Joe Scarborough pissed me off again this morning on MSNBC. He's the conservative host, and he's complaining about Rick Perry. I guess Perry was Al Gore's campaign manager back in the day, and has a history as a less conservative guy. Joe doesn't trust him to be a "real conservative". He twice said that Real Conservatives, "and there are only a few of us left, small government conservatives like me and Paul Ryan..."
Paul Ryan!!??!! The Paul Ryan who voted for the prescription drug benefit? The Paul Ryan who voted for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars without paying for them? The Paul Ryan who votes for the Medicare "Doc Fix" every year?
Look, maybe Paul Ryan has seen the light and is no longer a Big Spending Conservative, but has truly converted to the Tea Party Small Government. But then Joe Scarborough should consider that Rick Perry has done the same thing- that's what his record says, anyway.
It's amazing how these narratives develop and get stuck in the public consciousness. "Paul Ryan is a fiscal conservative" is just accepted as fact, like "John Kerry is a flip-flopper", "John McCain is a maverick", etc. Evidence ceases to matter in the public and press corps.
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