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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ROMNEY_RUNNING_MATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-11-01-04-02
Great pic. Obama going to get dismantled again.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313555/ryan-way-robert-costa
Good pic.
Obama will melt down again now that he will be again the least qualified and most incompetent of the 4 running.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-mitt-romney_n_1684794.html
LOL at the stupid libs melting down. Fucking commie libs.
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Mitt Romney announcing VP pick at the USS Wisconsin (home state of Paul Ryan)
Washington Examiner ^ | 10 August 2012 | Joel Gehrke
Posted on August 10, 2012 11:54:25 PM EDT
“Romney will announce his choice for Vice President in Norfolk, Virginia at 8:45am EST,” Romney campaign spokesman Lenny Alcivar told reporters in an email this evening.
The announcement is being made at the USS Wisconsin. It’s still unclear whom he will choose, but the odds that it is Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., seemed to increase when National Review’s Robert Costa noted that a charter plane flew from Boston to Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wis., today.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/11/ap_source_romney_picks_ryan_for_running_mate_115073.html
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When the libs whine about his foreign policy experience......just turn it back to the economy. We can't afford much of a policy unless we reign in spending. This should all be fun.
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When the libs whine about his foreign policy experience......just turn it back to the economy. We can't afford much of a policy unless we reign in spending. This should all be fun.
I am already seeing the whiners complain Paul was not the pick. Really? Ron Paul said he was not sure he was going to support Romney over Obama and these people tjink that he was going to be picked? LMFAO - talk about delusional.
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When the libs whine about his foreign policy experience......just turn it back to the economy. We can't afford much of a policy unless we reign in spending. This should all be fun.
Again, Obama / Biden can't run on their record sp they will attack the one guy w the balls actually to present a plan.
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Miami University '92
Economics, Political Science
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If this is the case, I'm really looking forward to Biden vs Ryan debates.
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If this is the case, I'm really looking forward to Biden vs Ryan debates.
Biden is going to get raped. Ryan destroyed Obama on ObamaCare and that creep was left speechless.
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I am already seeing the whiners complain Paul was not the pick. Really? Ron Paul said he was not sure he was going to support Romney over Obama and these people tjink that he was going to be picked? LMFAO - talk about delusional.
you seem to care a lot about what dipshit libs who dont matter seem to think. Do they actually matter?
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Rubio applauds Ryan pick
By SEUNG MIN KIM |
8/11/12 10:17 AM EDT
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), another running mate finalist for Mitt Romney, applauds the Paul Ryan pick in a statement Saturday morning:
“Throughout his life, Mitt Romney has made great decisions, and choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate is a truly inspired choice. I got to know Paul during my Senate campaign when he endorsed me early on when I was still considered a long shot. Paul Ryan is a courageous reformer who understands our nation’s challenges, has proposed bold policy solutions to solve them, and has shown the courage to stand up to President Obama and other Washington politicians trying to tear him down.
“The Romney-Ryan ticket is going to win in November because it offers the American people visionary leadership to recapture the free enterprise spirit that has empowered countless Americans to build businesses from scratch and live the American dream. I’m excited about the visionary change a Romney-Ryan team will bring to Washington, and I look forward to campaigning with them this fall.”
Read more about: Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio
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Paul Ryan’s budget plan hits federal workers
Washington Post ^ | August 11, 2012 | Joe Davidson, Federal Eye
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:11:03 PM by Cincinatus' Wife
The spending plan proposed by Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mitt Romney’s pick as the Republican vice presidential candidate, has drawn strong opposition from federal employees.
Under the proposed House Republican budget, which Ryan sponsored as chairman of the Budget Committee, savings from the federal workforce would total $368 billion over 10 years. The two-year freeze on basic federal pay rates, scheduled to expire at the end of this year, would be extended through 2015 for a total of five years.
“The Path to Prosperity,” as the budget plan is named, also calls on federal workers to make an unspecified “more equitable contribution to their retirement plans,” which means higher costs to employees. Additionally, the federal workforce would be cut, through attrition over three years, by 10 percent, which equals more than 200,000 positions.
