Paul Ryan Rejected by his Ancestral Home

Paul Ryan visited Ireland, but the Irish-American Vice-Presidential candidate was apparently rejected by the folks in his ancestral home. Why?

"He's too far right-wing for this part of the world," said Martin Brett, the former mayor of the county's capital Kilkenny, who hosted Ryan's uncle when he came to trace his roots in the region a few years ago.

Right wing? It's true that Europeans in general lean much more towards left-wing socialist politics than Americans. What's looks left to us is more central to them. So that left-leaining Europeans would think Ryan "right wing" comes as no surprise.

Then there's the fact that Obama, when he visited Ireland, very publicly drank a Guinness, which apparently endeared him to the locals.

Obama struck public relations gold last year by sharing a Guinness with a distant cousin in the village of Moneygall after an amateur genealogist traced his ancestors there. Pictures of cheering Irish crowds were beamed across the United States.

(Is this a case of a people stereotyping themselves?)

Of course, the fact that Ryan criticized the Irish probably doesn't help either:

The Wisconsin congressman has not endeared himself to his kin by holding their country up as a cautionary tale of bad practice.

Then again, the fact is most of us really don't want to hear the truth about ourselves.

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