show the rest of us.

The left, meanwhile, is busy explaining to everyone that Ryan and Romney are white males -- this is apparently a bad thing -- while screaming all the same things they screamed before Reagan and both Bush's were elected. This is supposed to be convincing.

[hit and run]

Jane:
We don't need more stinkin' rules.

More? What rules exist at present?

You know who likes anarchy? Dana.

[DrJ]

Hey, Rob, good the see you posting here again!

[hit and run]

DrJ:
Ya think Dana will do it?

I wouldn't think so, he's an anarchist.

[Ignatz]

Today's subjects, if any arms enthusiasts are hanging around;


Now, off to explain to my wife what stupendous investment they are; she's so gullible.

[rse]

hit-with my posts please remember that it has not been that long since hubby had to ask kids to help mom get on the internet.

Plus there was that episode when I finally starting emailing and some of my close friends were said to have fainted from shocked. Another friend said the family gathered around the computer to verify that I had left the 19th century behind.

[Dave (in MA)]

Why would Nixon use "Ryan's the man" for a slogan?

[Ignatz]

--hit-with my posts please remember that it has not been that long since hubby had to ask kids to help mom get on the internet

Posted by: rse | August 11, 2012 at 07:54 PM--

And now you've got your own blog, rse.

See that right there Hit?

[Dave (in MA)]

D'oh, I just saw MarkO's 7:17.

[Rick Ballard]

"Why would Nixon use "Ryan's the man" for a slogan?"

Extraordinary prescience?

[hit and run]

rse, I have no recollection of you ever italicizing or bolding anything. As such, please, please, please carry on.

[Ignatz]

--Why would Nixon use "Ryan's the man" for a slogan?

Posted by: Dave (in MA) | August 11, 2012 at 07:56 PM--

Because he was tricky?

[hit and run]

Ignatz:
See that right there Hit?

Yes. I see all.

[Clarice]

ulsterman whose insider is a think made up is nevertheless quite funny today:http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/08/11/white-house-insider-on-paul-ryan-vp-pick-obama-just-sht-himself/

[pops]

Biden released a statement saying he would be proud and honored to debate a fine former CIA agent like Jack Ryan and looked forward to meeting him to discuss the Bin Laden takedown....

[Clarice]

Great Ramirez cartoon on the Stopic fiasco
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/559265_487724111257116_1623901829_n.jpg

[rse]

But hit I just learned how to do that recently and after an initial faux pas I am now careful to close.

I promise not to bold a whole section but the occasional word is fun. At least for the technologically challenged trying to practice.

And Iggy-I thought I had successfully embedded the YouTube and it turned out to be just the link.

It was a start and I really had to get on to my family that leaning over and doing it for me was not teaching me a thing.

[NJ Jan]

Hit and Run,
italics? Bold? Block quotes? I have barely figured out how to post. I am able to include posters name. Maybe after I read Posting for Dummies, although that's optimistic.

[Sara]

Tea party movement is libertarian at core, study suggests

I posted this link at the bottom of the last thread with a comment that said it explains why I felt so comfortable with Tea Partiers around HERE. Here was not here, but here as in my neck of the woods.

[Rick Ballard]

NJ Jan,

JOM has no rules. If it had rules, half of us could never post due to not being able to remember where we put the paper with the rules written on it.

[Rob Crawford]

Clearly Ryan was the wrong pick -- disaffected Republicans, staying away in droves, have brought Romney's site to a standstill.

I've been trying to get on the Romney site for a couple hours -- because, as a weak-kneed, weak-hearted conservative I'm going to stab Lady Liberty in the back by supporting their campaign -- but no response.

[hit and run]

rse:
I promise not to bold a whole section but the occasional word is fun.

See, that's exactly what the hit and run style guide says bold is for!

[Dave (in MA)]

A facebook acquaintance of mine proudly posts of his son's trip to Japan to teach a college course in "Race in Baseball". Apparently the teaching of 'studies' is an affliction not unique to the US.

He also pointed out this morning that the "Nuns on the Bus" will be busy this Fall. Apparently this is a handful of useful idiots that the Left is more than happy to point to as examples of real Catholics, and they've been making Code Pink-style pests of themselves at Ryan public appearances for a while now.

[Ignatz]

A couple of interesting links, at least to me;
Video of a small plane crashing from a camera in the cockpit and;
A boobs eye view of some crazy Russian chick walking on a beam a few hundred feet off the ground without a harness.
My apologies for the embedded Midol commercial.

[pops]

Harry Reid released a statement saying he met a man in the Town DanceBoutique mens bathroom that filled him in with dirt on Ryan and his so-called good friend Marko Ramius.

Reid was quite excited to spread the mans dirt.

[Ignatz]

--He also pointed out this morning that the "Nuns on the Bus" will be busy this Fall.--

Would it be a mortal sin to put up a roadblock and throw them under their own bus?

[Dave (in MA)]

Harry Reid released a statement saying he met a man in the Town DanceBoutique mens bathroom that filled him in

I'm sure he did.

[pops]

I think we misjudged the power of Romney in the White House. Can you imagine a foriegn policy where he can pick up the phone and tell Putin and Almadeenjadh that he will kills their wives in 22 days if they don't fall in line.

