I presented you with the real DNC characterization, by way of Debbie Wasserman Schultz (and her pet poodle, Mr Tinkles, who sleeps curled up on her scalp) of Paul Ryan earlier; now here’s NRO’s Peter Kirsanow ostensibly parodying the New Left Democrat Party’s attempt to “frame” for us a “narrative” of the Romney candidacy. The real problem with Romney, as Kirsanow tells us,
. . . is not so much that he causes cancer, but that he’s a member of the E. coli Club of Newton, Massachusetts, which, according to a close friend of Harry Reid, requires its members to rob women on their way to drugstores so they won’t be able to buy contraceptives they probably can’t afford anyway because of the Republicans’ (and Catholic Church’s) war on women, resulting in more unwanted children going to schools without books, causing them to become either felons or vampires who cut their classmates’ hair and strap dogs to the roofs of station wagons driven on crumbling roads and bridges spanning polluted rivers next to businesses the owners didn’t build on their way to shovel-ready jobs that aren’t that shovel-ready because Bain Capital will probably outsource them to China if Romney is elected by racists who don’t want to spread any more of the wealth around to the 100 million people receiving welfare benefits from a federal government that’s running a $1.7 trillion deficit because Romney hasn’t paid taxes in more than 10 years, despite the fact that he has enough money to buy his wife a blouse that costs even more money than the taxpayers lost on Solyndra, whose default requires that taxes be raised on the rich before we reach the fiscal cliff that everyone knows is George Bush’s fault.
This made Johninfirestone laugh, which is why he sent the link to me. And while it’s certainly funny, I want to use it to underscore a point I’ve been making here for years, and that the GOP establishment simply refuses to acknowledge (or rather pretends not to, in what I’ve come to believe is a conscious choice: the left is going to call nearly any Republican candidate for a major national office “extreme,” despite a demonstrable history of Romney’s being anything but, to the point that we real “extremists” — that is, those of us fringe racists and xenophobes and our patriarchal penile projecting who believe, with the revolutionaries who founded this country, in free market capitalism, constitutional republicanism and state sovereignty, the autonomy of free men, and the stable rule of law — are not terribly thrilled with his next-in-line ascension, just as we were never thrilled with McCain, or Bush II, or Dole, or Bush I, or Ford, etc.
They do this in order to move the center ever leftward, and the GOP establishment, which is mostly the home to Rockefeller Republicans, go along, enjoying the increase in the size and scope of the federal government such an arrangement demands, and biding their time for when the American electorate wants something to the right of the left to take their turn at the crony trough.
Paul Ryan, for whatever his voting record, is nevertheless at least an articulate voice for the conservative movement message — however pragmatic he tends to be in how he determines it can be implemented on the policy level.
And for this reason, he will naturally be portrayed by the left and the media as a “severely conservative extreme Republican” — despite his being far less conservative in his messaging than, say, a Bachmann or a Palin or a Rand Paul or a Jim DeMint.
This is all apiece to re-calibrating the political spectrum leftward — and it is a trap too many “conservative” commenters willingly fall into.
Because let’s face it, boys: it’s already ridiculous to call someone a “severely conservative extreme Republican’; having the left add a few more adjectives and adverbs to the string isn’t really going to matter much — in fact, it will only serve to make them look that much more ridiculous — which is why I think it’s time for even you “pragmatists” worried about “electability” to agree that, if somebody like Romney or McCain is going to be portrayed as an extremist, we may as well go with a real conservative or classical liberal, no?
Or is it that you boys aren’t really all that conservative after all, and what you want most is to be part of that very GOP establishment you (on occasion) pretend to reject…?
If they aren’t pretending to reject it, they’re denying it exists at all…
Grapefruits
Look! Bunnies!
patriarchal penile projecting???
So I take it that SCAR 17s is a
slugsnail darter gun now?Part of what’s so stupid is that they called Bush 43 an extreme conservative and he was nothing of the sort. I recalled that quite well, which is why I wanted an actual conservative/classical liberal as our candidate. We got Mittens. Yay.
The pragmatists either have a short memory, or like our host said, they want a seat at the GOP establishment table.
Heh. Metrosexual RINO Allahpundit says that Romney’s choice of Ryan symbolizes the greatest assault on Democrat’s entitlements in our lifetime, but it’s like C3P0 leading the attack on the Death Star.
I’m guessing that missive was penned from deep in the forests of Mirkwood.
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If the Republicans went with a real conservative or classical liberal, the sheer number of liberals pissing themselves would probably create a new superfund site. Upon which they’d accuse the Republicans of hating the environment and wanting to see it destroyed.
Kirnasow’s jibe was funny, but you write better sentagraphs.
The SCAR has only a 16″ barrel.
It’s more how you use it than it is about size, Ernst.
My sentagraphs are known far and wide for their dazzling “somehow grammatically correct”-iveness.
It’s a gift. And a curse.
Anybody have a sense of what this has meant for R/R in polls? The polls at RCP haven’t budged an inch since Saturday although I think that means they haven’t been updated since Friday.
If they have been updated, then R/R, per my thesis on Saturday, are getting their asses handed to them since they are losing in Ohio, Florida and a few other handy states.
Outside that it’ll mean the same thing the pollsters determined it will mean before the choice it will mean after the choice, who’ld venture to say? Or for that matter, bother to say?
It’s a gift. And a curse.
– The only thing the Left and the Pragmatists have not accused you of as yet is being a closet amanuensis, but I’m sure they’ll get around to it eventually.
Good one, bbh. I had to look that up.
Polling taking over the weekends is generally misleading and to be disregarded. Polling results posted later this week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday will give a truer picture than available at present.
And what sdferr said.
“Or is it that you boys aren’t really all that conservative after all, and what you want most is to be part of that very GOP establishment you (on occasion) pretend to reject…?”
Um, yes.
Roddy sure is fighting for the Voice o’ Despair title belt, ne? One small, non-scientific tidbit – look at the reception O! is getting at his half filled, discount fundraisers and contrast to Mittens and Ryan’s reception. Throw in the frantic and flailing Lil’ Debbie appearances, ad backfires and I am not getting the same vibe of doom.
Better to expect nothing and receive something rather than expect something and be disappointed.
“The SCAR has only a 16? barrel.”
It’s supposed to be a very modular gun. A longer “match” barrel shouldn’t be much of a problem. In fact the less “carbine format” (potentially concealable) you make it the happier the gun control guys should be. On the other hand you’ll lose flexibility for using it indoors with a longer barrel.
The polls at RCP haven’t budged an inch since Saturday although I think that means they haven’t been updated since Friday.
yo rody go looked at wi polls in may and what happened in june
If you haven’t seen it, @DWStweets is flabbergasted after @WolfBlitzer actually (gently and seemingly contritely) confronts her lying lies.
His Democrat payola payoff-check must’ve been late arriving.
Also, (GASP!) A No Shit Sherlock moment: NYT notices that Paul Ryan has some TEAParty donors! including the evil Koch brothers!
To make sure we (and google) notices that, ‘Koch’ was used 9 times on the first page, none on the second. They know where the google ants crawl!
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz (and her pet poodle, Mr Tinkles, who sleeps curled up on her scalp)”
oh shit – Jeff it’s been a long time since I laughed out loud while reading this blog, but that made my morning. I know the end of America is upon us, but we need more of Mr. Tinkles.