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Rule 5 Sunday: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Having wasted most of my Sunday (listening to baseball and rereading the Civil War novels of Newt and William Forstchen), it is now time to consider the handiwork of God, as Lewis Grizzard once said before heading down for a tour of Atlanta’s strip clubs.
I am, as usual, obliged to remind the Loyal Readers that while most of the links to follow are quite tasteful and artistic, others are Not Safe For Work, and clicking on them could lead to a serious contamination of your purity of essence, among other unfortunate eventualities. On with the linkagery!


Emboldened by her runaway successes last week in exploring the new frontier of Olympic Rule 5, EBL devotes her attentions this week to Dutch field hockey babes. Unfortunately, she also sent a link about the former Larry Wachowski.  In other news, we learn from the Rio Norte Line that Jorgie Porter has been named the hottest girl in UK soaps, and that the Femen Olympic protest was not a contender. Valley of the Shadow rattles the tip jar with the aid of Goth songstress Patricia Morrison, of The Damned and Sisters of Mercy. Reaganite Republican offers an installment in the Know Your Enemy series, spotlighting Nork Traffic Babes From Pyongyang. IMNSHO offers Rule 5 Friday, and Randy’s Roundtable this week is all about the Katy Perry. First Street Journal’s ongoing salute to our women in uniform continues this week with some swabbies.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Arianny Celeste; his vintage babe is Elaine Stewart, and of course there’s Sex in Advertising! Dustbury has an unusually pop duo this week with J-Lo and Ginger Spice, and Three Beers Later has some summer games of a non-Olympic variety. At the Camp of the Saints (where all Rule 5 comes with free waffle fries), it’s Shay Maria, Kayla Harrison, Natasa Malbasa, and the American Women’s Olympic Volleyball Team.


A View From The Beach brings us The Women Of Warehouse 13, asks Should Women Be Doctors?(with Olivia Wilde), maintains an Ongoing Olympic Babes & Links Page, Lady Gaga’s “Naked Tweet”, the obligatory cave girl post with bonus rat cuisine, and the observation that Kafka Was An Optimist.


El Opinador Compulsivo, celebrating his recent escape from Hugoslavia (a/k/a The Bolivarian Silliness of Venezuela), sends us many tasty links, including Betanie Badertscher, una moza muy buena, Apotheosis Now (Rule 5 Version) in Quebec, Romney supporter Jenna Jameson, a member of Brazil’s Olympic volleyball team, Heather Vandeven, and the mandatory “at the beach” post. Bonus: scenes from the class struggle in Caracas.


Soylent Green starts with sunrise succulence, continues with the Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation, Spassfabrik Doggie Days, a welcome to Chilean Go(oglers), Snoochita Baby!, evening awesome, Corsetcare 3DDD, Saturday Sunny, and a repost of Valentina Because Most Of You Missed It The First Time.


DaleyGator’s Daley Babes this week include Brittany Dailey, Anna Konno, Kadie Ann Johns (leading a Rule 5 Trek), Candice Swanepoel (and her breasts), Janina Gavankar, Nana Tanimura, Tiara Styles, and Devon Stiles; also, a special “Nothing Beats A Great Butt” Edition and coverage of the Bob Belvedere/Stacy McCain Water Polo Nekkidness Scandal.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday will be due on Saturday, August 11 at the
Rule 5 Wombat mailbox.

Category: Rule 5

‘It’s Pretty Much a Hate Crime’ — Seven Reported Dead in Sikh Temple Shooting UPDATE: Act of ‘Domestic Terrorism’ UPDATE: Liberals Blame Bachmann UPDATE: Report Says Shooter ‘Had Just Broken Up With His Girlfriend’

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 48 Comments

While we do not yet have definite information on the identity of a man who went on a shooting rampage in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, one worshipper at the Sikh Temple summarized the situation pretty bluntly:

One of the temple’s committee members, Ven Boba Ri, said that based on communication with people inside the temple, the shooter was a white male in his 30s.
“We have no idea,” he said of the motive. “It’s pretty much a hate crime. It’s not an insider.”
According to Ri, the man started shooting after he walked up to a priest who was standing outside, and shot him.
Then he went inside and started shooting.