Because the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Justice and Homeland Security have so many employees, the majority of the eliminated positions would come from these agencies, all of which are related to national security.
The budget document says its plans “reflect the growing frustration of workers across the country at the privileged rules enjoyed by government employees.”
Ryan’s budget justifies the employee-related cuts, saying “it is no coincidence that private sector employment continues to grow only sluggishly while the government expands: To pay for the public sector’s growth, Washington must immediately tax the private sector or else borrow and impose taxes later to pay down the debt.”
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good
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http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/08/11/white-house-insider-on-paul-ryan-vp-pick-obama-just-sht-himself
obama is in for another beating at the hands of Ryan
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Paul Ryan’s budget plan hits federal workers
That's 2.7 million workers + their parents and families who might not vote for the Republican ticket. See, they already have jobs, so it's not like they're "Anybody but obama". They're going to be "anybody but the guy who says I need to take a pay cut".
But you're going to alienate people when you choose an aggressive candidate like Paul Ryan.
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That's 2.7 million workers + their parents and families who might not vote for the Republican ticket. See, they already have jobs, so it's not like they're "Anybody but obama". They're going to be "anybody but the guy who says I need to take a pay cut".
But you're going to alienate people when you choose an aggressive candidate like Paul Ryan.
They already vote for obama.
Remember the same bullshit the leftist thugs claimed in the Walker race?
I just wish Mittens would swap w Ryan.
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Mega-Rich Race Hustler Russell Simmons Tweets Romney and Ryan 'Will Destroy Our People'
Conservative Nation News ^ | August. 11, 2012 | FreeThinkerNY
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:49:00 PM by Free ThinkerNY
Hysterical hyperbole from an intellectually bankrupt Obamacrat. The fear runs deep.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativenationnews.c om ...
LOL - the race pimping beginning already by the 95ers, commies, lgbt, socialists, progressives, and lib nuts
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Mega-Rich Race Hustler Russell Simmons Tweets Romney and Ryan 'Will Destroy Our People'
Conservative Nation News ^ | August. 11, 2012 | FreeThinkerNY
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:49:00 PM by Free ThinkerNY
Hysterical hyperbole from an intellectually bankrupt Obamacrat. The fear runs deep.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativenationnews.c om ...
LOL - the race pimping beginning already by the 95ers, commies, lgbt, socialists, progressives, and lib nuts
What a fucking dumbass, Welfare, Housing Projects...... destroyed your people, get clue Russel.
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Phrases like "Race Hustler" are in very poor taste.
particularly when both sides play up to their race and use coded terminology all the time.
its wrong to say "our people" but it's okay to say romney has that inside track on the whole anglo- english thing? ;)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'race hustler' is stooping to the same shitty low level as a pea brain like russell simmons.
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Phrases like "Race Hustler" are in very poor taste.
particularly when both sides play up to their race and use coded terminology all the time.
its wrong to say "our people" but it's okay to say romney has that inside track on the whole anglo- english thing? ;)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'race hustler' is stooping to the same shitty low level as a pea brain like russell simmons.
Whatever. Russel Simmons, like obama, like holder , like Jesse, Like Al, like Eric Dyson, are all race pimps and racial arsonists.
Fuck them and "their people" if they want to continue the fast track to socialism and depression w the same bullshit.
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Romney will lose because the election is fixed.
But, watching the debates will be comical. Barak Hussein Osama and village idiot Joe Biden are going to make total jackasses of themselves on national television.
Ryan could dismantle the community organizer and Biden the drunken slob by himself.
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Ryan's Address: 'Our Rights Come from Nature and God, Not Government'
The Weekly Standard ^ | 8/11/2012 | Paul Ryan
Posted on August 11, 2012 11:48:02 AM EDT by conservatism_IS_compassi on
Thank you Governor Romney, Ann. I am deeply honored and excited to join you as your running mate.
Mitt Romney is a leader with the skills, the background and the character that our country needs at a crucial time in its history. Following four years of failed leadership, the hopes of our country, which have inspired the world, are growing dim; and they need someone to revive them. Governor Romney is the man for this moment; and he and I share one commitment: we will restore the dreams and greatness of this country.
