CHEERS TO PAUL RYAN!
Posted on 08/10/2012 9:53:45 PM PDT by Brandonmark
UPDATE:: NBC News has three sources telling the network that Rep. Paul Ryan, (R) Wisconsin, is Mitt Romney's choice for Vice President.
Also the National Review reports the following: Earlier today, a charter plane took off in Boston, stopped in Chicago, then flew to the tiny airport in Janesville, Wis. Janesville, of course, is the hometown of Representative Paul Ryan, a top vice-presidential contender.
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Most likely the interest rate on that college loan is even lower than mortgage rates are now. So unless they have no other debt whatsoever and no plans to acquire any new debt in the next decade or so, it doesn't make financial sense to pay anything but the minimum on that loan. Doesn't make sense to give up $18,000 in debt at a 2.5% rate when you can add it to your down payment on a house and therefore avoid adding $18,000 more at a 4% rate onto your books.
I agree that McDonnell has a better resume (successful governor, Lt. Col in USA/USAR, etc.), but Romney and McDonnell together is a bit too similar appearance-wise (Romney is 65 and McDonnell is 58). Ryan adds some youth to the ticket, and I believe that he and Scott Walker can deliver Wisconsin for the Rs.
Lol, if you think talking about how many votes anyone's budget got during maneuvers by the parties in the House will be a campaign issue, well, go ahead and think it.
But it will be, and already has been, about Ryan pushing grannie in her wheelchair over the cliff, and any other detail of Ryan's proposals they can demagogue and make a campaign commercial from.
They just better make a convincing case for the need to reduce the deficits and stop piling debt on future taxpayers. The case can be made, but there hasn't been too much indication yet that the Romney team can or will make the case.
Bad pick, very very bad pick. Romney broke the first rule of “do no harm” to the ticket.
Ryan’s medicare plan will be headlined across the nation in a bad light and will not only lose the independent vote, it may very well lose a not-insignificant chunk of the over 55 moderate conservatives.
Regardless of the details of the Ryan budget, this is a game of politics, not policy. Every news channel and newspaper will say over and over again, Ryan wants to give each senior a $7,000 coupon to buy private insurance, that the coupon value increases with inflation (1 to 3 percent) while insurance costs go up 8 to 10 percent a year and then seniors are on their own...this will be a very steep hill to climb.
This pick will no doubt shore up the base but in the face of another 4 years of Obama, the base didn’t need to be shored up. We need the mushy middle. The Romney campaign needs a smack upside the head.
Even with the best case scenario, consider Florida’s 29 electoral votes gone.
Yup, be prepared. Again, it could have been worse. Morris mentioned Rubio had a couple of scandals (too close for comfort). Romney could have chosen Jesus Christ and something negative would have been trending on Twitter.
We just have to deal with it.
I heard it from a Dick Morris video. He was basically going down the list of negatives for all the VP possibilities. Paul Ryan's problem (the above mentioned) Morris brushed off as democrat silliness but gave us the heads up on it.
CHEERS TO PAUL RYAN!
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I've very reluctantly - and tentatively - decided to take a carton of clothepins with me to the polling place and pull the lever for The-RINO-Whose-Name-I-Will-Not-Speak. Even still, the statement above is utter nonsense.
The GOP candidate is a leftist. He isn't as much of a leftist as Obama, but he is a leftist. There's a very strong case to be made that electing him could destroy the conservative movement permanently. He won't govern as a conservative. You know that. I know that. He'll govern as a Gerald Ford or a Bush. And he'll almost certainly fail. And "conservatism" will be blamed for the failure.
I loathe him. But I'll vote for him becuase I'm convinced that he MIGHT make marginally better Supreme Court appointments - though his record in Massachussetts makes that more of an exercise in faith than anything. And I may well be wrong.
It might well be that it would be better in the long run to let Filth get reelected and have the whole thing come crashing down on the Dems and the left. To me it's a 51/49 proposition.
So I'll vote for WhatsHisName. But a conservative could very easily and justifiably skip the President and vote downticket only, or vote 3rd party.
Hank
That's the same as asking what do you prefer brain cancer or lung cancer.“Who do you prefer it be?”
If conservatives want to eliminate the cancer infecting both parties they need to stop electing the lesser of two evils.
Face it, you are never gonna be elected POTUS. If you walk around thinking that anyone who disagrees with you at all is evil, you can’t participate in the negotiation for the actual selection at all.There isn’t any principled way, tho, of selecting among more than two candidates - the guy who finishes third might be acceptable to more people than the guy who finishes second, or even first. What that tells me is that the point of voting realistically cannot be to select “the best person for the job” - but only to limit how bad the failure to select the best person for the job will actually be.
We know that we won’t select the best person for the job; I would argue that the best person for the job usually doesn’t even run for the job. With all the jerks we have in Congress, does it seem possible that there isn’t a lawyer, or a physician or a businessman anywhere in the half-million people in an congressional district who would be better than their actual congressman?
Time will tell. Just sick of the know-it-all naysayers on this, a conservative site, who seem to practically be water carriers for the dems and Obama day in and day out. Not saying you’re that, just the negativity has become the worst thing I can think of if you want your point of view considered-boring.
I never found him to be boring.
Better than all asshat and no cattle, like you.
Romney was already backing Ryan's plan, so it's not like the Dems couldn't have done it anyway. Besides, I see it as very hard to demagogue Paul Ryan. The guy looks and sounds like a boy scout. Besides, we all know the debt is the biggest fiscal cliff we're facing. I just can't believe our side can't turn that into a winning issue. It's not that hard for people to understand. People hate their student loan and mortgage debt, right? So why is it so hard to explain that a debt collectively shared by all of us can have consequences that are just as negative for the whole country? We need to win on our issues by winning the argument instead of backing away because we think the Dems will "Dem-agogue" us. That's just cowardice.
Ryan understands these issues and can explain fiscal issues better than most Republicans. He knows the numbers backwards and forwards. He can just get a tad long-winded, so he needs to work on being more succinct with his answers.
As opposed to the horse whipping Medicare is going to take under Obamacare?
This reminds me of the Harriet Miers nomination firestorm. Some on here wanted to just accept Bush's personal lawyer, because she seemed safe and inoffensive. But others were right to assert themselves and insist on a proven conservative nominee to the USSC. We got Alito, who has been excellent. In the same vein, I trust Paul Ryan to be able to articulate his case if he is in fact the nominee (of which we're not even sure yet).
He might not be as charismatic as West, or some of the others...but America most needs a good, steady set of hands at the helm now who can help control and curb government spending. Ryan seems to fit that need. His budget, though many have faulted it...still received over 200 votes of approval. Obama's received Zero.
Already been mentioned here
http://www.dickmorris.com/handicapping-the-vp-field-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/
Compared to Rubio (who was also mentioned among others) Ryan was one of the cleanest.
Watched him being interviewed a few days ago were he said that he spends his time in Washington, Mondays through Thursday and then flies home for the weekends to be with his family.
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