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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:32 AM Sep 2012

Its Gilligan and the Stench

This is the earth. And this is the stench. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth.












Vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has apparently “gone rogue” and is now openly mocking his running mate, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) in front of reporters and staff. Ryan has gone so far as to nickname Romney “The Stench,” and top brass at the Romney campaign have taken to referring to Ryan as “Gilligan.”

It was former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa Craig Robinson who said to the New York Times on Sunday, “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him.”

The remark has been taken up by Paul Ryan as an inside joke on the campaign trail. Politico‘s Roger Simon reported that while Ryan “had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, ‘If Stench calls, take a message’ and ‘Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.’”


Raw Story (http://s.tt/1op63)






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Its Gilligan and the Stench (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Sep 2012 OP
Stinkage is a Republican Family Trait Berlum Sep 2012 #1
2012 Paul Ryan = 2008 Sarah Palin OldDem2012 Sep 2012 #2
That little Stinker. Octafish Sep 2012 #3
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