Obama only wields that kind of power over aborted fetus that survive the procedure and dogs on forign soil.

[Sara]

See, that's exactly what the hit and run style guide says

Many years ago, back in Compuserve days, I used software developed for posting in their forums and got used to its preformed comments.

Italics when quoting what you are replying about.

Blockquotes for linked quotes.

I try to stick to that format, but lately I've gotten lazy and sloppy.

Firefox HTML toolbar makes it so much easier, but really there isn't much to remember about two commands.

[Barbara]

The Naval Observatory has gone dark. hit and run @ 6:05 pm

They're all out buying Depends for the upcoming campaign/debate.

[Danube of Thought]

You're part right, hit. I use quotation marks when posting from my iPad because I don't know how to do blockquotes (or italics) on that device.

But when at my computer, I observe two protocols: (1) when quoting the language of a previous post, I italicize it; and (2) when quoting anything longer than a single phrase or sentence from another source, I blockquote it.

[pops]

"""""
Harry Reid released a statement saying he met a man in the Town DanceBoutique mens bathroom that filled him in
I'm sure he did.
Posted by: Dave (in MA)""""

HE DID! I heard it from a guy that use to work in Reids office before Reid touched him in a naughty place.

[hit and run]

Ignatz:
A boobs eye view of some crazy Russian chick walking on a beam a few hundred feet off the ground without a harness.

She placed an uncanny trust in her plastic surgeon to get the "balance" right.

[Barbara]

(2) when quoting anything longer than a single phrase or sentence from another source, I blockquote it.

Good idea, DoT. That makes long quotations so much easier to read.

[hit and run]

DoT:
But when at my computer, I observe two protocols

I have a crust on your protocols.

[Uncle BigBad]

Clarice

That may be the greatest Ramirez cartoon I've ever seen.

[Ignatz]

--She placed an uncanny trust in her plastic surgeon to get the "balance" right.

Posted by: hit and run | August 11, 2012 at 08:19 PM --

Is that a boob joke inside a boob joke?

And I have to ask if that is the perfect comment. Short italics, one word bolding and a time stamp.

[Sara]

I was just reading Ryan's bio and his work with Kasten and Jack Kemp, but then I saw this about his wife at Althouse:

Janna Little, the future Mrs. Paul Ryan, was a Washington tax attorney living in Arlington, Va., when she met him. The Oklahoma native graduated from Wellesley College and George Washington University Law School.

[pops]

Wow, punished with three babies too.

sad....

[hit and run]

Ignatz:
And I have to ask if that is the perfect comment.

It needed a higher comma density to be perfect.

[DrJ]

Since we've devolved into boob jokes, tonight's menu in honor of our very hot day is smoked salmon (out in 10 minutes), home-made potato salad, pineapple tomatoes (from the garden), and freshly baked rolls. There's baba ganoush (garden eggplant) if we want it.

[pops]

""""HE DID! I heard it from a guy that use to work in Reids office before Reid touched him in a naughty place."""

I meant Vegas...you sickos.....

[Janet]

I think there is a JOM protocol to use a lot of these - "...". I obey that protocol.

[hit and run]

NJ Jan:
I have barely figured out how to post.

That really is an innocent and beautiful state of JOMhood. Just post. Don't get fancy. Be yourself. Yourself is awesome!

[Rob Crawford]

There's baba ganoush (garden eggplant) if we want it.

Love it when that guy competes on Most Extreme Challenge.

[hit and run]

Janet:
I think there is a JOM protocol to use a lot of these - "...". I obey that protocol.

Well, because the hit and run style guide is so extensive, the proper use is to put spaces between the periods in an ellipse.

Like . . . this.

For full credit, I learned that from Cecil Turner and use it every chance I get. It's the extra . . . wait for it . . . pause that makes it . . . awesome.

I think it's chapter 5, but hell if I can remember at this point. I left the style guide inside and refuse to get up again until I have to . . . pee.

[pops]

baba ganoush ??

Isn't that the guy that works at Bidens 7-11?

[Clarice]

Ryan's wife is Senator Boren (Okl) 's niece.

[Janet]

Just post. Don't get fancy. Be yourself.

and use a lot of these ...

[DrJ]

baba ganoush (there are many transliterations):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush

[hit and run]

I had to pee. It is indeed chapter 5.

[tcb]

Browning A-5 Magnum
Winchester Model 21
Supermatic citation pistol Model 103

[Sara]

The weather this Summer has been some of the weirdest I can remember. We just had a massive thunderstorm and just up the road from me they experienced a bad hail storm. It got so dark, I had to turn on the overhead light and my computer light to see across the room. It dropped the triple digit temps down into the 80s, but unfortunately with near 100% humidity it still feels like triple digits. It is bad enough to be fainting hot, but add in sticky too and it gets pretty unbearable, especially when you have 4 dogs all trying to get on my lap at the same time every time there is even a hint of a rumble of thunder. I finally got over on the bed and made the big dog, over 100 lbs., lie down against my back. He was shaking so bad, it was like getting a "magic fingers" massage without have to insert a quarter.

[hit and run]

Wow, I also grabbed my glasses.

I really shouldn't leave home (for the driveway) without them.

[Sara]

Paul Ryan, bow hunter: