I'm in a quandary.
Usually, I despise Maureen Dowd's opinions and
her syrupy soft diatribes on Face The Nation.
But this time, I agree with her.
To post or not to post ? Oh well...
NY Times
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 14, 2012
When Cruelty Is Cute
Quote:
I’d been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize
that Paul Ryan is their guy. He’s the cutest package that cruelty ever came in.
He has a winning air of sad cheerfulness. He’s affable, clean cute and really cute,
with the Irish altar-boy widow’s peak and droopy, winsome blue eyes and unashamed sentimentality.
Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?
He’s Scrooge disguised as a Pickwick, an ideologue disguised as a wonk.
Not since Ronald Reagan tried to cut the budget by categorizing ketchup and relish as vegetables
has the G.O.P. managed to find such an attractive vessel to mask harsh policies with a smiling face.<snip>
Rush Limbaugh hails Ryan as “the last Boy Scout,” noting that the tall, slender
42-year-old is a true believer: “We now have somebody on the ticket who’s us.”
For the rest of us, at least, Ryan is not going to raise our hopes only to dash them.
Unlike W., he’s not even going to make a feint at “compassionate conservatism.”
Why bother with some silly scruple or toehold of conscience?<snip>
The secretive, ambiguous Romney was desperate for ideological clarity,
so he outsourced his political identity to Ryan, a numbers guy whose numbers don’t add up.
This just proves that Romney will never get over his anxiety about not being conservative enough.
As president, he’d still feel the need to prove himself with right-wing Supreme Court picks.
Ryan should stop being so lovable.
People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces.
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