Paul Ryan to appear at Roanoke County hardware store
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican candidate for vice president, will make a campaign stop in Southwest Roanoke County on Wednesday — specifically, at Northwest Hardware on Brambleton Avenue.
Earlier, it had been announced than Ryan would make an appearance somewhere in the Roanoke Valley.
This evening, state Sen. Ralph Smith, R-Roanoke County, sent out an announcement with the particulars. Smith advises that doors open at 7 a.m., with Ryan’s appearance at 8:30 a.m.
Smith’s email says:
“Parking Information and Details will be available at
http://www.mittromney.com/states/virginia”
August 20, 2012 - 8:07 PM
Yawn, is the little fellow bringing his moma with him also?
Lee just lost my business…
Might have to boycott Northwest for a while.
Ah yes…compared to Biden, Ryan’s visit will probably be somewhat boring. After all, there will be no shameless racial pandering…and no gaffes to laugh at. I’m guessing Ryan will know which state he is in.
From what I’ve heard he’s going to the hardware store to buy up all the chains and then headed to Danville.
Yeah Ryan’s great. He voted for the bailouts, warrantless wiretapping, perpetual war, no child left behind, bailing out GM, NDAA, CISPA, the list goes on.
Oh come on. Boycott a business because it gives a legitimate political candidate a forum to meet & talk with the electorate during the election season? That is ridiculous. I am not a supporter of Paul Ryan but I support any aspect of our effed-up political process that actually gets politicians out in public to meet real people.
The idiot baker in Radford who refused to host the Vice President of the United States of America (and who skipped out on his Blacksburg lease not long ago) isn’t going to see me darken his doorway. But Northwest Hardware is a good neighbor, a well-run locally owned company that provides a valuable service at reasonable prices with great service. And now they’re facilitating communication between a candidate and members of the electorate who can’t afford to buy access and influence via their own superPACs.
Northwest Hardware will continue to have my business, for sure.
Honorable Mr Ryan, a nominal Roman Catholic, has exuded worshipful praise for Ayn Rand – a prominent radical ANTI-CHRISTIAN. He even was invited and spoke at a tribute to her. She has been called by a ‘goddess’ to Republican (and other) economic conservatives.
One of this goddess’ dicta: ‘The Weak Should Not Be Loved’. This is a primary goal of her philosophy and economics.
Mr Ryan’s plans, indeed, express this value: that the weak should not be loved. Who are the weak: the sick, the elderly, the disabled and impaired, victims of prejudice and oppression, infants and children, etc. Mr Ryan’s plans would mangle support systems by which the weak can live.
Like so many, Mr Ryan expresses support to oppose abortion – the unborn are indeed among the weak – BUT his plans mangle support for infants and their families after the unborn are born, exposing a deviant hypocrisy and profound moral perversion.
One would hope that TEA Parties would speak up, since they express an interest in rights of human dignity and human liberty founded under the God of Creation; but even TEA Parties appear to care-less about the born after they are born and their families. There is no greater perversion than claiming to respect the rights of human dignity, while contributing to the mangling of human rights. The Creator of our human rights, no doubt, sees these perversions.
And, there is no greater ANTI-CHRISTIAN teaching that ‘The Weak Should Not Be Loved’. Yet that seems to be the Republican bumper sticker: The Weak Should Not Be Loved.
With the Republicans and TEA Parties and others worshipping ANTI-CHRISTIAN idols, and committing deviant moral perversions against the infants, the children, the sick, the poor, the elderly, and others one wonders if we are indeed begining End Times?
#7 In reality Northwest will probably continue to get my business as well because I generally hate Home Depot and Lowes, but, mark my words, while at Northwest, Ryan will once again take Obama’s words out of context and praise the local Northwests as an example of an individual building a business by himself. Do you think the location was chosen because of its ample space and luxury accommodations? Not hardly.
Tass, thanks for broaching the “idiot baker” topic. His recent bankruptcy filing in Blacksburg for a failed business most assuredly validates President Obama’s quip about “…if you started a business – you did not do it alone…”- of course, referring to all the tax breaks, small business federally-guaranteed loans, etc. – that business owners can avail themselves to. The baker’s being able to erase all his creditor liabilities and start afresh surely involves many more people than merely himself going it alone…yawn…
I wish business owners and entertainers stopped advertising their political beliefs to all. And that politicians would stop pandering for businesses to endorse them as well. Being that a lot of the country is split between left and right, whatever political opinion you espouse is probably going to turn off half of your potential customer base.
There has never been a yard/storefront sign or an entertainer’s opinion that changed my political views anyway.
Politicians should fight it out for themselves and people make up their own minds. A novel idea, for sure….
You wear your politics on your sleeve you pay the price. I am voting with my feet.
Start a protest/boycott against Northwest and watch their profits soar and Nobama’s approval rate fall even more. When are you crazy anti capitalist lefties gonna learn?
There are plenty of venues that are not having some business take a stand that is guaranteed to offend some of their customers, and for what? I think it is stupid, no matter what business does it.
I see the Crumb and Get It is milking his little piece of self-manufactured publicity for all it’s worth. Serving cookies at Northwest.
A guy who’s declared bankruptcy and stiffed his creditors has a lot of nerve giving anything away for free. He should be concentrating on paying back the money he owes, IMO. But hey, I’m just a bill paying democrat who’s never declared bankruptcy or run out on a landlord in the middle of the night, so what do I know.
Too bad all you baggers weren’t as supportive of the people who owned the Isaacs and Meze.
“He should be concentrating on paying back the money he owes”
Kristen , do tell, how much do they still owe Bob Pack?
“From what I’ve heard he’s going to the hardware store to buy up all the chains and then headed to Danville”
Danville, North Carolina?
Self-manufactured publicity? I think that OVERLY-conservative TV station WDBJ-7 and that OVERLY-conservative Roanoke Times were the first two media outlets to make biden’s shoo-away public…
#19 Nope, RT covered it pretty much only after it went national.
Ah gdad, so in other words, WDBJ picked up on the story first, then it made it to Drudge, then a few other blogs, then it went national, THEN the RT picked up on it (right in their backyard)?
Got it…