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NBC News: Paul Ryan is Romney VP choice
WEAU.com ^ | 8/11/12 | WEAU staff

Posted on 08/10/2012 9:53:45 PM PDT by Brandonmark

UPDATE:: NBC News has three sources telling the network that Rep. Paul Ryan, (R) Wisconsin, is Mitt Romney's choice for Vice President.

Also the National Review reports the following: Earlier today, a charter plane took off in Boston, stopped in Chicago, then flew to the tiny airport in Janesville, Wis. Janesville, of course, is the hometown of Representative Paul Ryan, a top vice-presidential contender.

(Excerpt) Read more at weau.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2012veep; mittromney; paulryan; ryan; ryan2012; ryanvp; virginia; vp; vpryan; wisconsin
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To: DJlaysitup
She married a guy who makes good money but has an $18,000 college loan debt. They are actually waiting on the "debt forgiveness" because they figure if they pay off the loan now they would be Saps

Most likely the interest rate on that college loan is even lower than mortgage rates are now. So unless they have no other debt whatsoever and no plans to acquire any new debt in the next decade or so, it doesn't make financial sense to pay anything but the minimum on that loan. Doesn't make sense to give up $18,000 in debt at a 2.5% rate when you can add it to your down payment on a house and therefore avoid adding $18,000 more at a 4% rate onto your books.

101 posted on 08/10/2012 11:05:59 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: All
I don't think that Ryan is boring at all. He speaks well and has excellent command of the issues. The most "exciting" thing about a politician is the enthusiasm he can bring out in others. If the pick is Ryan, he will bring out many conservatives who are holding their noses and voting for Romney. Ryan is also a Catholic and that group feels under siege right now with Obama's HHS rulings, and I bet many moderate and even Dem Catholics will be tempted to vote for Ryan.

I agree that McDonnell has a better resume (successful governor, Lt. Col in USA/USAR, etc.), but Romney and McDonnell together is a bit too similar appearance-wise (Romney is 65 and McDonnell is 58). Ryan adds some youth to the ticket, and I believe that he and Scott Walker can deliver Wisconsin for the Rs.

102 posted on 08/10/2012 11:06:01 PM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: John W
According to you.

Lol, if you think talking about how many votes anyone's budget got during maneuvers by the parties in the House will be a campaign issue, well, go ahead and think it.

But it will be, and already has been, about Ryan pushing grannie in her wheelchair over the cliff, and any other detail of Ryan's proposals they can demagogue and make a campaign commercial from.

They just better make a convincing case for the need to reduce the deficits and stop piling debt on future taxpayers. The case can be made, but there hasn't been too much indication yet that the Romney team can or will make the case.

103 posted on 08/10/2012 11:06:20 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Brandonmark

Bad pick, very very bad pick. Romney broke the first rule of “do no harm” to the ticket.

Ryan’s medicare plan will be headlined across the nation in a bad light and will not only lose the independent vote, it may very well lose a not-insignificant chunk of the over 55 moderate conservatives.

Regardless of the details of the Ryan budget, this is a game of politics, not policy. Every news channel and newspaper will say over and over again, Ryan wants to give each senior a $7,000 coupon to buy private insurance, that the coupon value increases with inflation (1 to 3 percent) while insurance costs go up 8 to 10 percent a year and then seniors are on their own...this will be a very steep hill to climb.

This pick will no doubt shore up the base but in the face of another 4 years of Obama, the base didn’t need to be shored up. We need the mushy middle. The Romney campaign needs a smack upside the head.

Even with the best case scenario, consider Florida’s 29 electoral votes gone.


104 posted on 08/10/2012 11:07:11 PM PDT by jackmercer
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To: Qbert
"Medicare" was trending recently on Twitter, with the expected, "Ryan wants to kill Medicare",

Yup, be prepared. Again, it could have been worse. Morris mentioned Rubio had a couple of scandals (too close for comfort). Romney could have chosen Jesus Christ and something negative would have been trending on Twitter.

We just have to deal with it.

I heard it from a Dick Morris video. He was basically going down the list of negatives for all the VP possibilities. Paul Ryan's problem (the above mentioned) Morris brushed off as democrat silliness but gave us the heads up on it.

105 posted on 08/10/2012 11:09:27 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Brandonmark

CHEERS TO PAUL RYAN!

106 posted on 08/10/2012 11:09:56 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: Typical_Whitey
"Anybody that says they won’t vote for this ticket is not Conservative..."

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I've very reluctantly - and tentatively - decided to take a carton of clothepins with me to the polling place and pull the lever for The-RINO-Whose-Name-I-Will-Not-Speak. Even still, the statement above is utter nonsense.

The GOP candidate is a leftist. He isn't as much of a leftist as Obama, but he is a leftist. There's a very strong case to be made that electing him could destroy the conservative movement permanently. He won't govern as a conservative. You know that. I know that. He'll govern as a Gerald Ford or a Bush. And he'll almost certainly fail. And "conservatism" will be blamed for the failure.

I loathe him. But I'll vote for him becuase I'm convinced that he MIGHT make marginally better Supreme Court appointments - though his record in Massachussetts makes that more of an exercise in faith than anything. And I may well be wrong.

It might well be that it would be better in the long run to let Filth get reelected and have the whole thing come crashing down on the Dems and the left. To me it's a 51/49 proposition.

So I'll vote for WhatsHisName. But a conservative could very easily and justifiably skip the President and vote downticket only, or vote 3rd party.

Hank

107 posted on 08/10/2012 11:10:14 PM PDT by County Agent Hank Kimball (Screw it. Newt's the smartest candidate and the guy I want to see debating Obummer. Flame away.)
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To: montanajoe
“Who do you prefer it be?”
That's the same as asking what do you prefer brain cancer or lung cancer.