I want you to meet my family. My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our sons, Charlie and Sam.
I am surrounded by the people I love, and I have been asked by Governor Romney to serve the country I love.
Janesville, Wisconsin is where I was born and raised, and I never really left it. It’s our home now.
For the last 14 years, I have proudly represented Wisconsin in Congress. There, I have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, and turning ideas into action; and action into solutions.
I am committed, in heart and mind, to putting that experience to work in a Romney Administration. This is a crucial moment in the life of our nation; and it is absolutely vital that we select the right man to lead America back to prosperity and greatness.
That man is standing next to me. His name is Mitt Romney. And he will be the next president of the United States
My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. I still remember a couple of things he would say that have really stuck with me. "Son you are either part of the problem or part of the solution."
Regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem,...and Mitt Romney is the solution.
The other thing my dad would say is that every generation of Americans leaves their children better off. That's the American legacy.
Sadly, for the first time in our history, we are on a path which will undo that legacy. That is why we need new leadership to become part of the solution – new leadership to restore prosperity, economic growth, and jobs.
It is our duty to save the American Dream for our children, and theirs.
And I believe there is no person in America who is better prepared – because of his experience; because of the principles he holds; and because of his achievements and excellence in so many different arenas – to lead America at this point in its history.
Let me say a word about the man Mitt Romney will replace. No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation. And, in his first 2 years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn’t make things better.
In fact, we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair.
This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years. Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the Great Depression. Families are hurting.
We have the largest deficits and the biggest federal government since WWII.
Nearly 1 out of 6 Americans are in poverty--the worst rate in a generation. Moms and dads are struggling to make ends meet.
Household incomes have dropped by more than $4,000 over the past four years.
Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure.
President Obama, and too many like him in Washington, have refused to make difficult decisions because they are more worried about their next election than they are about the next generation. We might have been able to get away with that before, but not now. We’re in a different, and dangerous, moment. We're running out of time -- and we can't afford 4 more years of this.
Politicians from both parties have made empty promises which will soon become broken promises--with painful consequences--if we fail to act now.
I represent a part of America that includes inner cities, rural areas, suburbs and factory towns. Over the years I have seen and heard from a lot from families, from those running small businesses, and from people who are in need. But what I have heard lately troubles me the most. There is something different in their voice and in their words. What I hear from them are diminished dreams, lowered expectations, uncertain futures.
I hear some people say that this is just "the new normal." High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal. It's the result of misguided policies. And next January, our economy will begin a comeback with the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class that will lead to more jobs and more take home pay for working Americans.
America is on the wrong track; but Mitt Romney and I will take the right steps, in the right time, to get us back on the right track!
I believe my record of getting things done in Congress will be a very helpful complement to Governor Romney’s executive and private sector success outside Washington. I have worked closely with Republicans as well as Democrats to advance an agenda of economic growth, fiscal discipline, and job creation.
I’m proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you have a small business—you did build that.
At Bain Capital, he launched new businesses and he turned around failing ones – companies like Staples, Bright Horizons and Sports Authority, just to name a few. Mitt Romney created jobs and showed he knows how a free economy works.
At the Olympics, he took a failing enterprise and made it the pride of our entire nation.
As governor of Massachusetts, he worked with Democrats and Republicans to balance budgets with no tax increases, lower unemployment, increase income and improve people’s lives.
In all of these things, Mitt Romney has shown himself to be a man of achievement, excellence and integrity.
Janna and I tell Liza, Charlie and Sam that America is a place where, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead.
We Americans look at one another's success with pride, not resentment, because we know, as more Americans work hard, take risks, and succeed, more people will prosper, our communities will benefit, and individual lives will be improved and uplifted.
But America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.
This idea is under assault. So, we have a critical decision to make as a nation.
We are on an unsustainable path that is robbing America of our freedom and security. It doesn't have to be this way.
The commitment Mitt Romney and I make to you is this:
We won't duck the tough issues...we will lead!
