[Da Bilge Troll]

This stuff bothers me. But then I think, "Barak Obama hates this guy" and I feel better.

[4rcane]

his answer bother me. We need government intervention to save capitalism is what he is saying

[andyk]

Excellent circumlocution, Ryan. Sounded just like Obama in defending his TARP vote.

[yldstrk]

he better have a good one

[RobbyS]

In a war, you don’t always get to have the choices you want.

[Jim Robinson]

I rest my case.

[skeeter]

In spite of want we may wish, there is not a single perfect candidate in DC.

Paul Ryan is a good man. We republicans have to stop self destructing.

[rabidralph]

It’s the lack of leadership that is always most bothersome. Why does the media paint him as a conservative leader? If he were a leader, he would have taken a stand and not voted for these bills. But he’s the most conservative RINO of all the others Romney was considering.

[Theoria]

Do you have one where he explains his votes for the Medicare Plan D and No Union Teacher Left Behind?

[anchorclankor]

There is a right way to vote and there is a wrong way to vote, if you vote the wrong way all the mumbo jumbo coming out of your mouth cannot and will not make it a good vote. All the lip stick in the world will not adhere to the lips of that particular swine.

[Erik Latranyi]

You can look at this two ways:

1) Ryan is a good conservative who got caught up in the politics of the moment and tried to make bad votes into better votes.

2) Ryan is a good RINO who votes for what the establishment wants at crucial junctures.

[3Fingas]

Not buying his vote on TARP, but Ryan is a thousand times better than anyone in this current administration. I think that Ryan is a capable man who will be asset to Romney should he get elected.

[NoobRep]

Back in 2010, I would have been less forgiving of Ryan for these votes. But after seeing Cesar Obammus and his Chicago thugs twist arms, issue executive orders and stomp all over the Consititution in the past few years, Ryan is probably right. This band of Bolsheviks was going to get their way one way or another. Ryan was simply not put in a position to win.

All water under the bridge now. There’s not an alternative right now.

[entropy12]

TARP was the result, NOT the cause. The real causes were forcing banks to lend mortgages to sub-par borrowers AND removing Glass-Steagall law which prevented banks from gambling with depositer's money. By the time TARP was needed, the patient was on death bed and extreme measures became necessary to save complete collapse and chaos in the financial system.

[dila813]

So the here are the translated answers using straight talk:
1. I screwed up and didn’t think carefully out of fear
2. Because of my previous screw up, I feared it getting worse
3. Because of my first screw up, I felt I was getting taken advantage of

The mark of a true believer of conservatism is one who sticks to principles when the water is most murky.

I think this shows he is well read and applies these principles only when he doesn’t have to fear that there will be any immediate pain.

[TADSLOS]

Good LIL’ RINO plays along and gets VP nod because he’s portrayed as a conservative. Beat that drum, GOP.

[TomEwall]

lol