That's all I can figure. I've been eagerly reading all the diaries I can about the Ryan pick, but my time has been severely curtailed. See, I got a new job recently, working in a call center for a company that provides "Medicare C" policies. Medicare hasn't just become the key issue in the national campaign, it's become the only thing that matters in my life. For the next six weeks, I'm going to be training to learn all I can about Medicare, and then I will be out "on the floor" talking to the "customers" and helping them every day.
That's why I can't wrap my mind around Romney's choice. I Just. Don't. Get. It. I'm barely scratching the surface of my education or this job, but I already know enough to know that threatening Medicare is absolutely insane. So I keep running scenarios. How could this ever happen? Perhaps Romney is secretly a Democratic operative, and he wants Obama to win a second term? No, that doesn't make sense, if only because he's already tipped his hand on what he really wants. He's running for POTUS to secure the best interests of his money, and the rest of us could go fuck ourselves. If he was an operative, somebody with very deep pockets would have to be pulling his strings...
Maybe he's got a surprising low IQ? Perhaps he's some sort of idiot savant who is really, really good at making money but is otherwise close to nonfunctional? The idea certainly has its merits, but then shouldn't a person like that be able to better weight risk versus reward? Isn't that an important part of making large sums of money? (I'm assuming, as I've never had a sum larger than $3,000 in my possession).
But something else occurred to me tonight. The only time I've ever seen Romney react to a person with any sense of warmth, as a human might react to a loved one, was in the clips and pictures with Paul Ryan. I think he actually likes Paul Ryan. That's saying something, because I don't even have the impression that he likes Queen Ann, and I doubt he "likes" his kids. But with Ryan he's all smiles. Why? And why would he let that trump Florida? We all know he needs Florida, and yet today, instead of treating her like the Crown Jewel, the Apple of his Greedy Eye, he called off an event in Orlando for no reason at all, and his "I have my own plan" reassurances aren't really reassuring. Or true. He should be kissing so much ass in Florida right now....and he should have never put it in play the way he did.
Then I realized who they reminded me of...
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Committee to end Medicare? I call them the Itty Bitty Tittie Committee because they're a couple of boobs
They're pod brothers, guys! Ryan was never the "bold choice," he was the only choice because this is all part of a plan to take over the world. R & R (Rang & Rodos?) have been biding their time, lying in wait, playing the long game. Okay, granted, they were supposed to be far more successful by the time they put the final stage of the plan into place. Ideally, Romney would have been Senator and Governor and owned all the money in the world. Ryan would have already started financial Armageddon, and the whole country would have been in such a deep clusterfuck that the only people who made it out to vote in November were the ones who could still afford shoes and were brave enough to face the unseasonably harsh cold and blizzard (at least the environmental meltdown is still on track!).
So things didn't exactly go to plan for them, but they're staying the course. Maybe they have no choice. Maybe it's a "do or die" situation. To get my aliens confused, maybe they work for "The Big Giant Head" and he'll be pissed if they fail in their objective. (Rupert Murdoch? Dick Cheney? Brown-haired guy who isn't Steve Doocey?). So really, at this point they have no choice but to forge on ahead, even though nobody is making this easy, the cakewalk election they'd been promised is getting harder every day, and maybe the humans aren't as stupid and gullible as they'd been led to believe.
Or maybe we are? After all, a number of people still seem to believe that R & R are somehow human. If they're not aliens, then they're definitely robots.
Or giant insects in man suits. I, for one, do not welcome our new insect overlords.