Romney / Ryan — Throw grandma under the bus and tie the dog to the roof.

Romney / Ryan sandwich – two pieces of white bread with no filling.

From my friend Bev – if Paul Ryan popped up in the first 10 minutes of a Law and Order episode, you’d be all “oh, he’s the killer.”

(by the way – the Texas Democratic Party is still meeting and raising hell.  I’m having a ball!)

Here’s the deal.  I am in Fort Worth for a State Democratic Executive Committee and my phone goes wild at 6:15 this morning.

Apparently, Mitt Romney also went wild.

You know, all I can remember is Newt Gingrich saying that the Ryan budget is social engineering to kill off old people.  So, you’ve got Mitt Romney saying that he’s raising taxes on the middle class by $2,000 but now we can pay it because we can cut out Grandma and Grandpa’s Christmas gift.

I’m headed to meetings so chat this sucker up!

Okay, so maybe the book writing people about the GOP delegates are right for the wrong reasons.

Have you seen this?

The Bain start-up money came from the El Salvadorian death squads?

This man wants to be President?

Blood money.  Good Lord, look at the grins.

Thanks to Bob for the heads-up.

There’s something about Texas – if I didn’t live here, I wouldn’t live here.

We have 248 kinds of snakes in Texas and 246 of them will kill you.  We have hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, mad bulls, honky tonks where we mix guns, beer, and dancin’ with someone else’s wife, bad politicians, oil men who will steal the fillings out a child’s mouth, heat stroke, stinging jellyfish, fire ants, and blue northers.

We have mosquitoes that can carry off a small dog.  And now we have mosquitoes determined to kill you.  West Nile Virus is scampering all over Texas.

North Texas is experiencing a major outbreak of the disease this year, with a record number of reported cases. As of Thursday, Tarrant County had 131 reported cases, with one death, a Euless woman in her 60s with other medical issues, according to Tarrant County Public Health.

Now this would not be a big deal except that I am a woman in her sixties who is headed to North Texas this weekend.

I do not want my obituary to say, “a mosquito got her.”  I wanna die fighting something big, not a damn mosquito.  You can’t even shoot a mosquito so it doesn’t seem like a fair fight to me.

And hell, you don’t even know they’re there until they bite you.

By the way, fire ants won’t kill you.  They just make you wish you were dead.

Could we get this lucky?

There is an actual book on the market, written by actual people – as least we suspect – suggests that Republican delegates to their national convention are not bound to vote for Romney, even if they were elected as Romney delegates.

DUMP ROMinee: Why Tampa’s Republican Delegates must Dump Romney to Defeat Obama, is based on a memo going to GOP delegates and officials of the August, 2012 Republican National Convention. Given a weak incumbent and economy, it argues that Romney ought to be ahead in the race for the White House, yet he’s losing to President Obama by a projected 332-206 votes in the Electoral College, according to RealClearPolitics.com. Meanwhile, New York Times political analyst Nate Silver rates Romney’s odds of victory at around 23%.
The book contends that no delegates are actually “bound” to vote for Romney, that all are free to “conscientiously abstain” on the all-important first ballot.

And then it goes on to yabber about Mormons, The Gays, and God only knows about those “naked temple rites and all.”

For a mere $10, Republican delegates – and Democratic opposition research writers – can discover why Mitt Romney should never be President, and how they can put a stop to this foolishness in Tampa and how that’s their duty as good Christians and Jews and hot damn we may have something exciting to watch!

And the twits just keep on coming …

Thanks to Anthony for the heads up.