Posted on 08/14/2012 11:34:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...As I traveled through central Ohio last week--before Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan for his ticket--I heard a constant refrain that Rob Portman, the Republican senator from Ohio, could provide Romney with the margin of victory in the state in November.
And it wasn’t just from Republicans like Rep. Pat Tiberi (who would have been a leading contender to fill Portman’s Senate seat had he won). “Senator Portman on the ticket would help tremendously in southwestern Ohio, where he's from,” Tiberi said. “That is the Republican bastion of the state, and that's where he would help, I think, drive up support for the Romney ticket.”
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Folks, I’ll make it plain and simple for you. Ohio is going for Romney/Ryan. So.....is Florida. How can I be so sure. Easy......voting demographics, Obama in money troubles, Biden is insane and.....neither Biden or Obama are drawing any significant rally crowds. What does this mean?
First the Republican primary voting is going gangbusters, the Dems are not showing up, second, Obama is having great difficulty raising money, Biden is totally insane as the nutcase buffoon, and last, Obama, the POTUS is not drawingany signifcant rally crowds. The American people have his number.
So.....the Obamabot media can rant, rave, lie and spin all it wants to, it is still not going to help Obama and the Democrat Party. The lie campaign is just proving to the American people and voters that Obama and his cronies have no substance, no plan, other then their sworn purpose to take down the USA!!!
So......I would suggest you ignore anything and everything that comes from the Obama contolled media. Shame on them for working so hard to destroy their very own nation. There is a word for them you know....it’s called treason!!!
Portman is as boring a non-entity as this, my beloved native State, could possibly produce and I was personally very relieved to hear that he was not the choice. That vote in the Senate is far more important than anything he could conceivably do as VP. And did I mention that he is paint dry and grass grow watch boring? Ryan, on the other hand, has ample brains and native charisma and given sufficient exposure in the State (which any Republican MUST still win to be elected) I think he might be a genuine asset in Ohio.
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Ryan graduated from Miami University in Ohio.
5 generations in SW Ohio and I agree with you. I cannot find anyone, out side his family and business associates, who is enthused about Portman. But Ryan does the job and has a better chance of helping carry Ohio than Portman.
The liberal has spoken. We should all be quiet now...
LOL! Well said.
Greenfield is an idiot if he thinks listening to people from Central Ohio gives him a clue about SW Ohio. But SW Ohio is not the problem, it will go Romney no matter what, the problem is NE Ohio. If Ryan can win Wisconsin then he can win NE Ohio.
My intestines are rumbling - time to go take a Greenfield.
I agree!. Three words come to mind in this: “Scott”, “Walker”, and “Wisconsin”. The so-called MSM had this “too close to call” hours after the voting started, into the early evening, when it was already over. We are on to Obama, bigtime, and nothing will change that. Voters are no longer afraid of being viewd as “racist” in exit polls - that dog don’t hunt anymore. Conservatives need to be “broken glass voters” to end this four years national nightmare.
The liberal has spoken. We should all be quiet now...
The liberal has spoken. We should all be quiet now...
I agree, R&R take OH as we’ll as FLA, VA, IN, NC, WI, MO..I dont really see these as toss-ups. IA, CO, PA, NM, NH, NV....these are toss ups. When MI and MN re being discussed as being competitive, the demholes have big problems....
Ryan is speaking at Miami University in Oxford tomorrow at 5:00!
Greenfield is still alive?
I hate to risk jinxing VA but after 2010 and electing McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli (very conservative, pro lifer) just before that, VA definitely looks good for R& R.
haha. i live in ohio and am pretty informed. I know of
Portmans background,smart renaisscance (sp?) man,Bush years, etc. But he makes NO news here in ohio. He is image-
free,which for a politician i guess is a good thing. I doubt many ohio voters would have been PUMPED if
he had been the selection. Ryan’s got CHARISMA and all the
other stuff too.
I don’t know. PA and OH are big coal states. Romney needs to tailor his ads there to that demographic. The coal industry is being crushed.
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