We won't blame others...we will take responsibility!
We won't replace our founding principles...we will reapply them!
We will honor you, our fellow citizens, by giving you the right and opportunity to make the choice:
What kind of country do we want to have?
What kind of people do we want to be? We can turn this thing around. Real solutions can be delivered. But, it will take leadership. And the courage to tell you the truth.
Mitt Romney is this kind of leader. I'm excited for what lies ahead and I'm thrilled to be a part of America's Comeback Team. And together, we will unite America and get this done.
Thank you.
Ryan = the anti Obama. Clean, conservative, catholic, concerned w the nations finances.
FUCK Obama and every piece pf trash voting for him.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-video-2012-8
Lol. Even liberal Insider forced to admit Ryan ass raped obama to his face on thugCare.
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Ryan is a seriously smart dude.
Props to Mitt for not 'hispandering' with Rubio.
It's funny - he flirted with condi for the neocon vote, flirted with rubio for that hispanic vote - and everyone was like "Condi would be a great choice"
lmao. i'm glad he got someone bright.
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Ryan is a seriously smart dude.
Props to Mitt for not 'hispandering' with Rubio.
It's funny - he flirted with condi for the neocon vote, flirted with rubio for that hispanic vote - and everyone was like "Condi would be a great choice"
lmao. i'm glad he got someone bright.
I hope you don't really mean; i'm glad he got someone bright white
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Rudio and Rice are both very bright would you agree? Hey, I was thinking Romney wouldn't have to change his logo with Ryan, Rubio or Rice. ;D
HM
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I dont think Rubio is all that bright. I think he's a fresh face who appeals to hispanics, but that easily provable lie about his parents running from castro (when in reality they were wealthy and visited during castro to make $) was terrible. He's not bright, certainly not experienced.
Condi is a brilliant woman - BUT she is beyond polarizing and a bitter person at that. her face and words spit venom, and she's a reminder of "didn't bother to read 911 memo" and "WMD".
Ryan is a great pick, a little wet behind ears, but he's a stud. I just hate a lot of his budget plan.
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/08/11/ryan-seen-as-romneys-bridge-to-conservatives
Ryan was the best pick possible. Tea Party ready to roll.
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http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/11/paul-ryans-selection-electrifies-gop-grass-roots
Bama going t get his ignorant ass handed to him by Ryan again.
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Look for Ryan to be accused of human sacrifice by the Dems.
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Look for Ryan to be accused of human sacrifice by the Dems.
Truth. The thugs on the left like Obama Biden pelosi Reid wasamanshitz et al can't run on their failed record so they will smear Ryan now.
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Truth. The thugs on the left like Obama Biden pelosi Reid wasamanshitz et al can't run on their failed record so they will smear Ryan now.
Dems are WAY more quiet about this pick than the last, to their credit. There are a few d-bags saying "only" 7 terms in congress wont prepare him with EXEC experience, but obama didn't have that either.
Ryan's been running shit on the national scene for 14 years and long before that as an intern/aide. He knows his shit.
And libs like me who called palin wholly unqualified, well, many of us agree Ryan is a bright kid and prepared to be POTUS. Is he a shrewd MFer like Morgan Freeman would be as POTUS, no, but neither is obama.
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The democrats can't attack Ryan that well since they have not have not had a budget in 4 years and have a failed record they can't defend.
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“Paul Ryan represents Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: Math”
Battleground Watch ^ | 8-12-2012 | Keith Backer
Posted on August 12, 2012 9:31:13 PM EDT by smoothsailing
August 12, 2012
“Paul Ryan represents Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: Math”
Keith Backer
The Blogfather has a great column where he quotes the always hysterical IowaHawk regarding the impact of selection Paul Ryan on the Obama campaign psyche:
In Inman Majors’ terrific novel The Millionaires, a consultant explains that there are really only two themes to political campaigns: “It’s A Bright New Day,” and “Back To Basics.” Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was “Bright New Day” raised to a higher power. Now, with the choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has signaled that he’s doubling down on “Back To Basics.” That has risks, but they’re risks worth running.
