Posted on 08/23/2012 2:49:17 PM PDT by 56newblog
Well, about 2 weeks ago we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States. What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!
One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution. Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer’s, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".
Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.
When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents
After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse, and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes. Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville. He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.
For those who could not make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.
No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.
What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?
I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all! Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill? Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over.
I "WILL" VOTE THIS MAN..
So will I.
ANYONE who drove the Oscar Meyer Wiener Truck is better qualified than most of what we got now in Wash DC! Let’s get busy with winning this election....(!)
AGREE
I would have gone for this if I didn’t realize Ryan’s budget is just more fraudulence and gimmickry from the GOPe. It is essentially a lie to the conservative base, pretending to be a cut when it is nothing of the sort. It only cements further a system of “fixes” that are really part of the problem to begin with. Paul Ryan isn’t as conservative as we think, and I suspect his gimmickry, his false image and willingness to go along with TARP and other things is what got him the VP slot.
Beautiful! Thank you! Someday he’ll be our president, a REAL man of the people, not a poseur!
No offense, but Baloney.
Vote for Ryan this time.
Palin next time.
I will go even farther and suggest that the Oscar Meyer Wiener Truck itself is better qualified than most of what we got now in Wash DC.
Ryan is the new face of the GOP
“No offense, but Baloney.
Vote for Ryan this time.
Palin next time.”
No offense, but they’re setting up Paul Ryan to be President after Mitt the Gimmick has his reign. We’re being setup for a RINO monarchy. Try checking out his plan and explain to me how it is anything more than a “grow our way out of it” plan filled with assumptions from expectations as absurd as 2 percent unemployment and other voodoo nonsense.
Then the face of the GOP is a lie that will be shortly followed by an “Oh s***!” face when the government still goes bankrupt because of the “conservative” deficit reduction plan that didn’t reduce the deficit and maintained the “good parts” of ObamaCare.
How DUmmie trollish of you.
Better to drive the wiener truck than to be a wiener.
Troll —> RaisingCain
Up yours NhNoNuts. Be nice to get a rational response one of these days.
“How DUmmie trollish of you.”
Yeah okay, I’m the troll and you don’t even know what the hell I was talking about. Just keep emoting for your cult of personality, dimwit. Lets see how you like getting screwed by the GOPe because you fall for each and every one of their gimmicks.
So vote for Obama. No difference. Right?
VP is a bucket of warm spit. Now we have the best chairman of the Budget Committee ever yanked from the job he was doing so well to try to attract ignorant voters to a lousy Presidential candidate. Reminds me of 2008.
“So vote for Obama. No difference. Right?”
So make a stupid comment and embrace another wasted election after this one with two successive RINOs in a row. Meanwhile the economy will collapse most likely, if not this year, then during Romney’s term. So maybe it doesn’t matter after all.
YES, he will be the next VP of the USA—I am looking forward to the Debate between him and John Kerry (I predict Biden will be dumped and Kerry Selected) I also believe Obama will be pushed aside and Hillary will run in his place—But I have been saying this for years. Ryan will serve well!
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