With President Obama taking a deserved rest from his world-record 225 fundraisers, the main campaign event on Saturday was Paul Ryan’s joint appearance with his mother before an audience of Florida seniors.
The Left went into the weekend disappointed that Mr. Ryan had not – yet – been arrested for domestic abuse, homicide, drunk driving, armed robbery, pimping, tax evasion, altar boyism or regularly speaking above their heads – in spite of their round-the-clock assaults on his virtually impeccable character.
Boys, despair not.
As long as the Los Angeles Titanic, The New York Times and the Financial Times of London remain approximately upright, the Angry Left has ample reason to be hopeful Mr. Ryan will be toppled the way Hussein’s statue was in Iran almost a decade ago.
26 Years Ago
Only a heavyweight like Mr. Ryan – the most charismatic Republican candidate for national office since the Mr. Reagan stepped down 26 years ago – could have weathered the blizzard of putrid propaganda cartoonishly cooked up by President Panic, whose team shifted into desperation mode when Mr. Ryan appeared.
Mr. Panic’s re-election chances, at least for the present, slipped perceptibly.
For the sport of it, I laid out, side by side, three newspapers’ pre-speech reports on Mr. Ryan’s first sally into Florida.
Lopsidedly liberal Paul West “reported” for the Titanic. More accurately, he acted as Mr. Obama’s ventriloquist.
The Left media decided even before Mr. Romney finished his Vice Presidential announcement nine days ago that Mr. Ryan was dishonest, would irreparably damage the GOP ticket, that the dead Howdy Doody knew more about Medicare than Mr. Ryan and the Mafia had a better record for integrity.
You Go. I Shall Stay.
After mulling all of those well-wishers, forming a beautiful cloud of emotional motivation, Mr. Ryan announced on the flight to Florida, “Um, I shall stay in the race.”
Mr. West’s story, ostensibly focusing on Mr. Ryan’s speech, by golly turned out to be the Titanic’s 51st anti-Ryan screed in six days. Direct from the White House Talking Points memo, again, the heart of Mr. West’s Ryan story supportively detailed the President’s knockdown of him.
One of the values of a veteran journalist such as Mr. West is his ability to reverse a panicked circumstance by slyly knifing the person with whom he disagrees. No hammer to the temple, just greasy gibes that suggest Republicans would be foolish to keep Mr. Ryan on the ticket.
A Medicare Maven? Isn’t Everyone?
Mr. West suddenly is an obsessed instant maven on Medicare, like the rest of the offended Angry Left because Medicare is supposed to be President Panic’s monopolized pull-toy. Twisting himself into illogical rhetorical knots, Mr. West warns Republican readers of the liability Mr. Ryan represents. He says Mr. Ryan’s speech on Medicare Saturday would give “unexpected prominence to a topic that could hurt Romney’s chances.”
Or at least Mr. West hopes so. But when you own the printing press, boys, truth and the American way do not matter.
May I Copy a Copy of Your Copy?
The virulently anti-Republican Financial Times has been as aggressive as its liberal step-brothers on the democratic side of the pond in templating President Panic’s talking points each morning. All of their Washington staff is working diligently and loudly to impugn Mr. Ryan.
This unsubtle posture usually is called being frightened.
The F.T.’s Ryan pre-speech story also is mostly about the World’s Greatest Orator, as the brilliant Andrew Malcolm of Investors Business Daily, calls him. What a dimwit Mr. Ryan would be to continue competing, the F.T. brassily concludes.
As soon as they heard about Mr. Ryan speaking in senior citizen-heavy Florida with his widowed mother, a seasonal Floridian, at his side, the single-voiced Left began pretending they were Henry James. Believing the President has the power to make time stand still, the Left trotted out tiers of data from 2008, showing how strongly seniors backed him. Since all elections are identical, the Left probably is correct.
As you know, the Left never has spoken as uniformly with one voice as in this vile campaign. Whether MSNBC, ABC or the Graham Cracker Network, liberals have unswervingly pledged to use the identical adjectives, nouns and verbs, emphasizing it is hopeless for the Romney-Ryan team to challenge the giant media.
The tone is the same as the Titanic story, all about the President and how he is using R & R as a rag mop. Or at least he would if he had learned a work ethic from his left-wing mentors.
Darn. Overlooking the Ryan speech, The New York Times was too busy performing amputation surgery on Mr. Ryan in Saturday’s edition, having pre-emptorily carved out his stinking conservative heart as Mr. Romney strode to a microphone a week ago Saturday to declare his choice. The battleaxes and the racists at the Times were busy boys. On Page 1, they ransacked Mr. Ryan for hanging with the disgusting “conservative elite” instead of the cerebral celebrities they champion. Above the fold on the cover, the Times identified another Obama failure, “Obama Lagging on Filling Seats in the Judiciary.” If you have 25 chances, dear reader, you never will guess who is at fault for the 289th significant washout of his administration. If you guess Democrats, you are, of course, wrong. Darn the Republican roadblockers.
Reporter Trip Gabriel, who had been whuppin’ Mr. Ryan with an ugly stick all week, screwed up and only wrote a mildly critical piece on Page 12. The copyeditors must have gone on strike to let the story skid through. For balance, the lower half of the page included a story on Mr. Ryan’s tax returns that brays about the secretive President’s admirable openness.
By the time a drained normal person staggers onto the Times’s op-ed page, he encounters America’s only black Klansman, Chuck Blowhard, an embarrassment for his racist vituperation every Saturday. If he criticized Republicans every week, that would be fine. But his vile language, his childish mockery, and his inability to reason mark him as a zero on the most influential newspaper in the land.
One column over, humorless Social Security essayist Gail Collins, another non-deep thinker, hooks her thumbs into her ears and wiggles them instead of examining the campaign’s personalities. At the asylum, they call it piling on.
How do you respond to bloodcurdling distortions and child-level lies about Republican lives, resumés and issues?
Smartly.
Since Mr. Ryan grabbed his shimmering charisma by the hand and entered the election race, the Romney campaign counted $10 million in online contributions the first six days.
At that pace, Mr. Obama is to be commended for making a rare correct decision – panicking.
