Paul Ryan; or, this year's Sarah Palin

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I should open this article by saying something nice about Paul Ryan.

 

 

Okay: he has pretty eyes.

 

 

Now on to some other issues.

 

 

Ryan is a “fiscal heavyweight.” He actually concocted a budget!

 

 

(Actually, budgets are easy to create; an intelligent ten-year old can put one together. Income should equal expenditures; if it doesn’t, then you need to spend less, or earn more, or some combination of the two. The question is: what kinds of things do we spend less on?

 

 

(Oh, that’s easy. The arts. Education. Social programs. Who needs ‘em?

 

 

(Not to mention health care – which, after all, is a non-issue, since (as G. W. Bush reminded us some years back), everyone can always go to an emergency room.)

 

 

In any case, I don’t think Ryan is quite ready for the national stage. Take the following incidents as examples:

 

 

-          He appeared in a soup-kitchen photo op, madly scrubbing a pot. Turns out the pot was already clean, and the soup kitchen didn’t even want him there in the first place.

-          He made a personal appearance at a football game and made a long congratulatory speech to the quarterback. Except that it turned out he was the wrong quarterback.

-          Then there’s the whole issue of those workout photos. Remember that adorable picture of Sarah Palin wearing a bikini and holding a gun? Same thing. Except, of course, that the Palin picture was photoshopped, and the Ryan photos are real.

 

 

The Right likes to portray Joe Biden as Mister Malaprop. Perhaps they should have given their own VP choice another look this year. They have a history of choosing doofuses for the position, like Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin; I do believe they might have done it again.

 

 

But those eyes: it’s a day’s work just to look into them.

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