Ryan Distancing Himself From Romney?

     It's truly getting painful for Romney now. If this were a fight the humane thing would be to call it. It seems that Ryan is now "going rogue" as Palin did in 2008.

    However, it's not hard to understand why, seeing videos like this one below.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/no-love-from-polls-or-people-for-mitt-romney/2012/09/26/7b6c6b3e-07e7-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

   When you're the Presidential candidate for the US and you have to remind the people at a campaign stop that you're on top of the ticket not your VP, it's clear that the cow has long left the barn. With everyone cheering and chanting "Ryan, Ryan, Ryan..." Romney interjected and coaxed the crowd, "Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan! There you go!"

    Actually it's been reported that the Romney campaign will have him going out a lot more with Ryan in the future. It seems that Romney finds it hard to excite many of the crowds when it's him alone.

    It sounds like Ryan is now taking some advice to heart that he separate himself from the "stench of Romney."

    "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,” Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday.

    "Coming from a resident of Iowa, a state where people are polite even to soybeans, this was a powerful condemnation of the Republican nominee."


     Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html#ixzz27gFuHEj3

     Actually what's notable is that Ryan has now released yet another ad for his House seat-his third one recently. As Delong said, this is puzzling. Shouldn't being on the Presidential ticket be enough exposure? Delong chalked it off to Ryan being clueless, but maybe it suggests that Ryan realizes that being on the Romney ticket is not necessarily the resume booster you'd think.

     "Even before the stench article appeared, there was a strong sign that Ryan was freeing himself from the grips of the Romney campaign. It began after his disastrous appearance on Friday before AARP in New Orleans. Ryan delivered his remarks in the style dictated by his Romney handlers: Stand behind the lectern, read the speech as written and don’t stray from the script."

     "Ryan brought his 78-year-old mother with him and introduced her to the audience, which is usually a sure crowd pleaser."

     "But when Ryan began talking about repealing “Obamacare” because he said it would harm seniors, one woman in the crowd shouted, “Lie!” Another shouted “Liar!” and the crowd booed Ryan lustily."

     "Who boos a guy in front of his 78-year-old mother? Other 78-year-old mothers."

     "That was Friday, and that was the end of Ryan following the game plan. At a certain point, all running mates on failing campaigns feel they must break free from the manacles placed on them by the top of the ticket. Sarah Palin began pursuing her own path once she learned that John McCain was having strategy sessions with his morning bowl of Farina."

      This is becoming an ongoing theme for Republican Presidential candidates. It started in 2008, this one seems to repeating all the same mishaps as McCain.