“Except for his unfortunate go along to get along support of TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending and the increased credit limit, etc, “
Except that if you really look at the record of his votes. He didn’t do what you claimed. If you examine HR 1586 - Aid To States for Medicaid, Teacher Employment, and Other Purposes - Key Vote you find that the TARP portion was a tax against bonuses from TARP that was added on to the original bill.
http://votesmart.org/bill/8954/tarp-recipient-bonuses-tax
Dec 2009, he voted against a debt limit extension. The one you seem to be focused on...the so called Boehner Bill was the one that had tax cuts and spending caps tied to it that went down to defeat int he Senate and put my paycheck as a member of the military in jeopardy.
You also fail to mention that he voted yea on H J Res 77 Disapproval of the President’s Authority to Raise the Debt Limit two months later as well as voting for the debt control act.
“And the fact that he advocated that abortion should be safe and legal in America for over three decades of his adult lifetime and even advocated that Roe v Wade should be supported and sustained as settled law precludes any consideration whatsoever by this pro-life Christian for Myth Romney for the presidency.”
Again sir, with all due respect if you look at his voting record, you are incorrect.
Feb. 18, 2011 H Amdt 95 Prohibiting Use of Federal Funds For Planned Parenthood Amendment Adopted - House (240 - 185) Yea
Paul Ryan voted to stop federal funds from being used for Planned Parenthood.
You want to falsely ding him on abortion..yet the Godfather of modern Conservatism Ronal Reagan signed a bill in California making abortion legal. A move he publicly stated later he came to regret. Does that make him or his actions as President any less important?
“And the fact that he boasted that he would be better for “gay rights” than Ted Kennedy, and proved it just increases my resistance.”
Link? I’ve never heard him make that statement. Anywhere. In fact he voted against the repeal of DADT.
“That, and his penchant for gun control”
How does someone who voted in favor of allowing loaded guns into Federal Parks in your mind have a “penchant for gun control”?
As for the rest of what you posted...I’m simply going to refer you to where I found the information to refute what you’ve said above...his voting record:
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26344/
Read it...don’t read it...it’s up to you. But it confused my why and how you..who’ve been so clear on political issues and able to see through the Libtard propaganda before...have fallen for it now. It makes me shake my head.
I’d like nothing more than to debate this with you...but given how things have been going here lately this will probably be my last post because I’ll get banned for disagreeing with JR. I hope I’m proven wrong.
FR has been a wonderful place for me...found it by listening to Rush. I’ve met some wonderful people had some great debates and had my heart truly warmed by the outpouring of support for soldiers and members of the military like myself.
That being said however, the journalist and political junkie in me can’t stand idly by and watch someone who, by words and deeds is a solid conservative be trashed in this way.
Ryn is a solid pick that has the Dems sh*tting themselves right now. For our side to throw him under the bus without the facts in hand makes the Conservatives/Republicans that willingly go along look like the denizens of DU. We’re smarter than that.
Jim I ask you to take a look at his record and reconsider what you’ve said.
Read later.
As JR said, Ryan voted supported TARP, the auto bailouts, every Bush budget, every debt limit increase under Bush, no Child Left Behind, also known as no union member left behind.
When the tough got going, Ryan sided with Gov't. He will fold like a cheap suit.
Ryan's fiscal plans are a joke. He intends to increase the size and scope of the budget, while his economic prediction of said budget proposals are nothing but fantasy.
Although in the past Romney has these worng positions, he indicates he has changed and now for the last 6+ years has been advocating conservative positions. People are using his past to judge him now. But his [POSTIONS NOW] make it clear what he is running on in 2012...as it did in 2008 when Jim supported him against McCain.
I would love to have a chance for Romney to show these changes are in fact solid and real by serving in the Senate or somewhere else for a few years...but now we do not have that luxury. He has picked Ryan, which is a much more conservative pick than many here felt he would make. And he is running against an abject Marxist who, with a will, and openly, is going about fundamentally changing our Republic and destroying it.
We do not have the luxury of years...we need to remove Obama now...and sad as it is, it will either be Obama or Romney for President. We need Romney in there with a majority House and Senate so he can enact what he has promised. If he does, the nation will turn around and Romney will be remembered in history as a huge turning point for the good of the Republic.
If we do not, Obama will drive us headlong into the ground.