Okay, so he didn’t actually eviscerate anyone, but it was a joke from The Daily Show aboot blogs and how we always go straight to Defcon 5 over anything, and I thought it would be funny. Hey, it’s my blog!
But anyway, with all the Rep. Paul Ryan love that’s been going on the throughout the editorial pages and the internets lately, it was only a matter of time before someone dissented, as they didn’t recently in the Daily Caller. In a nutshell, three recent votes that Ryan made over the past year caused to the author to call into question his conservative bona-fides.
I’ve never been one for “tests” or “checklists” where a handful of votes are reviewed and that is what decides if you’re conservative or not. For starters, it all depends if you like the guy or not (Sen. Lindsey Graham who has a 90 lifetime rating with the ACU), but also sometimes you have to put you constituents over the “movement,” and the decision making process is a little more nuanced than simply voting yes or no.
Here’s Ryan on his vote for the auto bailout…
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I’m not a big fan of the belief that the YRs (Young Republicans) need to “wait their turn.” The old way of if you kiss enough ass, donate enough money, and let the party control you and who you’re friends with they might let you run for something in twenty years doesn’t work for me, and so far in 2010 it doesn’t work for many others either. If YRs aren’t running for office themselves, they’re running the campaigns, starting their own companies, and finding other ways to effect the political process. Remember, the YRs and the YAF (Young America’s Foundation) were the one’s who chose Ronald Reagan were the grown-ips were telling us how Gerald Ford was just the cats pajamas.
Somewhere Mike Pence just smacked himself in the forehead and said “DOH!”
Mitt Romney is a curious cat to watch in 2010. As the most likely heir apparent to the Republican nomination (since he’s next in line, and that’s just how we roll) I thought it was smart the way he was applying the “sneak attack” method, where he would wait for things to get bad for the Obama Campaign, run in, explain why Obama was wrong and how he would do things better, and run out before anyone got a chance to ask him aboot running. I felt it helped re-brand himself as “Mr. Fix It.”