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With trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, and the exploding national debt (which Obama called unconscionable when it was about half as big as it has become under his stewardship) it seems time for a Back To Basics approach. And that’s clearly the direction favored by Romney, the turnaround artist who specialized in taking mismanaged entities and making them work. His choice of Ryan simply takes it to a new level. As Internet humorist IowaHawk tweeted on Saturday: “Paul Ryan represents Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: Math.”
As the great one often says, read the whole thing…
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http://m.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/romneyryan-rally-planned-for-waukesha-sunday-night-096f6lt-165842666.html
Wow. Fired up ready to go!!!!
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/12/paul_ryans_homecoming_rally_speech_in_wisconsin.html
Great FNG speech by Ryan
NO TELEPROMPTER!
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/12/paul_ryans_homecoming_rally_speech_in_wisconsin.html
Great FNG speech by Ryan
NO TELEPROMPTER!
he's been writing that speech since kindergarten lol... dude was built for this.
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he's been writing that speech since kindergarten lol... dude was built for this.
Just wish Ryan were at the top of the ticket.
he was FNG great today. ve mittens in Wisconsin speech was great too.
Ryan is exactly what I want. - Metalhead, workout fanatic, hunter, shooter, Ayn radian, Hayekian, Reaganite, Gen Xr, etc.
I'm so pumped he was picked. best possible pick by a mile.
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I'm so pumped he was picked. best possible pick by a mile.
I'm shocked Romney overlooked Herman Cain.
jeebus, look at the contrast between Cain and Ryan. Really, WTF were repubs thinking this time around? ???
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I'm shocked Romney overlooked Herman Cain.
jeebus, look at the contrast between Cain and Ryan. Really, WTF were repubs thinking this time around? ???
I'm not kidding, Ryan was the best possible pic imaginable. He is not a divisive hack, he is GenX, clean, smart, etc.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/12/paul_ryans_homecoming_rally_speech_in_wisconsin.html
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Paul Ryan and the Triumph of Math
American Thinker ^ | August 12, 2012 | Clarice Feldman
Posted on August 12, 2012 10:25:54 PM EDT by neverdem
Luftmensh is a delightful Yiddish word to describe an impractical person who concerns himself with airy intellectual matters and not how to make a living or get things to actually work. I had just decided to make this column on Paul Ryan's nomination about how facts, in this case mathematics, will beat the fantastical notions of the luftmensh in the White House. Remember, Obama began his term as the spinner of naďve hopes and dreams and as those proved unworkable, became the purveyor of fear, anxiety and outright lies. Once again, however, the great Iowahawk beat me to it with this twitter:
"Paul Ryan represent Obama's most horrifying nightmare: math."
Let me remind you how nightmarish Ryan is to Obama. Here's a six-minute take down of Obamacare by Congressman Ryan.
Watch the vacant look in Obama's eyes as it becomes clear he has no idea how to respond to the facts Ryan raises, to the math which demonstrates the utter unsustainability of Obama's legislative scheme.
And then observe how that look in Obama's eyes turns to rage.
Ryan, a man who does know what's he's talking about on the most important issue before us -- rescuing the economy from Obama's mismanagement and getting America back on track -- has to be Obama's worst nightmare.
(As for Joe Biden, my guess is he should start packing up to leave his office because Obama cannot afford to have as his running mate this time a man obviously chosen only because he was sure never to intellectually show up his boss.)
Fiscal conservatives and libertarians who want to limit the federal government's control of our money and lives are ecstatic. Why shouldn't they be? Here are some of the things Ryan's been heard to say:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Obama Campaign: 'Why The Hell Did Romney Pick This Guy?'
Breitbart ^ | 8/13/12 | Ben Shapiro
Posted on August 13, 2012 9:43:09 PM EDT by Nachum
This evening, the Obama campaign sent out its most desperate fundraising email yet. Following in the footsteps of their other emails cursing out Americans (e.g. “Let’s win the damn election”), and tweets deriding Obamacare opponents as “motherf***ers,” now the Obama campaign is spluttering mad over the Paul Ryan pick by the Romney campaign. Here’s their email, titled “What’s behind the Paul Ryan pick?”:
Friend --
Congressman Paul Ryan is the poster boy for the extreme Republican leadership in a Congress whose overall approval rating is 12 percent. His plan to dismantle Medicare is deeply unpopular with the general public, and especially undecided voters.
