"But Mr. Paul Ryan is widely portrayed as an intellectual leader within the G.O.P., with special expertise on matters of debt and deficits. So the revelation that he literally doesn’t know the first thing about the debt crises currently in progress is, as I said, interesting — and not in a good way."
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I have no idea if Ryan is an intellectual (I like to think that if you are an intellectual you cannot be a Republican) but even if he is, the only way to appeal to the Teabaggers is to appeal to their delusions.