UPDATE: There will reportedly be a press conference at 5 p.m. ET (4 p.m. in Milwaukee). Jazz Shaw at Hot Air was reporting the story as it broke, and you can see from his updates how confusing these stories tend to be in the first few hours. There are reports that a police officer was badly wounded in a gun battle that took down the shooter.

UPDATE II: Donald Douglas was also on this story early.

UPDATE III: “We do not have a lot of answers right now,” a police spokesman said, beginning he press conference.

Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said that the “heroic actions” of his department’s officers “stopped a tragic event that could have been a lot worse.” Chief Edwards said the FBI will be handling the investigation of a crime that is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism.

UPDATE IV: Chief Edwards did not identify the shooter. We have the report of the temple official that the gunman was a white male in his 30s, and the fact that the FBI is investigating the crime as “a domestic terrorist incident,” as Chief Edwards called it, would seem to narrow down the motive a good bit.

There are reports that some people on Twitter are in a hurry to blame this crime on Republicans, as if “let’s go kill some Sikhs” were a plank in the GOP platform, and as if the murder of innocents had no meaning except as an opportunity to play politics.

Linked by The Mr. G Guy — thanks!

UPDATE V: Statement from Mitt Romney:

“Ann and I extend our thoughts and prayers to the victims of today’s shooting in Wisconsin. This was a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the entire Oak Creek Sikh community. We join Americans everywhere in mourning those who lost their lives and in prayer for healing in the difficult days ahead.”

So, apparently, shooting innocent Sikhs is not endorsed by Republicans. This news may be a traumatic shock to certain liberals on Twitter, who are in need of psychological counseling.

UPDATE VI: The superior power of Liberal Logic™ enables Twitter users to identify the suspect: Michele Bachmann did it!

Why didn’t the FBI figure this out first? It was so obvious, when Bachmann ran for president with the slogan, “Go Shoot Some Sikhs.”

UPDATE VII: Here’s an important clue:

CUDAHY, Wis. — WISN 12 News has learned that police and FBI agents descended upon a Cudahy neighborhood late Sunday afternoon.
Crews report a police presence in the 3700 block of East Holmes Avenue near Packard Avenue.
Officials are not yet commenting on the situation in Cudahy or what may have prompted the police and FBI response.

We have no evidence that Michele Bachmann recently moved to Cudahy, but according to Liberal Logic™ that doesn’t mean it’s not her fault.

UPDATE VIII: More on the Cudahy situation:

Shortly after 5 p.m. [i.e., 6 p.m. ET], neighbors said a team of law enforcement officers, including from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, had entered a home in Cudahy.
Police have cordoned off the 3700 block of E. Holmes Ave., just south of downtown Cudahy. A large contingent of law enforcement and fire department vehicles are in the vicinity of what is described as a single family house on the south side of the street. It’s a tree-lined residential neighborhood of single-family homes with some duplexes sprinkled in.
It was unclear whose home it is and how the search may be related to the shooting itself.

Permit me to restate the obvious: We don’t yet know who the shooter was. We don’t know his motive, or his political affiliations.

We have the report of a witness who says it was a white male in his 30s, and we know that the FBI is treating the case as an act of domestic terrorism. This obviously suggests some sort of hateful attitude toward Sikhs, or perhaps a more generalized sort of xenophobia, but until we at least have the name of the shooter, we can’t actually know anything about his motives.

It would not be necessary to state something so obvious, were it not for the fact that those endowed with Liberal Logic™ keep telling us they know exactly what inspired this crime: Michele Bachmann called for an investigation of reports that the Muslim Brotherhood is influencing State Department policy and therefore — as a direct result of Bachmann’s investigation — this guy went on a shooting spree at a Sikh Temple.

Does that make sense to you? No, because you are just a stupid conservative, and therefore don’t have Liberal Logic™ which confers psychic powers on anyone who votes Democrat.

UPDATE IX: Linked by The Lonely Conservative who says:

My prayers and condolences go out to the victims of this terrible crime.

Amen.