You might be wondering why the hell Romney picked this guy. But this is a strategic pick that carries real danger for us.
Here's the calculation: Mitt Romney doesn't need or expect Paul Ryan to convince even one undecided voter to cast their ballot for him. That's not what he's on the ticket for. He's there to reassure and inspire ultraconservative ideologues and corporate interests that they will have one of their own a heartbeat from the presidency.
That means tens or even hundreds of millions more dollars for the
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Ryan isn't a huge PLUS but isn't a NEGATIVE at all. Aside from the Ryan budget - which Romney disavoiwed on day 1.
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Ryan should never try to be 1) Funny or 2) Tough.
Stick with being smart, consistent and conservative - and serious and confident.
When he puffs up or tries to make jokes, noooooo.
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John Zogby Poll: Ryan Gives Romney Big Push in Swing States, Independents
Newsmax ^ | August 13, 2012 | Jim Meyers
Posted on August 14, 2012 3:49:17 AM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney’s campaign has gotten a decisive bump upwards with the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new poll by JZ Analytics reveals.
The poll — the first survey conducted after Romney announced Ryan as his vice presidential choice — shows the Romney/Ryan ticket tied with Obama/Biden at 46 percent.
But a JZ Analytics poll from a few weeks ago had Obama leading Romney by 5 percentage points, and most major polls also had Obama comfortably in the lead before the Ryan selection.
A CNN survey completed on Thursday, Aug. 9, had Obama up by 7 points. A Fox poll on Aug. 9 had the president ahead by 9 points, and a survey by Public Policy polling on Aug. 7 showed Obama with a 6-point lead.
“Clearly there is a Ryan bump,” pollster John Zogby, managing director of JZ Analytics, told Newsmax. Significantly, the new poll shows the Romney/Ryan ticket with a substantial lead among voters in swing states, 49.1 percent to 41.2 percent.
Also, the Republican ticket garners 45.2 percent among independent voters, ahead of the Democratic ticket at 40.1. Obama led in an earlier poll of independents. That shows that the Ryan choice has not hurt the Republican ticket in this important demographic, and has actually helped.
What is also significant here, according to Zogby, is that the percentage of voters who say they are still undecided now stands at just 14.7 percent, compared to over 20 percent in an earlier Zogby poll...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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Mitt's Damn-the-Torpedoes Decision
Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2012 | Pat Buchanan
Posted on Tue Aug 14 2012 08:27:08 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by Kaslin
Mitt Romney's decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know than Adm. David Farragut in Mobile Bay:
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Facing sinking polls, endless attack ads on his tax returns and Bain Capital record, and venomous lies that he was culpable in the cancer death of the wife of a steelworker seven years after he left Bain, Romney decided to convert this dismal campaign into a stark choice of philosophies and policies. Picking Ryan, Mitt shoved his whole stack of chips into the middle of the table and sent this message to the American people:
"Friends, our country is in trouble. If we do not lift the burden of taxation, regulation and spending that has produced $5 trillion in new debt in four years, we are going the way of Spain and Greece.
"I have chosen this young leader Paul Ryan to be my partner because he has thought more deeply and read more closely into the causes and consequences of our fiscal crisis than any other man in Washington.
"Now President Obama says his approach to solving America's fiscal crisis has 'worked.' If you believe that, go ahead and vote for him.
"But Paul Ryan and I believe that 42 straight months of 8 percent unemployment, $5 trillion in new debt and trillion-dollar deficits staring at us all the way to the horizon is a course to fiscal and financial ruin. He and I do not believe America can survive many more years of what Barack Obama has produced and promises to produce.
