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Cheers
So while financiers may cheer Mr. Ryan’s pro-market policies, they may want to reassess just what those policies mean for their businesses. (Andrew Ross Sorkin, NYT, 8/13/2012)

Contributions from Wall Streeters to Obama's re-election coffers are down, what with the non-stop demonization and all. Along comes the helpful New York Times to warn Wall Street that Ryan may not be the savior that they hope for. Ryan, who if elected would become, not the president, but the vice-president.

Push Back
Four years ago, John Brooks cast his ballot for Barack Obama, becoming one of the voters won over by his promise for changing Washington. This time, he had been undecided, but he said Mitt Romney made his decision easier by placing Representative Paul D. Ryan on the Republican ticket.

The choice pushed him back to President Obama, said Mr. Brooks, 43, a sales manager at a Chevrolet dealership, who said that until now he had thought Mr. Romney was really a moderate, and he had been open to voting for him before he picked a running mate whose views on the budget he found extreme.

The storyline that The New York Times has been asked to advance by the Obama campaign is this: people who might have considered voting for Romney are now deciding for Obama after all because Paul Ryan is too "extreme." And so they "uncover" one of these people and write the story. But then they end with this: 

Mr. Brooks, the Iowa man who had counted himself in that category, said his mind was made up before Mr. Obama unexpectedly stopped by his table at the Pump Haus restaurant in downtown Cedar Falls on Tuesday. (NYT, 8/15/2012)

In the Liberal media decoding world that RedStateVT occupies, we call this "the tell." Yes, just coincidentally Obama shows up at the table of someone who wasn't going to support him, but has changed his mind. 

Stages
A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives. (NYT, 8/15/2012)

So Democrat governor, senator, bundler and power broker Corzine is going to walk. And friends wonder why we are cynical...

No Problema
Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Monday the campaign had “no problem” with Vice President Joe Biden’s controversial “chains” comment earlier Monday. (Washington Free Beacon, 8/15/2012)

Democrats also have "no problem" with Harry Reid's spurious allegation that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for ten years nor with Obama's Super PAC ad accusing Romney of complicity in murder. Welcome to the modern Democrat party.

Toxic Running Mate (The Washington Post's headline for E.J. Dionne's 8/15/2012 column)
If you thought Dionne was commenting on Joe "Punchline" Biden you are wrong!!!