Update: OMG! Continuing on with how things just fall into place, Rachel Maddow just started out her show tonight with the subject of this diary ...

It's funny how things just fall into place sometimes. Last night before watching The Rachel Maddow Show, I saw a post by Eric Erickson at Redstate which he titled, Blowing Up the “Paul Ryan Will Turn Off Women” Meme. Right on cue, the second segment of Rachel's show, addressed Paul Ryan's record on abortion, birth control and in vitro fertilization. I wrote a diary about the segment: Rachel Maddow: "Welcome Congressman Ultrasound [Ryan] to the Republican Ticket" as a response to Erickson's post. Within an hour of publishing that diary, I visited Facebook to catch up on what was going on with family and friends, when I saw this post from Upworthy.com on my news feed:

When I clicked on the post, there were several examples of Tweets from "Paul Ryan Gosling," with this description.



Paul Ryan Gosling is a Twitter account run by some anonymous genius, whose satirical tweets are easily ten times more honest than Paul Ryan himself. Laugh to keep from crying, everyone. Laugh to keep from crying.

I found the Paul Ryan Gosling is a Twitter account , and there were already over 28,000 followers. When I clicked on it just now, the number had swelled to 35,508. He also calls himself

The Washington Post describes the quick assent of the account to such popularity to the fact that "the Internet wants what it wants, and right now, it wants a hybrid of sensitive hunk Ryan Gosling and VP-pick Paul Ryan, now in the form of two Paul Ryan Gosling memes."

Only, I don't think that Romney-Ryan team will look at this association favorably considering some of the tweets being generated by the anonymous owner of the account, that all start out with "Hey, Girl..."

Hey girl, you look so cute when you're losing your reproductive rights. — Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) August 14, 2012

Hey girl, you know what makes me swoon? Tax cuts for millionaires. And puppy breath lol! — Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) August 14, 2012

Hey girl, I know I'm only 42, but my ideas on women's rights are over 500 years old. — Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) August 12, 2012

Hey girl, I'm the intellect of the GOP party. Obviously that shouldn't intimidate you. — Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) August 12, 2012

I think it's time for Eric Erickson to start rethinking his chances of killing that “Paul Ryan Will Turn Off Women” meme. What do you think?

It goes without saying, if you use Twitter, please start following Paul Ryan Gosling and start retweeting. Let's help get the word out about the better Paul Ryan. Oh, and if you're on Facebook, be sure to LIKE Upworthy.com because they post several links a day that you will want to Like and Share. Like their most recent post:

Haven't heard of Upworthy? There's a great article at The New York Times that explains what they're all about.

