Really Dude? Seriously?

     After seeing the pictures that Time Magazine recently published of Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, I have only one thing to say.  Dude, what the hell were you thinking?  I realize that this photo session was a year ago and back then you were just a lowly congressman from the wilds of Wisconsin.  But you were a nominee for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and an elected representative.  Is this the image you really want to portray?  Pauly Paul and the Funky Fresh Bunch just feelin the vibration?  Right Said Paul too sexy for his hat?  You look like you are just one bad tweet away from sending a picture of your penis to an intern.  The bottom line is you look like a fool and not someone who should be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.  You can claim that the photos were all the idea of the magazine or the photographer, but you said yes to the concept.  You put that baseball cap on backwards, picked up that dumbbell and flexed for the camera. Why?  It doesn’t look congressional.  It doesn’t look vice-presidential.  Then I figured it out. Maybe, just maybe, you were going for senatorial.  Back when these pictures were taken, everyone knew that Wisconsin’s democratic Senator Herb Kohl was not running for another term.  His job would be up for grabs, and who better to grab it than a relatively young and power hungry republican from southern Wisconsin?  But how to set yourself apart from the republican mob and make yourself a shoe-in for your party’s nomination?  Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Ryan you are a closet fan of our little blog and took the sarcasm of a much earlier post a little too seriously.  I refer to post from December of 2010 about the pictures taken of one Senator Brown (R-Mass.) in his misspent youth.  Yes, perhaps Mr. Ryan was trying to take a page out of the centerfold Senator’s book and let his freak flag fly, but if that was his intent, it was still an epic fail.  He did not go far enough. At least Senator Brown had the balls, at least I assume he does it is hard to tell from the picture, to go full frontal and really put himself out there.   All Congressman Paul Ryan accomplished with this photo shoot was to take some pictures that made him look like a vain, supercilious ass. But then, as they say, the camera never lies.