PAUL RYAN: HOW DARE THOSE AFRICAN- AND HISPANIC-AMERICANS VOTE!

[kpete]

PAUL RYAN: HOW DARE THOSE AFRICAN- AND HISPANIC-AMERICANS VOTE!

Igor Volsky watches the train wreck:

In his first interview since losing the election, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wouldn’t admit that voters rejected his economic vision and instead chalked up President Obama’s victory to a large turnout of the “urban vote.” “I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare, we clearly didn’t lose it on those issues,” Ryan to local station WISC-TV. “I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race.”

But Ryan’s post-election analysis contrasts sharply with his view of the race before Election Day. Throughout the campaign, Ryan — who was selected for the ticket because of his budget plan — insisted that the race presented voters with a “choice” between two different economic paths for the nation and repeatedly tried to sell the merits of his proposal on the stump. Republican lawmakers bragged that should the GOP ticket win, “they can justly claim a mandate” to push through Ryan’s initiatives...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/13/1178921/paul-ryan-i-didnt-lose-because-of-the-issues-i-lost-because-of-the-urban-vote/

So now it is unfair and unexpected for "urban" voters--that is, African- and Hispanic-Americans--to have turnout levels that are even within shouting distance of white Republican turnout levels?

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/11/paul-ryan-how-dare-those-african-and-hispanic-americans-vote.html

[Flashmann]

1. Once an asshat.......

Always a cretin......

[sinkingfeeling]

2. He could have just said, "We really thought our efforts to suppress the vote

would work."

[russspeakeasy]

8. You just said it all.

[Scuba]

3. Ryan's future was made clear when Romney hid him for the last few weeks of the election period.

[1-Old-Man]

4. What they lost on was every issue they spoke about from the campaign stump.

And they were dam sure talking about Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security too, no matter how hard they tried to evade questions about the programs there was that pesky "budget" document that Ryan had authored. That is the stuff they lost on, that is the plan the people of the country have rejected, that is the stuff of waste bins, that is the refuse of a confused political system.

[Angry Dragon]

5. He should go into the bathroom if he is going to take a shit

[Blue4Texas]

6. What a snob (paraphrasing Lol)

[Arugula Latte]

7. In other words, the rejection of his position didn't count because the voters

who made it lose weren't white.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. So ...

the gop didn't lose on the issues; they lost because a large segment of the populous came out to vote against the gop's (non) plans on the issues.

Oh that's right ... only white men vote based on the issues; everyone else votes on the race of the candidate/on a purely partisan-blinded basis/for any and every other non-policy based reason. My bad ... Please proceed, Mr. ryan.

[workinclasszero]

10. Right....the "urban vote" is what did it, eh Ryan? (racist dog whistle alert)

I wish the damn republicans would just drop the BS and let their hatred of blacks, Latinos and most women just come out front and center.

Anti american bastards. Why do the republicans hate America?

[dragonlady]

11. He thinks "urban" voters don't vote based on policy preferences

They are unlike his supporters, who carefully weigh the candidates' positions on the issues to make their decision (nothing so crass as race influences his voters).

[Springslips]

19. Correct.

Or what he saying is that minority opinions on Medicare doesn't count. He is saying that whites voted for him and therefor his point of view won--that they lost the election on a technicality that insignificant urban voters had a high turnout. That's Ryan's attitude right there. Sickening.

[SweetieD]

12. Translation: Black people aren't real Americans and don't speak for America /eom.

[Patiod]

13. They shouldn't count as much as those from the "heartland"

I've told this story before on DU: an right-wing Evangelical Christian acquaintance biked across the country.He told me he was surprised that "most of the people in the US live in the countryside", and I said "Bill, most of the people live in cities - but most of the LAND in the US is countryside". So we've already established that he's clueless.

He then went on to say "The people out in the country were so great. I can't believe their vote counts as much as some of those urban voters."

I'll admit to being speechless, but I offered him the chance to walk that comment back. "Are you implying that rural people should have more right to vote than city people?" He said he did mean that.

Wow. Just wow.

[Johonny]

15. that's what it sounds like

If you rejected Ryan's message, you aren't a real American.

[noiretextatique]

21. katrina really drove that point home

black people aren't *really* citizens of the USA.

[Enrique]

22. absolutely

a bunch of people are saying this and they don't realize how obvious it is. Keep talking, assholes.

[RevStPatrick]

14. Urban voter's votes should count as 3/5 of a vote.

Right Mr. Ryan?

Even for me, a guy who lives in the inner city and is as white and as Irish as you are.

RIGHT MR. RYAN????

[EC]

16. He just can't believe that those "urban" voters were voting

against his policies. They just vote out of loyalty or something...policy can't be why they vote because they're not educated enough about the policies to know what they are voting for. Is that how you see it Paul?

[hifiguy]

17. This fknuts really needs to disappear back under his rock

and go back to humping the dessicated corpse of Ayn Rand. What an assklown.

[forestpath]

18. I'm a suburban voter and he can kiss my lily-white ass.

[irisblue]

20. whatta JERK!!!

seems to be my first thought anytime I hear that twits name on TV, radio or read it. Automatically. Now, I guess I'll start vote supressing jerk....and oh yeah....PUTZ!