UPDATE X: Let’s not jump to conclusions, because it’s a secondhand source, but Jessica McBride of The Patch says she’s interviewed the mother of the gunman’s landlord:

The woman said she is “completely freaked out” and that she believes her son found the man as a renter for his home in the 3700 block of E. Holmes Avenue “through an ad.”
“He lived with my son for three weeks, then the house across the street became empty, and he moved there,” she said.
Her son owns both houses, so he remained the man’s landlord, she said.
She said that she doesn’t know much about the man, other than his first name . . .
“He was quiet. He worked second shift,” she said of the alleged shooter, who has not been named by authorities. “They (her son and the shooter) both worked a lot, so they never got to see each other.”
She said she remembered the man had just broken up with his girlfriend because “he mentioned that to my son. Then he wanted to move on his own. So he moved to the duplex across the street.”

Again: Let’s be cautious, and not jump to any conclusions based on this one report. More information will be available soon enough.

UPDATE XI: More details emerge on the killer.

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

You Had Me at ‘Boobs’

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 23 Comments

I protest the inherent unfairness of sending me an e-mail with the subject line, “The Big Boob Conundrum (aka ‘Breasts of Mass Destruction’)“:

Given that the average amount of milk produced by a lactating mother (850 ml/day) is well over 16 ounces (473.2 ml), those 38DDDs are “containers” which clearly violate your Big Gulp edict (breast milk is sweet, and since it’s not alcoholic, that technically makes it a “soft” drink).

She’s got a point: Mayor Bloomberg is a gigantic boob, but I usually try to ignore gigantic boobs, because it’s not polite to stare.

Stop staring at Mayor Bloomberg you sick freaks!

Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Hey Porter

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

… And the Pulitzer Prize for Recycling Second-Hand Rumors From HuffPo …

I Love The Smell Of #ChickFilA At Noon. It Smells Like. . .Liberty

Harry Reid’s Financial McCarthyism: ‘I Don’t Think the Burden Should Be on Me’

Slander on the Senate Floor: Harry Reid Repeats Romney Tax Accusation

Tax Cuts Are Not ‘Spending’

Will the Last Democrat Leaving Missouri Please Turn Out the Lights?

#YouDidntBuildThat But You Still Went There (Sarah Palin Edition)

FMJRA 2.0: Sign Of The Times

Florida: The Creepy State

Commie Punks Protest Olympics

Paul Krugman Couldn’t Manage A Paper Route. Who In Their Right Mind Would Nominate Him For Fed Chair?

Did University of Colorado ‘Student Mental Health Service’ Director Blow It?

The Olympic Princess Fantasy

Tina Brown’s Bankrupt Magazine Newsweek Calls Mitt Romney a ‘Wimp’

Why Is Fauquier County, Virginia, Waging War Against Small Farmers?

‘Knock Three Times On The Ceiling If You Want Woobie. . .’

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Ninety-Nine Days Until November 6

Is Anyone Surprised by This News?

Rule 5 Monday

USA! USA! USA!

If Obama’s Lost the Secular Humanists …

The Times, They Are A-Faking

The GOP School of Media Relations

DNC Endorses State-Sanctioned Sodomy

There Are Still 5 A’s in ‘RAAAAACISM!’

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.01.12

Just Another Random Coincidence: Bomb Threat Shuts Down W. Va. Chick-fil-A

Massively Indebted, Budgetless Government Decides To Let The Taxes Ride With The Spending

Tea Party Protest In Support Of Virginia Farmer Over Fauquier County Zoning

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.03.12 (CENTRAL TIME)

Keep Your Site Patched And Your Pimp Hand Strong

Kayla Harrison: ‘This Is My Day. This Is My Purpose. I’m Not Afraid to Win.’

Obamanomics: Good News and Bad News

Tennessee Democrat Party Denounces Democrat Senate Candidate

This week’s top linkers:

  1. Hogewash (11)
  2. EBL (9) (some links disqualified due to Olympic Games regulations)
  3. (tied) Lonely Conservative and Daily Pundit (8)
  4. The Camp of the Saints (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Please submit your links for next week’s FMJRA to me no later than Friday (and in no more than two e-mails, please, for I am easily confused) August 10.

