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Is it really Paul Ryan?

Posted on 08/10/2012 11:38:32 PM PDT by wrhssaxensemble

Anyone else wondering if maybe this could be a cover for the pick of Rubio? I've noticed that so far Rob Portman and Tim Pawlenty have announced that they received calls from Romney saying they wouldn't be his runningmate but declined to say who will. Thus far I haven't (correct me if I missed it) heard that Rubio has not heard it. It also seems strange that this news would leak this early and the time picked for the event tomorrow also seems odd. Does anyone else think that maybe the rumors about Ryan is just a cover for the pick of someone else, likely Rubio?


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To: Bobalu

Romney is smart and has the best pollsters.

I had it like this:
if he was +5 Pawlenty
+2 Portman;
Dead heat and Florida and Ohio were good Ryan would be the pick.
-2 Rubio if Florida looked bad.
-5 Christy.


61 posted on 08/11/2012 2:59:12 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: cgbg

So what was the point of the whole tea party thing?

We ended up with Romney who pretty much invented Obamacare and was pro choice until last week.

And in his first big decision he picks someone who voted for TARP, Medicare Part D, NCLB, the Auto Bailout, all of W’s bloated budgets, basically every expansion of the fedl govt that took place under W he voted for, never said a word while W was doubling the natl debt, a guy who voted with Bush 95% of the time, a guy who has been in DC for 15 years and is a career establishment insider and politician, and whose big selling point is a budget that doesn’t balance until 2035 and keeps spending levels far higher than they were under Clinton.

Romney and Ryan are as establishment and as insider as you can get. Representing the very establishment the tea party is fighting against.

They’re popping the champagne corks in the beltway today.


62 posted on 08/11/2012 3:36:23 AM PDT by jeltz25
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To: zipper
the fact that Rubio is not a natural born citizen, and therefore not eligible.

This is not a fact, it is your opinion. It will only become a fact when the Supreme Court provides a precise definition of NBC.

Not to hijack the thread.

63 posted on 08/11/2012 4:07:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Not to hijack the thread....

....but they did, in 1875.


64 posted on 08/11/2012 4:16:24 AM PDT by zipper (espions sur les occupants)
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To: mlizzy
The article also mentions Ryan worked as a salesman for Oscar-Mayer when he was in college.

So he takes the Weiner vote away from Anthony.

65 posted on 08/11/2012 4:19:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: wrhssaxensemble

This fascination with Rubio is odd.

He was never in the running at all - a construct of some people’s personal wish, he does have negatives that will not go away, he has repeatedly said that he is not interested in moving up just yet, which is a good career decision at this early point in his political service, and yet some just keep pounding the Rubio theme.
Even after Ryan is disclosed as the presumptive choice!

Rubio is my Senator and I’m happy about that, but the unsubstantiated belief that Hispanics will flock en mass to vote for a Cuban is without merit.

His positions are very much like Jeb Bush and you all want to pander with that?
No thanks, Ryan is a good conservative choice.
Not my 1st choice, but a good one.


66 posted on 08/11/2012 4:19:40 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: DRey; GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

t’s about FLORIDA, and Cubans, and Rubio’s state that would surely go red with Rubio as VP.

for good reasons, I believe that is very wrong.
I live here in Florida and right off the bat, the Cuban Americans are pretty conservative GOP voters.
Rubio isn’t going to add to those numbers, and other hispanics do not really care for him in any meaningful way that will vastly change if he was ever considered for VP.

Florida is going Pub this election cycle and by more than any “margin of error.”

Ryan is a solid conservative and now its off to the convention!
I can see November! Its Ohio we had all best worry about in a big way.


67 posted on 08/11/2012 4:28:53 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: wrhssaxensemble

It could be a cover for.....Palin!!!!


68 posted on 08/11/2012 4:40:10 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I eschew sarcasm tags. They’re for the others.


69 posted on 08/11/2012 4:50:53 AM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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To: zipper
No they did not. Not even Mark Levin agrees with you on Rubio’s eligibility.
70 posted on 08/11/2012 4:56:03 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: djf

Wow! I didn’t know NWS was part of Homeland Security! What are the wackjob libs planning? Are they gonna start a revolution, a roundup of right thinking citizens or race riots?

I really wouldn’t put anything past these repulsive POS.


71 posted on 08/11/2012 4:56:10 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MachIV

Oh, come on now!


72 posted on 08/11/2012 5:35:48 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: wrhssaxensemble
He picked the wrong Ryan. Would have a lock with this one.


73 posted on 08/11/2012 5:55:25 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: wrhssaxensemble

Their only plan is to be offended as gays because they work by the bribing system. Collective f@g bargaining is still f@g bargaining. It’s such bull crap extortion system and cowardice. What a bunch of losers.

Socialism are nice words for liberals to accept bribes. TEll them in their face what the deal is, they refuse under pretense they cannot accept bribes. But make it look moraly correct, and they take it. DOuble faced hypocrites and coward Idiots.


74 posted on 08/11/2012 6:46:24 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: bill1952
I believe you. I lived in Florida in 2004 and "knew" Bush had it. In 2008 was in Texas and friends in Florida were worried -- "felt sure" Obama had it.

As for Ohio...
75 posted on 08/11/2012 11:51:45 AM PDT by DRey
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To: Mikey_1962

That’s a smart analysis Mikey!

You should be a political consultant :-)


76 posted on 08/11/2012 12:09:55 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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