"We are offering America a different direction from the radical-liberal path of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, where the federal government consumes a fourth of the entire economy. We are offering a Romney-Reagan-Ryan conservative road to prosperity.
"I am not going to tell you this will not involve sacrifice. But if you believe this country needs a course correction, then we are asking you to take a chance with change to restore an America where our children can anticipate the better future we all could when we were growing up.
"You know and I know there is something fundamentally wrong with the direction in which we are headed. And the proof lies in the grim statistics that keep coming in month after month after month."
Romney's choice of Ryan makes the election of 2012 not only a report card and referendum on Obama, but a clear choice between philosophies.
Obama believes government is the engine of prosperity. Romney and Ryan believe people, private institutions, entrepreneurs and businesses are the creative and energizing forces in society.
And what a difference four years have made in this president.
In 2008, Obama was the candidate of "hope and change." In 2012, Obama is the candidate of inflexibility and fear.
Look at him, his surrogates and his ads.
Do they not all say to the American people: Be afraid, be terrified of what Romney and that dangerous Ryan would do. Be fearful, for Romney and Ryan will take from you what you have, while we will make sure you keep what you have, and we promise you more.
With the selection of Ryan, Mitt Romney has made this election a test of the people themselves. Two-thirds of all Americans, according to polls, believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Will they vote for Romney-Ryan to change course, or for Obama to continue on that course because they fear the unknown to the known?
The predictable Democratic response to Ryan's candidacy has begun. They are rummaging through his budget to find proposed cuts and crafting ads to frighten portions of the population about what those terrible cuts might mean to them.
Will it work?
Well, this will be a test of the communications skills of the Romney-Ryan campaign. Can they persuade the people to boot the Obamaites out of the wheelhouse and entrust them with the leadership of the nation?
Second, it will be a test of the people. Can they, will they reject the frightening picture that will be painted of Romney and Ryan's America?
America has faced course corrections before, with 1932 and 1980 coming to mind. In both those elections, the failed leadership was broomed out in a landslide.
Is there any doubt that this administration, too, has fallen short of what it promised? Is there any doubt that it, too, has failed?
But are we the same people those generations were? Or have we become the fearful and risk-averse electorate the consultants and the ad-makers think we are?
We shall see.
Nevertheless, Romney is owed a debt for choosing a man of principles and conservative philosophy as a running mate, thereby giving this country a clear choice as to the future it wants to live in.
However it comes out, this decision was a gutsy call.
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Will medicare be the albatross? Mitt was certainly without an answer on "how is your plan diff from that of Ryans"
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Will medicare be the albatross? Mitt was certainly without an answer on "how is your plan diff from that of Ryans"
Medicare is an albatross for Obama since he is the thug who robbed it to pay for ThugCare without shoring up its finances.
Ryan actually has a plan to save it which Erskine Bowles called honest and sincere. You do know who that is right?
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Medicare is an albatross for Obama
Are you making the prediction that the Ryan plan will in no way hurt romney/ryan with voters in the fall?
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Are you making the prediction that the Ryan plan will in no way hurt romney/ryan with voters in the fall?
No! Its only welfare state moochers who hate it. Taxpayers want the problem fixed - not more lies from your pofs messiah who has no budget, no record, no fixes, no deficit reduction, nothing to run on.
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Are you making the prediction that the Ryan plan will in no way hurt romney/ryan with voters in the fall?
Its funny how you only focus on what might happen with Ryan, while Obama spends all his fucking time fund raising, and sticking his foot in his mouth.
Obama has nothing to run on, all he can do is try to make people believe that the evil rich are trying to screw them. He is a typical Illinois politician, a scum bag that can only deceive.
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Its funny how you only focus on what might happen with Ryan, while Obama spends all his fucking time fund raising, and sticking his foot in his mouth.
Obama has nothing to run on, all he can do is try to make people believe that the evil rich are trying to screw them. He is a typical Illinois politician, a scum bag that can only deceive.
People like 240 are a direct reflection of obama and vice versa. His being a corrupt ghetto piece of trash and scumbag who hates this country is why they worship him.
