Mitt Romney announces Paul Ryan as running mate
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One poll.
Officerrob
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Read the Ryan budget plan
Because he's a fringe nutcase that doesn't appeal to independents at all, and the move reeks of the same sort of weird hail mary like desperation that McCain fell to.
gutter_trash
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the timing is also laughable, on the closing days of the Olympics when nobody will give a crap about Romney's announcement
metalslimer
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Because his plan will end up with states having to cut even more money for education, healthcare, etc and it will pretty much destroy medicare? What other reason do you need? Name one thing he has said he wants to do that would benefit anyone other than millionaires?
Thunder Monkey
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*uncomfortable laughter*
again:
- wants to replace medicare with coupons to pay for tax cuts. despite:
- spending his entire career in the public sector on taxpayer money
- no foreign policy experience
- known to have no interest in politicking. In fact, isn't he the one that decided to charge people for his town hall meetings to prevent protests?
I could see Ryan as the top of the ticket, but I don't see how he adds any value as a VP
to quote kos:
HoodWinked
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why do young people dislike ryan? people our age are gonna get completely screwed out of social security he wanted to reform it instead of kicking the can down the road
Rentahamster
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If it's Ryan, I doubt the ramifications will be as dire as some think.
Obama announced Biden as VP on a Saturday.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-08-23/...biden-john-mccain-barack-obama?_s=PM:POLITICS
Obama announced Biden as VP on a Saturday.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-08-23/...biden-john-mccain-barack-obama?_s=PM:POLITICS
adamsappel
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I can't recall if the Romney campaign floated Ryan's name with any serious effort before. Did he, and what was the reaction? They are going all-in on cutting government. What are Ryan's immigration views?
Thunder Monkey
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That has to be the best name and post combo I've ever seen.
He basically wants to destroy the few parts of the federal government that are actually really popular, plus he will just double the view that Romney is a robber baron who steals from the poor/middle class to give to the rich and corporations in tax cuts.
On the plus side, Republicans love him. Well, the old people who don't know about what he wants to do to Medicare anyway.
speculawyer
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In a rational world that would be true. But who knows these days. Florida voted in a Governor that was the CEO of a company that had to pay the largest criminal medicare fraud penalty EVER. MEDICARE FRAUD . . . in Florida. Yet they voted for him.
GregLombardi
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Don't underestimate news sources' ability to be wrong before an announcement is made.
gutter_trash
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LOL! he would take away your social security
Plus it gives time for them to vet the candidate for the next news cycle.
As an aside, really? Are they gonna run with this?
We are if an idiot like this gets his way.
as I mentioned before, this seems to be pretty common but the Obama pick is not really analogous as it was at the last minute before the convention. Romney's convention is over a week away
Anticitizen One
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I'm so disappointed in romney. He should have went with Nikki Haley.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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Ryan is a great choice. Didn't think Mitt would do it.
Officerrob
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He would cut college grants
metalslimer
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I honestly don't think Ryan cares about winning or losing in the fall. He seems like he has had his mind set on ascending the ranks of the Republican party and potentially launching his own presidential bid at one point. He really believes that him and his Tea Party brethren are transformational figures in politics.
Politics aside. Why is Julia buying all meat products and not one vegetable?
Mgoblue201
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Ryan should fit right in with Romney's recent shift toward the seemingly technocratic yet mathematically challenged. His recent proposals, in fact, have strong echoes of Ryan's budget plan: promise to balance the budget and grow the economy with vague and mathematically impossible policies yet deny that it's really just a tax cut for the rich. The question is what Ryan himself would get out of it. Even if Romney wins, which is looking more and more unlikely, he will lose his power as the primary right wing policy wonk in Congress.
Anticitizen One
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holy shit
No. She is hated by both Democrats and Republicans in this state. This would not be a good choice at all.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Gotta love the way Ryan tore down Obama here. You can see the fear in his eyes.
Gotta love the way Ryan tore down Obama here. You can see the fear in his eyes.
That's absolutely perfect.
You know, they talk about "red meat" all the time, but I never understood that it was literal.
Rentahamster
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What's the difference?
HoodWinked
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college subsidization has contributed to some of the inflating costs for college tho. If grants were exclusively for very low income but well performing students that would be fine but grants typically go to people that are already well off.
speculawyer
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He might be able to do that. Because the middle class' purchasing power will be lower thus forcing the price of groceries down. You'll pay less but the groceries will be less affordable.
metalslimer
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Either you are not in college or you completely misunderstood how "well off" you have to be to be able to afford college without assistance. Cutting grant money to all but the "very low income" will screw over many people because tuition isn't going down in an economic downturn.
What do you think all those guns are for?
Blackace
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SARAH PALIN OR NOBODY.
Glen Rice approved
Usually you don't dump good news on the weekend because nobody watches the news on weekends. Obama ran out of time before making his pick since it has to be done before the convention.
I, again, don't read anything into Romney doing this on a
I don't see the dems retaking the house, but it will definitely have a down ticket impact
speculawyer
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She is buying cabbage but she's going to need bypass surgery by the time she's done eating that food . . there are 25 meat products!
Well, if only she were in Mass so she could be protected by Romneycare.
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