Long before their notable public sparring during the "Massacre in Baltimore" when Pres. Obama laid to waste the entire House Republican caucus at their Jan 29, 2010 retreat until now, Paul Ryan fancied himself the conservative star who will "take down" President Obama. He was one of those present at the infamous meeting that took place the night of President Obama's Inauguration where they decided to totally obstruct the incoming president. Ryan's entire conduct since then, evidenced in his voting "NO" on every single bill regardless of content, underscores his scorched earth ideological agenda.
Freudian slip or not, when Romney introduced Ryan yesterday as "the next President of the United States", it symbolized for all intents and purposes a palace coup, the completion of the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. The hard right thinks the stars are NOW aligned perfectly in their favor to spring the ultimate coup d'etat on our democracy using the perversion of the democratic process itself to dismantle our commonweal as we know it. As the Kochs' golden young gun groomed to deliver the extremely cruel Bircher ideological agenda with slick gelled hair, Ryan's paymasters think he's ideally suited for a Cheneyesque catbird's seat keeping tabs on a nervous GOP congress while also muzzling ceremonial head-of-state Romney.
At this point, Paul Ryan's inflated sense of self comes from how he thinks he can leverage the status elevation that earlier newsmaking public exchanges with President Obama granted him. So even though he is NOT Pres. Obama's direct counterpart in the race, like the GOP did with Palin, the media narrative will be forced to pitch the Prez in split screen with Ryan. The GOP is counting on those optics to bamboozle the electorate with all manner of subliminal messages. That's the plan...
...Well not so fast. President Obama's campaign and the entire Democratic Party have been chomping at the bit not only to put the Ryan budget under blinding public Klieg lights for all to see the cruel document that it is, but judge the ENTIRE Republican party too. Ryan should know this because we all saw him over and over again these last 3.75 years get a bitter taste of President Obama's smackdown of his and the radical Republican agenda.
Let's take a trip down recent memory lane...
