On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Steve Diamond <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure I see how this creates a huge turnout for Romney, if that > was your view. I do see that it can reenergize the AFL throughout the > midwest who now have a target they can focus on in the wake of the Walker > debacle. The hardcore zealots love Ryan. So they will do the hard work of phone banking and door to door mobilizing. Some of them might have otherwise sat on their hands. > > On the other hand a Rubio pick would have avoided an unnecessary battle > with labor in the industrial heartland and possibly opened up the SxSW. > Labor is going to support Obama no matter what. > > The minute the word "fiscal" gets spoken people drift off and that seemed > to be exactly what happened during Ryan's speech today. > Yeah but Ryan is VEEP candidate not POTUS. So charisma does not matter. > > The last guy to run on an austerity program was someone named Jimmy Carter. > Both candidates are running on an austerity program in reality. Both candidates are claiming otherwise. > > And the last successful ticket without a southerner on board (assuming we > count Obama as a southerner in light of his natural connection to the large > black population there; and Delaware is of course as far south as W. Va.) > Umm that is like saying a dog has five legs if we count a tail as a leg. Boy, we are really proving my point about this being idle chit-chat. It is hard to imagine this leading to anything substantive. I'm participating because I'm too sleepy to do anything that requires thought, but unable to sleep. I think I'm going to put down the keyboard and try, though. > was FDR and Henry Wallace. > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Breaking News Alert >> > The New York Times >> > Saturday, August 11, 2012 -- 7:16 AM EDT >> > ----- >> > >> > Mitt Romney Names Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as His Running >> Mate >> > Mitt Romney has chosen Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to be >> his >> > running mate and will introduce him on Saturday morning in Norfolk, >> Va., the >> > campaign said, a selection that shakes up the presidential race and >> presents >> > a Republican ticket that offers a sharp choice for voters in November. >> > >> > The announcement comes at the start of four-day tour through four >> critical >> > battleground states, with Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan poised to travel >> together. >> > >> > “Mitt’s choice for VP is Paul Ryan,” an announcement on the campaign’s >> > mobile phone application said Saturday morning.> Read More: >> > http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na >> > Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company >> -- >> Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you >> should at least know the nature of that evil. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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