{"id":184077,"date":"2012-08-11T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/11\/mitt-picks-a-running-mate\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T01:31:00","slug":"mitt-picks-a-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/11\/mitt-picks-a-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Picks a Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Mitt Rmoney has picked Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running.<\/p>\n<p>Only in America could be someone who idolizes a virulently anti-religious atheist with the sexual morals of a rabid mink in heat could be considered the savior of the Republicans, and conservative politics.<\/p>\n<p>Of sourse, it <b>is<\/b> America, so Paul Ryan, who is such a fan of hack writer Ayn Rand that he requires his staff to read every page of <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also the guy who put forward a budget that eliminated Medicare, which led to some very surprising losses in special elections for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine that Willard needs to appease the party&#8217;s right-wing base this badly, so I gotta figure that this is a ploy to get Obama to stop talking about his tax returns, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know who Paul Ryan is, I would refer you to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/paul-ryan-romney-vp-pick-11562917\">Charlie Pierce<\/a> on what a contemptible piece or work he is.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, Michael Moore had the tweet of the day:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMFlint\/status\/234437942335139840\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/bP52u.png\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This might be unfair to Charles Manson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Mitt Rmoney has picked Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running. Only in America could be someone who idolizes a virulently anti-religious atheist with the sexual morals of a rabid mink in heat could be considered the savior of the Republicans, and conservative politics. Of sourse, it is America, so Paul Ryan, who is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206,1003,978,977,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitt-romney","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}