Category: FMJRA Award

Why ‘Moderate Islam’ Is Doomed

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 19 Comments

Moderation is not a fighting creed. Voices of compromise and tolerance can never prevail in a culture that permits militant radicals to resort to intimidation and violence to achieve their ends. David Herzenhorn of the New York Times reports a brutal lesson from Russia:

MOSCOW — A self-described guerrilla fighter urging strict adherence to Islamic law has claimed responsibility for the killing last month of one Muslim leader and the attempted murder of another, in Tatarstan, a region in central Russia that prides itself on a tradition of religious tolerance.
“On July 19, 2012, on my orders an operation was conducted against the enemies of Allah,” the guerrilla fighter, who identified himself as Muhammad, emir of the mujahedeen of Tatarstan, said in a video posted on an Islamist Internet site that focuses on the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region, including Chechnya.
In the video, he is shown sitting in the woods, with an automatic rifle propped against one knee. He specifically named the victims of the attack last month: Valiulla Yakupov, the cleric in charge of Islamic education in Tatarstan, who was shot and killed outside his home in Kazan, the regional capital; and Ildus Faizov, the chief mufti in the region, who survived a car-bomb attack less than an hour later.
“All praise Allah,” the jihadist, Muhammad, said in the video. “We believe the operation was a success.” He also warned of further violence against Muslim leaders who do not adhere to Shariah, the strict legal code of Islam based on the Koran.
“If any of the imams do not want or cannot carry out the points established by Shariah, they should leave their posts,” he said. “That way, you will be protected from the mujahedeen.”

(Via Memeorandum.) It is useless, as a counter-argument, to point out that the vast majority of Muslims are not violent terrorists, when any who do not share the ideology of the radicals are denounced as “the enemies of Allah” and regarded as acceptable targets for assassination.

In all likelihood, the clerics targeted by “the emir of the mujahedeen” shared their killer’s ultimate goal — the Islamicization of Russia — but were killed because they did not endorse his proposed means of achieving that goal, i.e., an immediate violent uprising. And the profoundly troubling aspect of this, as any objective student of Islamic history must agree, is that the assassin’s co-religionists can scarcely claim that his acts are incompatible with their faith. Islam’s founder was a warrior, who spread his beliefs by the sword, and the Prophet’s successors took up that sword to expand their religious dominion by violent conquest. No matter how sincerely “fundamentalist” a Muslim leader may be, he is vulnerable to the accusation of apostasy if he rejects violent jihad as a means of achieving worldwide Islamic supremacy.

It has become unfortunately fashionable in the West, even among some soi-dissant conservatives, to ignore this unfortunate reality and to denounce as advocates of “Islamophobia” anyone who dares call attention to the dangerous truth about radical Islam.

Witness how the Left greeted Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in Stockholm and witness, alas, how little notice conservatives give to the battle that Geller and Spencer have so courageously fought.

Hundreds turn out to hear American conservatives speak in Sweden, they are greeted with vitriolic hate by Swedish leftists and — despite the genuinely newsworthy nature of this occasion — where is the Army of Breitbarts to cheer on the conservative heroes?

Robert Spencer mocks the idea that violent Islamic jihadists misunderstand their own religion. His good humor disproves the assertions of his critics that Spencer is a grim hateful fanatic, although Spencer is nevertheless serious about the grim hateful fanaticism of his antagonists, both among the radical jihadists and the radical leftists who side with “the emir of the mujahedeen” against the West.

The Left would have you believe that the danger free people face is not from radical Islam, but from “extremists” like Geller and Spencer. In fact, the danger is from those foolish enough to think that the war against “the enemies of Allah,” which brings death to Muslims in faraway Tatarstan, has ceased to be a danger to America, merely because the jihadis have not recently committed any headline-grabbing terrorist atrocities here. Leftists dishonestly inflame suspicion of the Tea Party, attempting to blame them for the Aurora massacre. (Tucson killer Jared Loughner will plead guilty for his crimes, although the liberal media already convicted Sarah Palin.) Meanwhile, the menace of Islamic extremism remains, waging a worldwide war that we seldom seem to notice anymore.

We are seeing a re-enactment of a familiar theme: The confusion caused by those who insist that we should not fear our enemy, but rather fear those who warn against the enemy. In England during the ’30s, the advocates of appeasement insisted that Churchill was a greater danger than Hitler. More recently, during the Cold War, there were those who claimed that anti-Communist “extremists” like Ronald Reagan were a greater danger than the Communists themselves. And now we find that many fools have been persuaded by those who say that “Islamophobia” is a greater danger than Islam.

