I agree with Ryan completely on entitlement reform, but he would be a bad choice politically in a national race. Lowry is just mistaken here. And I like Lowry, too.
I believe it is Ryan, maybe announced today or tomorrow.
I would respect a Ryan pick.
I love Paul Ryan, although I hate to lose him in the House.
Romney/Ryan has a nice ring to it, although I’d like Ryan/Romney even better!
But Ryan wouldn't help him either. I think we can balance the budget without touching entitlements. We need more and better audits and controls to weed out fraud, but no arbitrary cuts in entitlements.
The main thing we need to do to balance the budgets is create jobs. And that can be done with import tariffs, closing the border to new workers, expelling the ones that are here illegally, and completely removing regulations on small employers.
Trying to balance the budget without addressing the economy is ridiculous.
But Ryan wouldn't help him either. I think we can balance the budget without touching entitlements. We need more and better audits and controls to weed out fraud, but no arbitrary cuts in entitlements.
The main thing we need to do to balance the budgets is create jobs. And that can be done with import tariffs, closing the border to new workers, expelling the ones that are here illegally, and completely removing regulations on small employers.
Trying to balance the budget without addressing the economy is ridiculous.
I would love to see Ryan, an articulate spokesman for conservatism, contrasted with dullards like Portman or Pawlenty.
I also think it’s high time that we start looking to the House of Representatives for leadership instead of senators, who think of themselves as ruling aristocrats. A former chairman of a House committee as head of the Senate. It will drive them nuts! And a true conservative no less. Move over McConnell, Ryan is the PRESIDENT of the senate. You’re just the majority leader.
Yes, I’m all for Ryan!
I hope Romney pick Ryan, but I doubt he has the courage to pick someone like that. I think he will pick a dull mushy wuss like himself. I think Romney is going to be a disappointment to conservatives in almost everything he does. I hope I am wrong.
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Ryan has shown himself to be nothing special and he didn't go far in selling his ‘plan’ (it wasn't a real bill as he pointed out many times on the defensive) when he got House Republicans to vote for it. He started saying ‘its only a idea to start the conversation, not a real bill’ to defend himself
Ryan did join Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Obama in voting for the debt limit deficit reduction bill, the one that the same Republicans are now calling the doomsday budget cuts and and trying to repeal. This was a real accomplishment passed into law that they braggged about and now they disown it claiming it's all Obama's.
I personally think the whole thing was a non-serious scam to hold off primary challenges.
Ryan is not especially charismatic either.
The WSJ has an excellent and insightful lead editorial on why Ryan, btw.
This looks pretty good, doesn't it?...
ROMNEY/RYAN!
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Needless to say, if Romney is as politically-astute and intelligent as I, he will choose Ryan, LOL......and I think he will!
Leni
If the options are Ryan, Portman, Pawlenty or Christie, I’m all in for Ryan.
That is precisely why Romney won’t pick Ryan. I’m afraid Willard is a candidate who thinks he can manage the welfare state better than the Democrats. And not that he wants to destroy it. The Mittster is trying very hard not to appear to be one of those awful Tea Party types who believe in the constitution and limited government. So we’ve got Mitt The Bland as our candidate. I’m prepared to eat crow if he picks Ryan. But I don’t think I’ll be wrong. (Where’s that bottle of ketchup?)
Best of the four, if you count Krispy Kreme.
LLS
Romney/Ryan sounds good, but Romney/Rubio sounds better. This is a race mostly about demographics. Romney has the white male vote, and needs to appeal to either Hispanics or women much better than he currently does. If he picks Rubio or Martinez he grabs a lot more votes than he would by selecting a wonky white guy, and this type of VP pick more greatly neuters the rabidly leftist media. Like it or not, Hispanics and women will greatly decide this election and many more to come, so it’s high time for the GOP to get ahead of the curve.
I will be most happy if Ryan is chosen, over all of the other front runners. Forty two, three kids, Catholic, sounds great to me. One odd, sinister item about him from Wiki, his great grandfather died at 59, his grandfather at 57, and his father at 55, all heart attacks....
This is what I think Sarah Palin would handle well. She took on the political establishment in Alaska with a "Make my day!" approach ... and WON!