If conservatives want to eliminate the cancer infecting both parties they need to stop electing the lesser of two evils.

Face it, you are never gonna be elected POTUS. If you walk around thinking that anyone who disagrees with you at all is evil, you can’t participate in the negotiation for the actual selection at all.

There isn’t any principled way, tho, of selecting among more than two candidates - the guy who finishes third might be acceptable to more people than the guy who finishes second, or even first. What that tells me is that the point of voting realistically cannot be to select “the best person for the job” - but only to limit how bad the failure to select the best person for the job will actually be.

We know that we won’t select the best person for the job; I would argue that the best person for the job usually doesn’t even run for the job. With all the jerks we have in Congress, does it seem possible that there isn’t a lawyer, or a physician or a businessman anywhere in the half-million people in an congressional district who would be better than their actual congressman?


108 posted on 08/10/2012 11:10:28 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Will88

Time will tell. Just sick of the know-it-all naysayers on this, a conservative site, who seem to practically be water carriers for the dems and Obama day in and day out. Not saying you’re that, just the negativity has become the worst thing I can think of if you want your point of view considered-boring.


109 posted on 08/10/2012 11:10:41 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: BushMeister
Paul Ryan has always amazed me with his knowledge. He has a way of making boring subjects such as budgets and finances not only understandable but interesting as well.

I never found him to be boring.

110 posted on 08/10/2012 11:12:28 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: EternalVigilance
"It’s like watching cattle go into the chutes."

Better than all asshat and no cattle, like you.

111 posted on 08/10/2012 11:14:22 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: jackmercer
Ryan’s medicare plan will be headlined across the nation in a bad light and will not only lose the independent vote, it may very well lose a not-insignificant chunk of the over 55 moderate conservatives.

Romney was already backing Ryan's plan, so it's not like the Dems couldn't have done it anyway. Besides, I see it as very hard to demagogue Paul Ryan. The guy looks and sounds like a boy scout. Besides, we all know the debt is the biggest fiscal cliff we're facing. I just can't believe our side can't turn that into a winning issue. It's not that hard for people to understand. People hate their student loan and mortgage debt, right? So why is it so hard to explain that a debt collectively shared by all of us can have consequences that are just as negative for the whole country? We need to win on our issues by winning the argument instead of backing away because we think the Dems will "Dem-agogue" us. That's just cowardice.

Ryan understands these issues and can explain fiscal issues better than most Republicans. He knows the numbers backwards and forwards. He can just get a tad long-winded, so he needs to work on being more succinct with his answers.

112 posted on 08/10/2012 11:14:29 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: jackmercer
"Ryan’s medicare plan will be headlined across the nation in a bad light"

As opposed to the horse whipping Medicare is going to take under Obamacare?

113 posted on 08/10/2012 11:15:49 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: woofie

Ryan vs. Obama at healthcare summitt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-lxg7XrF6I&feature=related


114 posted on 08/10/2012 11:17:53 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: All
Lots of posters on here who are terrified by the prospect of an attack on Ryan's budget. I have to ask: how the hell are we going to overcome the crushing and nearly intractable financial problems this nations faces with debt and entitlements if we can't even *talk* about the problem? Does everyone understand the amount of political wrangling and legislation that wold be necessary to actually make a dent in our problems? Has anyone besides Ryan even offered a flesh-ed out proposal to reduce the deficit or address spending?

This reminds me of the Harriet Miers nomination firestorm. Some on here wanted to just accept Bush's personal lawyer, because she seemed safe and inoffensive. But others were right to assert themselves and insist on a proven conservative nominee to the USSC. We got Alito, who has been excellent. In the same vein, I trust Paul Ryan to be able to articulate his case if he is in fact the nominee (of which we're not even sure yet).

115 posted on 08/10/2012 11:19:33 PM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Brandonmark
It is obvious that there were a lot of good people from whom to chose. However, I think Romney wanted the person who is strongest on economic issues and has the clearest handle on what it will take to improve our economy. Ryan, whose intelligent attack on Obamacare and his direct approach to Obama at the Health Care Summit Link to Ryan speaking at Health Care Summit has what Romney needs in a running mate at this time. He is a clear thinker, analytical, and able to cut through the crap in a concise, logical manner.

He might not be as charismatic as West, or some of the others...but America most needs a good, steady set of hands at the helm now who can help control and curb government spending. Ryan seems to fit that need. His budget, though many have faulted it...still received over 200 votes of approval. Obama's received Zero.

116 posted on 08/10/2012 11:20:13 PM PDT by CitizenM (Obama - The architect of the decline of the U.S.)
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To: montanajoe
If you are not voting for Romney and maybe Ryan then are you so selfish and immature that you want me and other tea partiers to do your fighting to save America. It was folks like you that gave us Hopey Changey and just to spite all the caring Conservative American will hide in a closet and let Obama have your vote.
117 posted on 08/10/2012 11:20:49 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (I would rather be hung with a few brave conservatives than live a lifetime with cowardly liberals.)
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To: jackmercer

Already been mentioned here

http://www.dickmorris.com/handicapping-the-vp-field-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

Compared to Rubio (who was also mentioned among others) Ryan was one of the cleanest.


118 posted on 08/10/2012 11:20:59 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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Ryan’s 2012 CPAC Keynote Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek2v_SyRBR8


119 posted on 08/10/2012 11:20:59 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: driftdiver; Brandonmark
Because of course Ryan is going to be in his hometown instead of washington where he actually spends most of his time.

Watched him being interviewed a few days ago were he said that he spends his time in Washington, Mondays through Thursday and then flies home for the weekends to be with his family.

120 posted on 08/10/2012 11:21:21 PM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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