Romney names Paul Ryan as running mate
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin will join Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on a tour through four battleground states, including Virginia and North Carolina. | Associated Press
NORFOLK — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
Romney made his announcement to supporters via a phone app. “Mitt’s Choice for VP is Paul Ryan,” it said and implored backers to spread the word.
What do you think? Read more about the event and announcement here, and weigh in with your thoughts in the comments.
August 11, 2012 - 11:50 AM
Excellent choice to get this country back on track!
Ryan is the new Palin. Rmoney’s campaign is finished.
I’m pretty excited about it in terms of the upcoming debates. Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog has some good posts on the topic, especially this one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-will-be-mitt-romneys-vice-presidential-pick-heres-seven-thoughts-on-what-that-means/
Interesting choice. Ryan is the man who used his Social Security able bodied survivor benefits to finance his college education after his father died, despite his family not needing the income, but wants to eliminate the same safety net for seniors and people with disabilities. Where did his family get their money? From an Eisenhower public works highway program or economic stimulus in today’s terms. Most destructive vice presidential choice of my lifetime, both for the Romney campaign and for the country if God forbid they should win. If you want to know Ryan’s soul, read the writings of his inspiration Ayn Rand.
VP Paul Ryan And The Real 2012 Election Issues
U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (WI-1), the next Vice President of the United States, will bring to the 2012 Election stage what Obama and the Progressives and Liberals and the Democrats all fear the most: A Spotlight On The Real 2012 Election Issues.
Read this blog item at:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/08/vp-paul-ryan-and-real-2012-election.html
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From morning to afternoon, Obama went up .8 points on RCP. There was a bounce all right….it went to Obama.
And here I was afraid Romney could not do any worse. Silly, silly me.
Here’s the real story on Ryan:
http://www.barackobama.com/romney/ryan/?source=em12_20120811_da_don&utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_campaign=em12_20120811_da_don&keycode=fa978069ccef7b75b3fdcc79e52b213c7e7400094cbd4938045ef8d1524bb128
barackobama.com? A credible source for the “real story” huh? Please…
@ Dave
The ‘real’ story on Paul Ryan, from a Barack Obama website? Yeah, I’m sure there’s no bias there at all.
Other Rick and Jeffrey, you can read those same truths from many other sources. Some, of course, are just the plain truth, as spoken from Ryan’s own mouth.
#11 Should have read “some are just plain spoken from Ryan’s own mouth.”
http://twitchy.com/2012/08/12/running-scared-obama-frantically-tweets-facts-about-ryan-citizens-respond-with-truth/
dave, is that the same website that once (brokenly) promised all meetings concerning ‘obamacare’ would be held publicly and broadcasted on C-SPAN??
THAT website?!?!?!?!
Don’t be such a tool, dave.
I bet dave gets a shiver running down his leg when he visits barackobama . com
#13 Wow, that was pretty brainless site you linked to, Jeffrey. It makes fun of Obama for supposedly tweeting “frantically,” yet the whole tone of post there and the site itself is frantic and breathless. “Twitchy,” actually. Pretty funny.
I repeat, it’s pretty cool to watch you guys ignore the hard solid truth that much of what is being said about Ryan comes pretty much straight from his mouth. It doesn’t matter what site it’s posted on, it’s Ryan’s words.
gdad, would you like me to post a link to all of Obama’s failed promises? Perhaps that would show you that Obama is not the messiah that you seem to think he is.
I’m afraid, Jeffrey, unless it is posted on dailykos.com, baracknobama.com, or huffingtonpost, that it will not be believed by the majority of people on this blog.
The sheeple follow.. they do not listen to facts.
#17 Jeffrey, I do not now nor have I ever considered Obama a “messiah.” In fact, I don’t know anybody who does. That’s one of those falsehoods I keep hearing from the right.
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Ryan will destroy Biden in the debates.
It won’t matter if Biden even shows up for the debates. Rmoney’s ship is sinking.
Ryan has already destroyed Obama several times, especially during the GOP retreat in Baltimore in 2010 and during the Health Care Summit in 2010. If Ryan embarrassed Obama this bad, just think of what he is going to with Biden. It won’t be pretty.
“Have any of you all met Paul Ryan? We should get him to come to the university. I’m telling you this guy is amazing. … He is honest, he is straightforward, he is sincere. And the budget that he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit just like we did, by $4 trillion. … The president as you remember, came out with a budget and I don’t think anybody took that budget very seriously. The Senate voted against it 97 to nothing.” – Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles