Diggity Dana on Jack Ryan

[Aaron Burr]

Yeah, I figured since I fugged up on the front page and wrote Jack instead of Paul...like 6 or 7 times I'll just roll with it.

Anyway, here's what my not so secret crush has to say.



"The biggest criticism of the Romney campaign has been its lackluster way of dealing with the media. No one understood the battle with the media better than the late Andrew Breitbart, who foresaw that our candidates would be running against headlines rather than Obama. The addition of Paul Ryan to the ticket has given us a sigh of relief, because if there's one thing we know about Paul Ryan: the man can handle the media. "

True, my lil' Wonder Pet. True. It's not about the message when you don't control the medium.

the cutest lil' political commentator in the whole ding dang world

I guess I can live with the Jack Ryan pick instead of Marco Rubio...it's just... I had this deal in the works to get a bazillion m&m's printed up with Mitt and Marcos face on them. I hate a missed business opportunity like that.

[Uncle Al]

Ryan's a stinker, but then anybody Willard would pick would have to be a stinker.

[Aaron Burr]

Look, we've been over this before. Your candidate quit. He gave up. He packed up his Nike running shoes and satin sheets and is heading for the mothership.

Further, calling Jack Ryan a stinker hardly qualifies as legitimate political criticism. What the fudge do I care if Jack likes to take English Leather baths or not? The man can string together some random nouns and verbs into some very cogent prose. That counts for a lot.

Or it would if I could stop staring at his fuggin' ears. What's the deal with those things? Bigger than Jug Ears? The same? I think we should run a contest and find out.

[Uncle Al]

Yeah, sure, he quit running for the Republican Party nomination for prez. But he didn't quit his main effort, which has been quite remarkably successful, of raising questions about how things really work. For example, do you think any candidates would ever utter the words "Federal Reserve" if not for RP? Plus his minions have been really thorowing monkey wrenches in Republican state machinery by using the same rules the machine pols wrote to squash dissent against those same crooked pols. It's been highly entertaining, even though the efforts ultimately fell short.

And, OK, calling Ryan a stinker is superficial. Down deep, he's a jerk whose ego boundary now extends not only to the borders of the USA but all the way 'round the world. He identifies himself with empire and power. And his "cogent prose" is hypocritical mouthing of balanced budget blather belied by his profligate voting record on spending and debt.

Does that qualify as "legitimate political criticism" or what?

[Aaron Burr]

Most splendiferously so.

Yet it seems a bit broad. You find his ego to compare to that of Bidens or even Jug Ears? You find his hypocritical mouthings to be ineffective? Those mouthings just landed him the V.P. gig you realize.

But again, I'm voting for a Republican and not a Conservative so I personally find little to criticize. He's not Jug Ears. Therefore, he's totally electable.

[Uncle Al]

Ah. I see you are not familiar with the concept of ego boundary. Having a large ego boundary is not at all the same as having a large ego, though it is not uncommon to have both. Your ego boundary involves what you identify with external to your own self.

As for Willard not being 0, all I can say is that the infinitesimal reduction in govt evil-doings potentially resulting from the former defeating the latter is not worth any sweat.

[Aaron Burr]

Just keep your damn eggos on your side of the boundary and vote for the sumb!tch.

[Uncle Al]

No, sorry to disappoint, but I won't be voting for any sumbitch. I'm not even registered to vote, but I'm re-thinking that because that's where jury lists come from and given the high ratio of bad laws to good laws, being on a jury is my only practical way to screw up the works. Yes, I'm fully informed.

[Aaron Burr]

Then you are a default Obama voter. All that is needed for Evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing. Or something.

Further, the current administration is in direct competition with our brand over the rights and trademarks to EvilTm. I need the Obama administration to disappear in the old timey Argentinian way in order to secure market dominance for our superior brand of EvilTm.

Go register to vote for whoever I tell you to and I'll send you some free swag. Possibly something motorized.

[Uncle Al]

No, dammit, I am not a "default Obama voter." This is a cliché now, but voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for evil. No. I won't do that. But I'd sure take some quick helicopter piloting lessons if I had a shot at participating in that ol' timey Argentine disappearing act.