Obama's base of drug addicts, communists, marxists, freaks, LGBT, racist minorities, govt union workers, etc love this con man for precisely the reasons why any self respectinbg decent person would otherwise be revolted at obama.
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People like 240 are a direct reflection of obama and vice versa. His being a corrupt ghetto piece of trash and scumbag who hates this country is why they worship him.
Obama's base of drug addicts, communists, marxists, freaks, LGBT, racist minorities, govt union workers, etc love this con man for precisely the reasons why any self respectinbg decent person would otherwise be revolted at obama.
you're supporting a candidate who signed a gun ban, one of the strictest in the nation's history.
before you call me anything, ask yourself WTF is wrong with the republicans. just unreal. You have the audacity to call obama's base this and that - you're voting for a guy who wiped his ass with your gun rights. what a mess.
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you're supporting a candidate who signed a gun ban, one of the strictest in the nation's history.
before you call me anything, ask yourself WTF is wrong with the republicans. just unreal. You have the audacity to call obama's base this and that - you're voting for a guy who wiped his ass with your gun rights. what a mess.
No matter who ran you would have attacked them endlessly. Newt, Santorum, Bachmann, Paul who you disagree with on the major issues, etc.
Its all about running defense and cover for the messiah, we get it.
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No matter who ran you would have attacked them endlessly. Newt, Santorum, Bachmann, Paul who you disagree with on the major issues, etc.
Its all about running defense and cover for the messiah, we get it.
I'm not attacking Paul Ryan endlessly. I think he's ready to be president, stellar record. I just disagree with PART of his plan.
i guess i'm not allowed to disagree with part of his plan?
Really... my venom at Ryan hasn't been there. I hated Palin, she wrecked a perfectly good election. but Ryan is a solid addition to the ticket and America will be a great veep, and maybe prez one day.
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Like I said a few months ago, our choice this November will be between clueless Liberal Democrats and out-of-touch GOP establishment plutocrats.
Anyone else plan to be in the gym on Election Day?
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Like I said a few months ago, our choice this November will be between clueless Liberal Democrats and out-of-touch GOP establishment plutocrats.
Anyone else plan to be in the gym on Election Day?
I am staying home and hunkering down on election day.
Armed bald white dudes with are going to be pissed when the Soros-owned Spanish company that counts the votes hands this one to Obama despite major polling saying the otherwise. They might get rowdy.
hopefully our leaders have a plan in place to round them up to keep the rest of us safe. Can never be too careful!
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I am staying home and hunkering down on election day.
Armed bald white dudes with are going to be pissed when the Soros-owned Spanish company that counts the votes hands this one to Obama despite major polling saying the otherwise. They might get rowdy.
hopefully our leaders have a plan in place to round them up to keep the rest of us safe. Can never be too careful!
I thought you were voting for Romney?
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I thought you were voting for Romney?
i forgot my [sarcasm] tag for ya :)
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Like I said a few months ago, our choice this November will be between clueless Liberal Democrats and out-of-touch GOP establishment plutocrats.
Anyone else plan to be in the gym on Election Day?
Romney wasn't my first, second or even third choice, but its either Romney or Obama, no other will win in November, So I will be voting for Romney/Ryan, just as Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, Ted Nugent, Jonh Hagee and others that you have written about on here will be doing.
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Romney wasn't my first, second or even third choice, but its either Romney or Obama, no other will win in November, So I will be voting for Romney/Ryan, just as Rand Paul, Pat Buchanan, Ted Nugent, Jonh Hagee and others that you have written about on here will be doing.
You should see some of the meltdowns on FR lately. A bunch of religious psychotics.
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Mitt's 'Damn-the-Torpedoes!' Decision
By Pat Buchanan - August 14, 2012
Mitt Romney's decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know than Adm. David Farragut in Mobile Bay:
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Romney is owed a debt for choosing a man of principles and conservative philosophy as a running mate, thereby giving this country a clear choice as to the future it wants to live in.
However it comes out, this decision was a gutsy call
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/14/mitts_damn-the-torpedoes_decision_115099.html
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Rand Paul endorses Mitt Romney