Willard Sells His Soul

Whatever tattered, tired, tawdry shred of a human soul he had left, Willard Mitt Romney mortgaged to the masters of Mammon--those who hate the New Deal and all the programs which helped ordinary people without great riches--who will if given the chance eviscerate Social Security for my nieces and nephews and other future retirees, slash Medicare and throw seniors to the wolves of the free (rapacious) market of for profit health insurance. and just generally screw the 88% by repealing such things as workplace safety rules which save lives.

He did this by picking Paul "Pretty Boy" Ryan, class warrior, WI, as his running mate, Paul Ryan the author of a budget so pernicious it only finds support because people can't bring themselves to believe the evil of it.

So Sunday will deluge me with TV talking heads on the courage of the pick and how the United States must make tough choices to combat deficits.

These over inflated Easter Island statue sized egos will opine shared sacrifice, which to them means keeping their slice of President Cheney's tax cuts and making no cuts to a bloated military budget with forces set to face a World War 3 which will never come, means shredding whatever little we have left of any safety net and throwing more families on the streets of America the Beautiful.

[Leave it to Willard Romney, international man of principle, to get himself bullied into being bold and independent.

Make no mistake. In his decision to make Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, his running mate, Romney finally surrendered the tattered remnants of his soul not only to the extreme base of his party, but also to extremist economic policies, and to an extremist view of the country he seeks to lead. This is unimaginable to those of us who lived under Romney's barely perceptible stewardship of the Commonwealth (God save it!). If he'd even hinted that he agreed with a fraction of a smidgen of a portion of the policies on which Ryan has built his career, Romney would have been hanging from the Sacred Cod by the middle of 2005. And it's hard not to notice that the way the decision got leaked -- in the dead of a Friday night, with the Olympics still going on, after two weeks in which Romney and his campaign had demonstrated all the political skills of a handball -- fairly dripped with flopsweat...

And Gloria Borger ran a pre-taped interview in which she seemed to be struggling with the issue of whether it would be unprofessional to ask Paul Ryan to prom...]http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Ryan_Pick