Will we be deceived? I am not, although I seldom write on this topic, on which others have far more expertise. My accustomed silence, however, should not be confused with neutrality or indifference. In the aftermath of 9/11, many Americans wrung their hands in perplexity, thinking that somehow our nation had brought this evil upon ourselves.

The liberals asked, “Why do they hate us?” And the eloquent answer came from a Lebanese woman, Brigitte Gabriel: Because They Hate.

There is no safety in cowardly silence. No one deserves to be the victim of terrorism, and the killers alone are responsible for their crimes. Yet we have a duty to defend the innocent against evil and, if we fail in that duty, our failure carried its own burden of guilt.

Those who have the courage to speak out against the danger — including not only Geller and Spencer, but also such witnesses as Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali — deserve our support. We cannot rely on “moderate Muslims” to restrain the danger, because if proponents of radical Islam cannot terrorize the moderate “enemies of Allah” into silence, they will kill them. How many more “moderates” will have to die before we admit the radical truth?

 





 

Category: Atlas Shrugs, Culture, Islam, Russia, Sweden, Terrorism

Caroline Glick Offers A Sane View Of The Middle East

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Glick just rips this administration’s preference for posture over policy.

Here and you thought Caroline was just about laughs.

via American Power

Category: Egypt, Israel

Harry Reid … Boxer?

Posted on | August 5, 2012 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

I saw this on Hot Air

According to a source familiar with Reid’s thinking, the majority leader, a former boxer, considers himself a political street fighter now

A bit of Wikipedia takes you to LVRJ:

Reid was not born into a Mormon family and did not join the church until he was a student at Utah State University in Logan. After a rough and tumble upbringing in the mining town of Searchlight, Reid became an amateur boxer and has acknowledged getting “called out” from bars in his youth.
“I am, by nature, somebody that … I was raised where you settled your differences physically, and I still have a little of that in me and I’m fighting that all the time. I don’t want to be mean to people,” he said.

Excuse me, but:

Ha ha ha ha!

Dingius Maximus, suited for action

We need far more evidence than a story by Tony Batt in a friendly fish wrapper to put some viagra in Harry’s limp tale. If that story sucked any more, it would be. . .a literary biography, wherein Harry Reid was born behind the Iron Curtain, the son of a freedom fighter, whose father died protecting him and his laboring mother from Commies. Mom snuffs it, too, leaving Harry to be raised by wolves. Then he wanders southeast, in the ruins of the WWII Balkans, barely missing a chance to wax a Nazi sympathizer whose name sounds like ‘morose’.

Hopping on a merchant vessel in his late teens, Reid comes to America, learning English from Isaac Asimov novels. The Foundation Trilogy, of course fires his imagination, as a Progressively perfected humanity seems a swell idea. He drifts west, finagles his way through school, launches a political career, and the rest is indistinguishable from an unflushed toilet.

Oh, no, wait: boxer. I get it. Not the pugilist kind, but:

English could be the language of ambiguity, but maybe not.

This post is not intentionally an insult to the Silver State. It’s just that when I think of amateur Congressional boxers, I think of my bottle-hitting Congress-tool, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran.

More at The Lonely Conservative, where we find out how the Dingy One takes care of ‘the family’. I wonder how much honest, simple investigative journalism it will take to uncover enough ethically dodgy crap in Reid’s past to make resignation seem attractive to the fellow.

I disagree with Bill Quick here. Not to be a Harry Reid apologist even slightly, Ethics Alarms has the right of it. What Jerry Sandusky did was unspeakable; let it therefore remain unspoken, unless delivering a subpoena for similar offenses. The Left denies Truth and opts for nihilism. Let the Lefties destroy their souls without choosing to follow, say I.

While not offering a full theory of “Good Clean Mockery” or claiming any authority over the idea, some of my internal editorial principles are:

  • Leave peoples’ names alone. By drawing a line there, I help myself to remember that even Harry Reid has a heart, albeit stone.
  • No potty mouth. The internet is full of little Quentin Tarantinos without me adding to that. The Lord sees all, as might someone from church.
  • Let the unspeakable remain unspoken. Sexuality is a private matter. If you’re going to make these kinds of accusations against Harry Reid, why not let it all hang out at the Chick-Fil-A with someone of the same gender? Pecca fortiter! No? Me neither.
  • Opt for a laugh. As I’ve tried to do in this post.

