Dude, You Wrote a Budget? With Numbers?
Okay, so he’s delusional, dumb, or dog dump. Your pick.
Remember when Paul Ryan claimed he could run a three minute mile? Okay, so I made that up but he did claim he ran a marathon in under 3 hours. Turns out it was over 4 hours.
Now he’s claiming to have 6% body fat.
It’s those damn tricky numbers again.
According to Iñigo San Millan, a veteran cycling physiologist who has worked with numerous Tour de France teams, the lowest body fat he’s ever measured on a cyclist was 8.3 percent. That’s at peak fitness, racing shape.
The average man has 17 – 24% body fat and even top college age competitive swimmers have over 9%.
And then there’s his mountain climbing.
Also not showing up: any summit shots from Ryan’s claimed 38 trips up Colorado’s 14,000-foot-high peaks, or “fourteeners,” a claim that has also generated skepticism among climbers. In a nutshell, there was confusion over whether Ryan had climbed 40 of the state’s 53 fourteeners, as he seems to have led at least one local politician to believe, or (as a campaign statement later clarified) “almost 40 climbs” up 28 different peaks.
Y’all, I do not mean to be ugly about this or even the least bit tacky, but a man who constantly exaggerates his physical condition might also exaggerate about the size of his …. well, ability to add and subtract. (No, I am not going to that other thought and neither are you.)
Thanks to David for the heads up.
Maybe he meant he’s driven up Pikes Peak (a 14er) 40 times in his car.
1Too bad the fat is all between his ears……
2At the very least you’ve got to wonder what his problem is.
3How does he not get it? I don’t give a single damn what kind of shape an elected official is in, as long as he or she is physically capable of doing the job. I DO care, a lot, if an elected official habitually lies about what kind of shape he or she is in. This seems almost pathological.
4I wonder why he thinks any of this bears on his fitness for elective office…why bother to lie about marathon times, about body fat, about mountain climbing? All it does is show that besides being underendowed with truthfulness, he’s overendowed with concerns about his body.
5Maybe that’s what he told Mrs. Ryan when he was gone. “Really, Honey, I climbed that dang mountain again.”
6“Really, Honey, I climbed that dang mountain again.”
Now that’s funny.
What’s the big deal? Ryan is Running for VP not President. Maybe he has to show he is fit to live in Blair House.
Or maybe … he thinks that if Romney wins he can be the power behind the (maybe) President.
7I’m in shape. . . . . Round is a shape.
Or better yet:
I’ve the body of a god. . . . . . Buddha.
The man is a pathological lier.
8Pathological. He just can NOT lie.
9Oh yes I am – but I’m not gonna do it out loud. You know, guys who do that – exaggerate stuff like that – usually have very very little . . . to impress anyone. I knew the first time I saw him that he was, in all ways, unimpressive.
10If you round four o one to two fifty, I don’t want you anywhere around my Social Security benefit.
11The Immortal Bard wrote “”The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” It was one of the Queen’s lines in Hamlet.
Paul Ryan is apparently very vain, change Shakespeare’s lady to lad and there is food for thought.
I am led to think about preacher Ted Haggard cavorting with his male masseuse, Dr Rekers (founder of the Family Research Council) with his RentBoy and our ‘wide-stance’ Sen Larry Craig. The more rabidly homophobic they are in public, it seems the queerer they are in private.
12Uh-oh! JJ, I already went to that thought before that last line. Sorry, but I just couldn’t help myself. So yeah, I think he has a problem with his…ability to add and subtract (also). And, Bananas, the more they protest “deviant” behavior, the more I believe they have more knowledge of the subject than I do (dare I say INTIMATE knowledge?).
More interesting to me than all his stupid, trivial lies about his narcissism, is why do his groupies want a pathological liar to be VP?
13Pathological is correct….he lies glibly, and when caught just shifts slightly and starts lying in another direction. There is a name for that – and I don’t want it anywhere near my country’s leadership.
Or as my voting age son says, “That guy is creepy.”
14I keep wondering if Mitt chose this guy as his VP running mate because some Republican voters really want Ron Paul as their candidate and Paul Ryan is so similiar, at least, the name is. I think Mitt figures he can fool a bunch of people.
15Ryan could be telling the truth, you know! If the body fat between between his ears isn’t measured, that is.
16Ryan could be telling the truth, you know! If the body fat between his ears isn’t measured, that is.
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