A thousand words, Biden/Ryan fallout, Liberalatarians, don’t fuck with the Jews, Voter ID laws and the perception of fraud, and the cream of the crap.
Welcome to the Daily Sausage.
First off, a thousand words from Doghouse Riley on the now-infamous picture of Paul Ryan “working out”.
I say “working out” because, as I noted to my personal trainer, Paul Ryan clearly skips Leg Day, and neither he nor I can vote for someone that skips Leg Day.
And now, some Biden/Ryan VP fallout.
Based on the comments in the VP Debate Open Thread last night, it’s entirely possible Vice President Biden got someone pregnant. Biden continues to be the second luckiest man alive, second only to his boss, for being able to campaign against someone whose political skills are clearly not up to snuff.
Charles P. Pierce is up first with a devastating takedown:
The ideas he could explain were bad enough, but the profound ignorance he displayed on Thursday night on a number of important questions, including when and where the United States might wind up going to war next, and his blithe dismissal of any demand that he be specific about where he and his running mate are planning to take the country generally, was so positively terrifying that it calls into question Romney’s judgment for putting this unqualified greenhorn on the ticket at all. Joe Biden laughed at him? Of course, he did. The only other option was to hand him a participation ribbon and take him to Burger King for lunch.
You know what’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan?
Lipstick.
Ed from Gin and Tacos follows up with a list of sports-related analogies.
Moving from the emotional to the factual, here’s ThinkProgress’ roundup of Ryan’s 24 fibs in 40 minutes. Not quite the Full Romney of 1 lie per minute, but not bad either.
But, let’s move on to the big lie of the evening: Ryan’s “Premium Support” plan for Medicare is not a voucher. Except, according to the One True Pundit Paul Krugman, it is. And let us not forget Ryan’s plan to shuffle Social Security into the Wall Street casino.
And for those of you who doubt The Great and Powerful Krugs, be gone from this place until you recognize the dangers of a Romney-Ryan administration dragging us into a second recession vis a vis FDR in 1937.
The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf is back, and he says “Paul Ryan is unqualified to step in as POTUS”. So Conor, about that whole “Not gonna vote for President Obama, but not gonna vote for Romney/Ryan either because I’m a principled Liberalatarian*” thing? Might want to reconsider that.
* Liberalatarian: a new term I’ve coined to describe individuals who are socially and fiscally liberal with some libertarian streaks in areas like foreign policy, government spending, etc. I used to consider myself something of a Liberalatarian, but I find in my old age I’ve grown increasingly liberal in general.
And to wrap up our VP debate coverage, we ask one question: Joe Biden, crazy like a fox?
They don’t call him “Diamond Joe” for nothing.
Some of you may have seen Samuel L. Jackson narrating the children’s book “Go The Fuck To Sleep”. Welp, a Jewish progressive Super PAC has released a video of Samuel L. Jackson yelling at old people and a small child yelling “Wake the fuck up!”, which pretty much ends this year’s “Best Political Ad” category.
All of the muckety-mucks behind the nation-wide GOP Voter Suppression efforts met in Washington this week for a conference I call “Suppressionpalooza 2012!”. Admittedly, not my best title, but it’s better that Suppressionfest or Suppression: Live at Red Rocks.
Anyway, the crux of their argument is that Americans need assurance via Voter ID laws not only to combat actual non-existent voter fraud, but to also combat the idea that voter fraud is a not non-existent problem.
Basically, we’re going to disenfranchise millions of voters who happen to be primarily Democrats because there is a very small minority of people that believe that there is an army of illegitimate voters out there somehow subverting the “will of the people”, which coincidentally happens to mean “voting Republican”.
Calling this a straw man argument is an insult to hard working straw men everywhere.
And finally, some clips from last night’s Daily Show confirming everything we already knew: Mitt Romney really is the best the GOP has, because everyone underneath him is a crackpot or loon.
