Poor Paul Ryan

Yet at every opportunity, Romney and the campaign have undermined Ryan's sterling reputation with the forced birthers, and Romney's latest (and quickly walked-back) assertion that he would have no anti-abortion legislative agenda must have been a particularly bitter pill for Ryan to swallow.

Because, you see, Ryan does have an agenda. Oh yes, he has quite an agenda. He is awful proud of being one of the most vigilant anti-women extremists in Congress:



He believes ending a pregnancy should be illegal even when it results from rape or incest, or endangers a woman’s health. He was a cosponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a federal bill defining fertilized eggs as human beings, which, if passed, would criminalize some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization. [...] The National Right to Life Committee has scored his voting record 100 percent every year since he entered the House in 1999. “I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” he told The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack in 2010.

“Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.”

But the Romney campaign forced Ryan to pretend otherwise:



His statements were outrageous, over the pail. I don’t know anybody who would agree with that. Rape is rape period, end of story.