Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, seems to be losing it over Mitt Romney’s pick of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.
This week, Matthews showed and endorsed a pro-Medicare ad showing a figure that looks like Ryan pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair to a cliff and dumping her out to her death. Matthews called it “the ad I have to like the most in this campaign,” adding, “Here is a party that believes this stuff. Incentivize the rich. Screw the poor, and screw older people who don’t have much to defend themselves with. It is true. It’s not just party rhetoric. It is true.”
His Ryan-bashing didn’t end there. Tuesday night he compared Ryan to the two most ridiculed vice presidential candidates in modern time: Republican Dan Quayle and Democrat Tom Eagleton, bumped from George McGovern’s 1972 ticket in part because he had undergone electroshock therapy for mental illness.
Said Matthews: “This guy could be worse than Quayle, more trouble than Tom Eagleton because this time, the presidential candidate and his team knew the weakness, saw the trouble they were walking into before they walked into it and that’s not the best argument for Mr. Romney’s business acumen. This may be the worst merger since AOL bought Time Warner.”
