The first time I saw Rep. Ryan was during the WH Summit with the GOP on Healthcare. Rep. Ryan made a impression on The One:
Posted on 08/08/2012 4:44:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not if you follow FreeRepublic. It is about homosexuality. And a lot of people are falling for the diversion.
Rubio isn’t eligible.
Obama is deathly afraid of this one. He knows that any discussion with Ryan about economic facts quickly turns into a major embarrassment for Obama.
Dear Congressman Ryan:
Regarding the article in today’s National Review Online urging you to run for President of the United States, please give this serious consideration, sir. I am 73 years old, and I have never been so fearful for my country and my grandchildren and their collective future. In order to work our way out of the mess we are in, we need leadership that, rather than playing to the crowd, can understand and articulate the severity of our current situation, and the steps needed to correct our current course. I understand and even admire your hesitancy to leave your role in Congress. You have made, and continue to make, important contributions there, and the personal demands of the Presidency are fearful. But the nation now needs your gifts and skills on the larger stage.
I take the liberty of writing you not as one of your constituents but as one of your countrymen. In these very troubled days, we need our very best.
Thank you for your time, and for all your past work on our nation’s behalf.
Well, that didn't work out, but he could still play a key role as VP. He can frame the issues clearly, with humor and a smile, just the way the great RR could. He'd be a GREAT pick!
I agree Ryan is tempting, but I still support Palin.
Romney - Ryan......kinda rolls off the tongue............
I can see the Obozobots using this as an anti-Romney-Ryan campaign prop............DON'T BE RAILROADED BY THE WHITE GUYS!
Also, Ryan is not afraid of Obama at all, and read him the riot act about obamacare.
I think he would be a good pick. I don’t know how much RINO he has in him, but he knows the budget and articulates it well.
At least we would have one conservative on the ticket.
Pray for America
RE: I was hoping he would replace John Boehner.
Well if he becomes the VP, he’s probably going to be less than useful compared to where he is now. As VP, he’ll sorta be just waiting for the following things to happen:
1) Something serious (God forbid) happens to Mitt Romney
2) He needs to break a tie in Congress.
Otherwise, he’ll just be sitting there as a ceremonial figure... just saying.
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I believe that the idea is that if Rep. Ryan is picked as the vice presidential nominee, his job will be to go out and aggressively explain budgetary matters in the countryside. I think the idea is to permit Gov. Romney to rise above the fray and look presidential while Rep. Ryan slams the anti-Christ regime for wishing to destroy Medicare through neglect, and the country through overspending.
Vice presidential candidates often play a surrogate role in campaigns. Ryan versus Biden would be the perfect match-up for each candidate. Rep. Ryan would appeal to those with brains. Biden would appeal to the scum and filth of the earth.
Not to take (anything) from your analysis. It is good.
However how does that change, if Hillary is the Dem’s VP nominee?
Just asking. Still prefer Sarah Palin.
If Gov. Romney wants to nail his victory shut, he should select Paul Ryan as his running mate and announce that VP Ryan will have a direct role in supervising the Office of Management and Budget in Romney’s first term.
This would be a check mate, winner for Romney/Ryan and for the country. This would cause an absolute meltdown for the Democrats.
Yes - plus Ryan will then be the GOP nominee in eight years. We could do (and have often done) a lot worse.
Thanks.
Certainly it changes things if they replace the gutter snipe Biden with Mrs. Clinton.
A match-up of Rep. Ryan against Biden truly borders on the immoral abuse of the mentally retarded. I can picture the vice presidential debates where Rep. Ryan calmly explains that to do nothing with Medicare is to destroy it, that the Obama regime's plan for Medicare is essentially to leave it unchanged in its essential form, and that therefore, the Obama/Biden plan is to destroy it. Or bankrupt the country to avoid doing so.
And then the slithering creature Biden will huff and puff and lie and bluster, foam at the mouth, tell folks that you have to be Indian to own a 7-11, go off on a tangent on why it's reasonable that the Secret Service is paying him $12,000 per year rent to guard him on his own property, and will look like the idiot he is.
But against Mrs. Clinton, in that she can actually read, write, and add and subtract without the use of fingers and toes, Rep. Ryan will have to work a little harder.
Nonetheless, she has a long record of “more of the same,” and I think that folks can be made to understand that “more of the same” isn't what's going to fix the American economy, health care, or anything.
Disclaimer: I'm not promoting Rep. Ryan above other potential candidates. I think Rep. Ryan is a great, great guy, and would be a great vice presidential candidate. But I think strong cases can be made for other candidates, too, and Rep. Ryan is not without possible weaknesses as a candidate. I'm merely repeating what I've heard from sources somewhat closer to the action than I am.
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Check this out:
How to Spot Romney’s Vice President Pick in Advance
http://techpresident.com/news/22680/how-spot-romneys-vice-president-pick-advance
Cantor.
Same general pedigree.
More squishy/establishment. Bonus, backhand to conservatives.
Virginia.
More to Romney’s style.
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