If he can help get rid of Obama and help get the country back on a sustainable financial footing, we can get someone to paint them for him.

Congressman Ryan is an able practitioner of Arthur Brooks' advice to make moral arguments.

Wow! Gene Wolfe people have come out of the closet on this thread.  I'll bring one of my sons to the Wolfe meeting: he's a major league Wolfe guy.

Now a reference to the great Terry Pratchett from Foxfier. Pratchett is second only to P. G. Wodehouse in generating out-loud laughing while quietly reading.

You're right, Brian. She obviously loves her horse, and the picture shows a spontaneous, very human expression of affection. PETA probably thinks that's bad.

Paul: Very subtle.  I had to go look it up. Take two hydrogen atoms and one sulphur atom and you get hydrogen sulfide, otherwise known as rotten egg gas, which is both stinky and poisonous. Nice description of Warren. I only wish I'd said it.

Let's see. Ann Romney's husband is rich because he earned a lot of money. Ann Romney loves horses. Ann Romney has MS, and finds that riding (and being involved in dressage) helps her MS. So she uses some of the family money to buy, train, and ride horses.

If you have money and you love horses, you buy horses. If you have MS, you have even more reason to do so. 

My wife grew up on a working cattle ranch--they were far from rich, but they had very good horses; it's not just a pastime of the rich. 

So she didn't work (but raised five sons) and she rides horses: if this is the best they can do, we're going to be seeing the MSM picking nits for the next 5 1/2 months.

This isn't exactly sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Next week: Ann crowded into the lunch line in eighth grade. Classmates traumatized.

Mitt shoplifted a candy bar at age five. Store forced to close. Jobs lost.

Two points:

Like you, I'm a mutt; but they do make the best dogs.

Also, I think I'm about 1/32nd Norwegian. Changing my first name to Thorbjorn: I assume there are some Norwegian set-asides in some department of our government.

Why do we need a government program about walking to school? When I was kid (half-century ago) I walked five miles to school, uphill both ways. At least that's the way I remember it.

Mia can play good cop; Allen can lay down the hammer. And don't forget, we've also got Tim Scott of South Carolina. 

One part liberal, one part stupid, one part loud, and one part hubris.

I like him too.

Maggie: I'm very excited. Not only about Mia Love, but the guy she's trying to beat, Jim Matheson, one of the last so-called Blue Dogs, is vulnerable (I'm told his seat is no. 1 on the Republican list of potential turnovers). So she'll receive serious money from the Republican House Political Committee, but--crossing my fingers--we'd love to see people like Paul Ryan, Allen West, and others show up to campaign with her. It's going to be fun.

We pray each day that Obama will show up to help Matheson (won't happen, but we can dream).

In other related news, Jon Huntsman is trying to trade his single delegate from NH for a cabinet position.

Does this explain liberal success?

She'll be my Congresswoman. I'm going to volunteer for her campaign. I've seen her speak and debate a few times. The other side will play the "novelty candidate" card. If will fail because she is bright, articulate, and principled.

And she doesn't have to fake her niceness and genuineness: they're real.

Ah, the real Casey is back.