[shari91]

Originally posted on 10/12/2012:

Again, that's politics. Romney is doing it, Ryan is doing it....Obama is definitely doing it (see Rev. Wright regarding his personal beliefs amongst many other things) and certainly Biden is doing it.

This argument is moot because it applies to ALL OF THEM AS POLITICIANS. Romney did things in Massachusetts he HAD to do because he faced an 87% democratic congress. Obviously that situation calls for different policies than if he were the POTUS.

Ryan as argued in this thread did things he may not agree with as a general philosophy. Every politician does.

And my whole point was that what Biden did - by pointing out the hypocrisy of Ryan's statements against the stimulus package - is what any politician with a bit of brain matter would have done. Ryan led himself to slaughter during that part of the debate. You keep referring to him as a politician but I'd hope that if someone were to become the VP they'd have a bit more nous than to expect not to get hammered on something like that and instead attempt to avoid or minimise that topic of conversation. You don't give your opponent an opening to kill you with facts - written by your own hand no less.