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What could have possessed the Romney campaign to allow its No. 2 to recite a canned story about an auto accident in a debate with a man who lost his wife and daughter to such a tragedy?
Paul Ryan did.
And he veered out of his way to do it.
It came right after Vice President Biden noted that Mitt Romney had been against rescuing the auto industry, not to mention distressed homeowners. Biden added, “It shouldn’t be surprising for a guy who says 47 percent of the American people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own lives.”
Ryan’s first words in response seemed to be the start of a defense or at least a rationalization of Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout.
Ryan then jumped from the car industry to a car accident as casually as if the common denominator “car” gave it some kind of sense.
“I was talking to a family in Northborough, Mass., the other day, Sheryl and Mark Nixon,” Ryan said. “Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them. Two of them, Rob and Reed, were paralyzed.”
The story that followed was clearly a canned one that Ryan had come to the debate intending to get in somewhere, no matter how nonsensical the segue.
It seems neither he nor anybody else in the Romney-Ryan campaign stopped to think that it might be inappropriate, considering Biden’s tragedy in 1972.
Ryan made it sound as if he felt compelled to tell him about his running mate’s nobility because Romney was too modest to tell it.
The true story is that the Nixons were on the Glenn Beck show in September. The Nixons told Ryan the story he now brought to the debate as a prepared response to the 47 percent issue...
Biden quietly did a reverse segue to a car wreck not involving the Nixons.
“When I was a little younger than the congressman, my wife was in an accident, killed my daughter and my wife, and my two sons survived,” Biden said.
“I have sat in the homes of many people who’ve gone through what I got through, because the one thing you can give people solace is to know if they know you’ve been through it, that they can make it.”
Biden had responded with grace so uncommon it could only be innate, suggesting that his usual bombast may be at least partly a cover for the hurt that he must still keenly feel four decades later, that had now become so clear in his voice for just a moment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...yan-should-have-avoided-at-the-vp-debate.html
Paul Ryan did.
And he veered out of his way to do it.
It came right after Vice President Biden noted that Mitt Romney had been against rescuing the auto industry, not to mention distressed homeowners. Biden added, “It shouldn’t be surprising for a guy who says 47 percent of the American people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own lives.”
Ryan’s first words in response seemed to be the start of a defense or at least a rationalization of Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout.
Ryan then jumped from the car industry to a car accident as casually as if the common denominator “car” gave it some kind of sense.
“I was talking to a family in Northborough, Mass., the other day, Sheryl and Mark Nixon,” Ryan said. “Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them. Two of them, Rob and Reed, were paralyzed.”
The story that followed was clearly a canned one that Ryan had come to the debate intending to get in somewhere, no matter how nonsensical the segue.
It seems neither he nor anybody else in the Romney-Ryan campaign stopped to think that it might be inappropriate, considering Biden’s tragedy in 1972.
Ryan made it sound as if he felt compelled to tell him about his running mate’s nobility because Romney was too modest to tell it.
The true story is that the Nixons were on the Glenn Beck show in September. The Nixons told Ryan the story he now brought to the debate as a prepared response to the 47 percent issue...
Biden quietly did a reverse segue to a car wreck not involving the Nixons.
“When I was a little younger than the congressman, my wife was in an accident, killed my daughter and my wife, and my two sons survived,” Biden said.
“I have sat in the homes of many people who’ve gone through what I got through, because the one thing you can give people solace is to know if they know you’ve been through it, that they can make it.”
Biden had responded with grace so uncommon it could only be innate, suggesting that his usual bombast may be at least partly a cover for the hurt that he must still keenly feel four decades later, that had now become so clear in his voice for just a moment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...yan-should-have-avoided-at-the-vp-debate.html
