When GOP strategist Kristen Soltis suggested that Paul Ryan be named person of the year, Bill O’Reilly responded by mocking her and saying Ryan couldn’t even carry his own state.
Here is the video from Media Matters:
Soltis argued for Ryan by saying that he wasn’t that big of a deal in the presidential race, but, “He is the one guy here in the US who’s really trying to put together ideas for how we solve these long term fiscal problems that countries around the world are facing. How are we going to deal with these long term entitlements?”
This was too much BS for even Bill O’Reilly to handle. In a moment of angry white man blames the failed VP candidate lucidity, Bill-O said, “Ryan hasn’t accomplished it yet. If Ryan were to accomplish the things that he wants to accomplish. Bring the federal budget under control and get the two parties together to get a responsible budget then he would without a doubt be person of the year, but he hasn’t. He couldn’t. He couldn’t even carry his state. Kristen, he couldn’t even carry his state.”
Soltis said Ryan shouldn’t be blamed for not carrying Wisconsin, and O’Reilly said that’s why he was on the ticket. They needed a state like Wisconsin.
This little exchange perfectly demonstrated the Republican Party’s problem. They actually have strategists like Kristen Soltis, who are living in a fantasy land where the crushing defeat of the Romney/Ryan ticket had nothing to do with Paul Ryan. In fact, Ryan should be nominated for person of the year. Hell, Mitt Romney almost became president. He apparently didn’t lose because of his ideas either. So why don’t we have co-persons of the year and award it to both Romney and Ryan.
Despite being overwhelmingly rejected, most Republicans still think that their policies aren’t the problem.
The Republican delusion is running so deep that Bill O’Reilly may be more in touch with post election reality than the people who are paid to guide and run GOP campaigns.
This little fact goes a long way towards explaining why Mitt Romney and so many of the members of his own party thought they were on their way to a landslide victory when anyone with a set of eyes could see momentum building towards an Obama win.
Start printing those Ryan 2016 bumper stickers, because it looks Republicans have learned absolutely nothing from the 2012 election.
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D. W. Skinner
Nov. 28th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
The Republicans are not the people you want to follow if you’re lost in the woods.
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Colleen
Nov. 28th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
LOL what a joke. Jerk of the year is more like it.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 28th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Reminds me of a certain Sean Hannity who had an epiphany 5 minutes after the election. He now loves Brown skinned people.
Ryan should have come out and said his plan was garbage just like Hannity changed his mind. NO one like Ryans plan. Ryan couldnt carry his own state becuase no one wanted what he had
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mjh
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 12:57 am
Paul Ryan — a failed VP candidate who couldn’t carry his own state — should be named Person of the Year.
This is laughingly reminiscent of 2007, when, in the wake of Al Gore’s selection as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, some rightwingnut noisemakers suggested (in all seriousness) that the winner of the Peace Prize should have been . . . George W. Bush.
I’m not sure what the Nobel Committee’s criteria for selecting the Peace Prize winner is — but I’m pretty sure STARTING TWO PREEMPTIVE WARS against nations that didn’t attack the US isn’t one of them.
More proof that rightwingnuts have no concept of irony.
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SickupandFed
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 3:00 am
The stupid, it burns.
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Sally
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 5:38 am
Wow. But then, no one thinks GOP women have that many brain cells, especially GOP men, who don’t think with their own tiny brains anyway. They rely on a different body part.
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SinghX
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 8:13 am
Ah yesh…”The Force” runs deep on Planet Foxnews! Their loyalty to their fearful leaders remain…
These talking heads remind me of an episode of “Arrested Development” when Michal Jr videoed himself in the family garage flaying around, bouncing off the walls swinging a plastic “Light Saber” until he fell into a bunch of stuff…
Ah yesh, the proud and noble tribe of Fox who, in defeat, show the world their grace and humility. We’re so very lucky to have them around…
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sandppppr
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
…and Karl Rove and Kristen Stoltis will lead the GOP to the promised land??????
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Anne
Dec. 1st, 2012 at 10:40 am
Both Weathervane Willard and Lyin’Ryan deserve the Booby Prize for having run a campaign that was uniquely dishonest, gaffe-prone, tone-deaf, and antagonistic to a large number of voting blocs. They should share this prize with FOX Noise as well as “operatives” like Karl Rove and the many billionaires that tried to buy the election for Willard. I look at Ryan with his vacuous eyes that indicate the lights are on but no one’s home, and find the idea of honoring him hilarious. The Romney-Ryan team deserved to lose and lose badly, because they were offering the very same ideas that drove this country to the recession that it’s still climbing out of.
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