Romney is a narcissistic shape-shifter. In his run for the presidency - as a right-wing Republican - he has had to flee from every aspect of his past:
- Romney-care in Massachusetts was the virtual blueprint for the dreaded Obamacare which he now vows to repeal.
- The ballyhooed Salt Lake City Olympics turns out to be a $1.4 billion earmark boondoggle on the taxpayers' tab - with untold local graft and special interest draw-downs.
- Bain Capital is a rich-man's Ponzi scheme centered around plundering undervalued companies, loading them with debt and management fees, firing the help, and selling off the pieces.
- And his personal finances are unambiguously so fraught with flimflam, money laundering, and off-shore accounts that they'll never see the light of day in terms of disclosure.
While the ABO (anybody-but Obama) crowd will eat glass and vote for Romney, he has failed to convince the Ron Paul-ers, the Teabaggers, and the Christianists who view the election as a Hobson's Choice. AND these are just the Republican BASE, much less Independents.
The Ryan veep pick is a desperate ploy to energize the Push-Granny-Over-the-Cliff voters and the Wall Street royalists who are licking their chops over the final three BIG tranches of public money: Medicare trust fund, Social Security Trust fund, and Federal pensions.
The up-side is that it will also energize the Dem base at the horror of this preening little fascist NeoCon punk - riding on the coattails of this Mormon oligarch - who has deemed Ryan's budget scheme marvelous - who shills for the 1% and wants to swap Medicare for a discounted coupon-clipping scheme that will let me - at 75 years' old, with diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition - go out and shop the for-profit insurance market for a really keen buy!
And YES it will throw Florida's 29 electoral votes against the wall - where 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries make up the biggest voting bloc. And Romney's flimsy line to haul in another 4.3 million Hispanic Floridians with a Marco Rubio veep pick (who famously lied about his Cuban credentials) has now snapped in two.
ALL IN ALL - I'd say good news for Obama.
