Third Thought on Paul Ryan

The immediate benefit to Mitt from picking Ryan is that the Press Corps will stop talking about Mitt.  For a while.  For the next week or two the story won’t be the tax returns and the gaffes and Bain and begging the President to stop picking on him and looking at him funny.  It will be what a smart and brave guy Paul Ryan is and isn’t it great that this campaign will finally be about tackling the deficit and reining in entitlements and just how deeply back into their place we have to put poor people.

I don’t get it.

I don’t get the National Press Corps’ collective man-crush on Paul Ryan.

I got Reagan. I got Newt. I got W., grudgingly.  I even get Palin.

Inside DC he must play very differently.  But out here he comes across as just another dweeby company man who’s climbed the promotion ladder by impressing his bosses by telling them exactly what they want to hear but with charts.

If life were a movie, he’d be the guy the boss wants his daughter to marry instead of Clark Gable.

Seriously!  What am I missing?  What’s his secret?  Does he just give off a vibe?  Does he smell nice?  Are those big staring blue eyes hypnotic?

Can anybody in DC explain it?  Why do they swoon for him so?

Comments

[Claire Helene]

I'd like to know the answer to this to. You totally nailed it on the head when you said he's the guy the father wants his daughter to marry instead of Clark Gable.

[Linkmeister]

He's a SERIOUS man with SERIOUS plans to fix the deficit, and those plans won't hurt people who live in the same houses that the Washington Press Corps does. Their in-laws, maybe, but that's their lookout. Therefore he's important and must be taken seriously.

[El Jefe]

Link,

This.

Claire Helene,

On his best day, that's who Ryan is. Actually -- and given the number of horrific, truly horrific and violent and racist and even eliminationist, things that Republicans have said over the years about our side I'll go there -- I get a senss from Ryan disturbingly like Peter Lorre in M. There's a deeply creeper vibe about him, as my off-to-college daughter would say.

[Katherine]

i completely recognize him as a ZEGS and as i am a granny on Medicare i take this seriously but i must confess that when i saw Mitt introduce him on the big boat and he came running out all exited without a tie and very exuberant and happy my inner teenage girl thought he was kinda cute / and i recall being taken in for a while with The Fountainhead but i was younger than springtime and soon got over it / i dont know if Paul Ryan will be able to do that / furthermore i am a very very strong supporter of President Obama

Katherine