Posted on 08/11/2012 5:33:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For Tea Party activists uninspired by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the choice of fiscally conservative Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate might allow them to vote in November without holding their noses.
Hours after Romney's announcement on Saturday, Tea Partiers' reactions ranged from "Wow!" to "a step up from Romney" to "this doesn't change a thing for me" - what one would expect from a notoriously fragmented coalition bound by a desire for smaller government.
Many hailed the selection of as a sign of fiscally conservative movement's growing influence on the Republican Party platform. Others said it will not eradicate the enthusiasm deficit among conservatives that has dogged the former Massachusetts governor's campaign.
"This absolutely brings excitement to the ticket," said Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, who said she her reaction was "Wow!" when she heard the news. "This gives us something to vote for rather than voting against (incumbent Democratic U.S. President Barack) Obama."
The main reason for that excitement is, as Dooley puts it, that Ryan has "bold ideas for true reform."
The blend of tax and spending cuts that the congressman and chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee has laid out in what has been called the "Ryan plan" broadly reflects the Tea Party movement's core tenets of fiscal responsibility and limited government.
Although Democrats have lambasted the "Ryan plan" as an extreme measure that would gut Medicaid and Social Security for the elderly, some fiscal conservatives deem it too timid...
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
VP is a don’t care. His only value is as an attack dog during the campaign. Then he’s just a figurehead to be ignored. We’ll see if he has any value - over the next 3 months.
I can’t wait to vote in November!
We are flying our RED, WHITE, AND, BLUE proudly today!
I can’t wait to vote in November!
We are flying our RED, WHITE, AND, BLUE proudly today!
Better than I expected. (Does that make me a Mittbot?)
Although Democrats have lambasted the “Ryan plan” as an extreme measure that would gut Medicaid and Social Security for the elderly, some fiscal conservatives deem it too timid...
Ryan will cause the milk to sour within the cow and the hens to stop laying! Ryan will kill the crop in the field and make babys breech!
I will vote for a conservative. All the way down the ticket.
Is there a Conservative Presidential candidate?
Yes.
You do know that a posting style is very identifying, don't you?
Welcome to Free Republic.
/johnny
seems there’s more behoovin’ for removin’ Paul’s b@!!$
“I can’t wait to vote in November!
We are flying our RED, WHITE, AND, BLUE proudly today!”
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I am very pleased as well and looking forward to Obama’s eviction from the WH. Everyone that I’ve spoke w/ today had positive things to say about Paul Ryan.
You do know that a posting style is very identifying, don’t you?
Welcome to Free Republic.
/johnny
There's no need for a welcome. We've had previous exchanges.
The first time you posted to me you came out with a bunch of weird, paranoid stuff. This is the second time you've implied weird stuff. I've posted responses to you several times since then without you getting all freaky so my “posting style” should be “familiar.”
Is this a monthly issue with you? Had you served in most of my military units, someone would have placed a bottle of pampirin and a tube of vagisil in your gear. These days that's something liberals call a "hate-crime."
My question was semi-serious. I don't believe there is a “Conservative” Presidential candidate; there are nothing more than two liberals, with one being more liberal than the other.
In some of your posts, you've seemed to express the opinion that Romney is not a conservative.
This morning, I checked out Ryan on votesmart.org, he's not perfect, but acceptable. Unfortunately, we can't indicate a position switch for the President and Vice positions...
A welcome is traditional for people that just signed up.
Sometimes it's sincere. Sometimes it's ominous.
/johnny
You just seemed a bit weird, like the creepy guy the manager doesn’t want to fire. Since then, until this evening, you seemed pretty much normal. So I figured you just had a bad day or got friendly with the bottle, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
In our first exchange, you didn’t extend a welcome. I think I’d been here for a little less than a month (not sure).
You weren’t the worst I’ve seen. During the first few days after I signed up and after I was able to post comments, I had some complete freak spazzing out at me. A lot of others told him to cool it and he accused them of “kissing up to the nubie.” By some the the crazy stuff he posted I swear he was foaming at the mouth and beating his face on his keyboard. I haven’t crossed paths with him since.
By the way, someone put something in your Rucksack...
You can find out the very day that you signed up. 12-03-31, perzactly.
Since you don't know where my ruck or my alice gear is stored, I suppose you or 'someone' haven't stuck anything untoward into it.
/johnny
I like Paul Ryan but he’s not even enough to get me to vote for a Romney ticket. Paul Ryan is like a child’s balloon tied to a Mitt Romney anchor - not enough to keep the whole thing from sinking.
Your "beliefs and priciples are going to kill the rest of us right along with you. if you want to be a martyr, call Kevorkian.
Your “beliefs and priciples are going to kill the rest of us right along with you. if you want to be a martyr, call Kevorkian.
Would you demand that we all abandon our beliefs and principles, and tow the party line? We might as well be Liberals!
By the way, if he were to call Kevorkian, the end result would be a vote for the Democrats as the dead are among their top voters. Unfortunately, most of the GOP are too gutless to call them on it. Those who do are undercut by their own top party officials.
I suffer the same pain as you and those who will not vote Romney no m,atter how the chips may fly. I guess the difference is that if a doctor tells me that I have a choice of procedures for him to perform. One will take both legs and leave me a 20 percent chance of life over the next 8 years; the other will take both legs, an arm and a kidney and leave me less than one percent survival rate over a four year period. I prefer to go with the odds for life instead of throwing in the towel and admitting defeat.
We saw 2010 as a positive and hoped for things to be better - still too many RINOs seated and if Obama gets another 4 years, the machine will kick into full suppressive force and the odds of any kind of turn-around diminish exponentially.
I suppose we are screwed either way, but I prefer to at least roll the dice and pray for a miracle - Romney might actually follow through on some of the conservative ideas he has put out there - Obama and his ilk will only work all the harder to destroy what's left.
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