Update: linked by Hogewash

Category: Democrats, Nevada

GIVE US RYAN!

Posted on | August 4, 2012 | 119 Comments

This is an emergency post. Driving back from the AFP Defending the Dream Summit in D.C., I pulled off the freeway and logged on at a Burger King to get this online as quickly as possible: Mitt Romney must choose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential nominee, period.

There is no time now to fully explain the emergency nature of this post, but let me quickly make three points:

  1. My hatred of media “veepstakes” speculation is well-known. When I turn on the TV and see a bunch of pundits talking about who might get the vice-presidential nomination, I turn the channel. It’s a bunch of useless noise, and I can’t stand to watch it. Nevertheless, a sudden crisis makes it imperative that I speak out.
  2. My first choice — and what I think was the most obvious choice — was Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. However, the word among Republican sources is that there were problems with Rubio in terms of vetting. Loath as I am to repeat this, I’ve heard talk that because Rubio is the son of immigrants, there is concern that this might cost Republicans the “Birther” vote. Crazy? Yeah. But whatever the basis for the objections, the general belief is that there is indeed some sort of vetting issue. And so the smart money says that, although Rubio is still officially on the “short list,” he’s unlikely to be the final choice.
  3. The emergency? Two words: Tim Pawlenty.

Friday night, I was talking to some top activists at the AFP summit and one of them assured me that the word among Minnesota Republicans is that T-Paw is at the top of Romney’s VP list, all but guaranteed to be the running mate. Do I have to explain why this shocked me?

So shocked was I, in fact, that I refused to believe it. Certainly, the smart guys at Team Mitt could see the obvious arguments against T-Paw. But then Saturday, I talked to some well-informed D.C.-based operatives and they, too, said they’d heard that Pawlenty was top of the list.

Now I was truly concerned. Dear God, not T-Paw!

Driving home, this worry weighed heavily on my thoughts, and so I called a well-connected and experienced conservative journalist to talk about it — and he’d heard the same basic thing: Pawlenty might already have the VP spot locked up, said my friend, who happens to be a supporter of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. According to my friend, the word is that T-Paw is at the top of the list, with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman the nearest rival. And this is even worse news. While I like Portman OK, he’s a Bush guy, and we don’t need any ghosts of the Bush administration haunting the GOP in 2012.

So if Rubio has been more or less eliminated from consideration, as my sources suggest, we’ve got to do something to stop this crazy talk about a Romney-Pawlenty ticket. You can’t beat somebody with nobody, and of the remaining guys on the short list, Paul Ryan is the obvious pick.

He’s an Irish Catholic from the Midwest, a hero of deficit hawks, young and handsome, and pre-approved by Bill Kristol, who deems Ryan “the Republican party’s intellectual leader.”

This is, I repeat, an emergency, because Kristol says Mitt’s VP pick could be announced as early as Wednesday, or more likely Aug. 13-15. So if conservatives are going to push back against an ill-advised choice of Pawlenty, we’ve got to start pushing now, and pushing hard as hell.

Ali Akbar started a hashtag, #GiveUsRyan, so you can tell @MittRomney you want @RepPaulRyan as VP. Make it happen!

UPDATE: Wow! Bobby Jindal, himself a short-list candidate for VP, praises Paul Ryan at the Red State Gathering. Momentum!

UPDATE II: Twitchy has more from the Red State Gathering:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, himself often mentioned as a top-tier candidate for vice president, today recommended Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan for the job.
Speaking this afternoon at RedState Gathering 2012 in Jacksonville, Fla., Jindal’s message of responsible spending and education reform had plenty of attendees sold on him as the vice presidential candidate. . . .
Asked by Breitbart’s Larry O’Connor his pick for vice president, though, Jindal named Ryan as his favorite of “a lot of great choices.” “Paul Ryan has been specific, bold and courageous in his budget plans,” said Jindal.

Linked by Jackie Wellfonder and the Daley Gator — thanks!

 


Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Wisconsin
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