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Mitt Romney announces Paul Ryan as running mate
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Doubtful. Palin's flaw was that she was an idiot and proud of not being smart. Ryan is smarter and can make any of his ideas someone could potentially view as idiotic or crazy as palatable. He walks a fine line that even makes it hard for his home state to have an overwhelming positive or negative view of him. Palin was a better known quantity by her own state and their negative outlook eventually mirrored the country's outlook on her.
Ryan being so hard to pin down makes him a good partner for Quantum Romney.
Again he has no choice. Blame it on Super-PACs or the minority Tea Party or just collective insanity, but the GOP is convinced that there is enough small government fervor to carry this ticket into the White House.
Maybe they're trying to shore up Romney's right with Ryan so that he can move back to the left in these last months before the election.
If he starts talking positively of Immigration reform then I'll know I'm right.
Ryan almost destroyed the Republican party with his budget whether the GOP knows it or not. He can talk intelligently about his insanity, but nobody outside of the conservative right will be fooled.
He isn't doubling down. Don't forget Republicans were doing everything in their power during the primaries to vote for anyone else but Romney. To be so thoroughly despised means there is the risk of apathy setting in. Ryan thoroughly counters most threats of apathy harming Republican voter turnout.
Hopefully we are both right. But I have my doubts for poor young voters.
I hope the GOP is called out on this daily because I think most Americans simply want a government that works and spends within its means not the wholesale elimination of social programs. With the Ryan pick this should be made easier to focus on this nonsense.
They don't seem that happy to be there.
Subliminal
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The black people have SOOO been paid to stand there and hold up that flag
Around here the hatred for Obama is so strong the only thing that would stop them from voting is if they pass out from holding their nose while casting their vote for a slick flip flopping east cost Mormon.
Subliminal
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He's just unbearably awkward, Like worse than John McCain.
Depends on which set of voters. Ryan brings a lot of baggage to turn off the 50+ crowd and evangelicals, and only excites Teahadis who are plugged into the echo chamber anyway.
I'm not usually one to say this, but I really can't wait for the Tea Party Tears when their golden boy Ryan doesn't get in the White House and is summarily ejected from the Republican party in the next election.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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Damn. I missed it. What was it?
We've seen how time and time again Republican voters have voted against their own interest. I think Ryan will cost Romney some independent senior votes but within the party? All Ryan has to do is flash a smile and talk about his perfect family and Republican senior citizens will gladly vote against their own interests or more specifically the interests of future senior citizens.
He's a Congressman, so it's win or go home until 2014 (whether in the next Congressional cycle without incumbent advantages, or in the first campaigning for 2016). If I was slightly more cynical, I'd say that he's a compromise choice between the Tea Party who wants him in higher office, and the Republican Congressional establishment who want him somewhere, anywhere else.
Mgoblue201
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What I mean is that the Republican party has been so hollowed out intellectually that the only two types of viable candidates left are the hardcore crazies such as Bachmann or an unpalatable stiff like Romney, who is basically the Republican's idea of what a moderate looks like. It's useful to remember, now that he's proposing tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the middle class, that the main quality that allowed him to emerge from the primary was supposed to be his electability. This kind of tone-deaf dissonance has basically come to define the modern Republican party. They may pivot farther to the right if Romney loses, but only because they have once again drawn the wrong conclusions from their failures.
Well we knwo what ad the Obama campaign will go with now lol.
The Chosen One
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The black couple is absolutely hilarious. :lol
I don't think the black woman has clapped once and she's been on the phone half the time. And the other minority woman was wiping her face, blowing her nose, who knows what else.
It's so obvious they're plants it's embarrassing, haha.
I don't think the black woman has clapped once and she's been on the phone half the time. And the other minority woman was wiping her face, blowing her nose, who knows what else.
It's so obvious they're plants it's embarrassing, haha.
He's still going to run for his House seat at the same time.
They're protecting it... in the same way that Bush "protected" Iraq.
Scott32020
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Next president
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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I heard that too.
lol I double checked with the dvr and he does indeed say president and not vice president.
and he jumps back up to correct himself heh
Officerrob
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The next president of the United States? LOL
GitarooMan
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lol, next president of the united states.
Lol, it keeps happening! Obama did the same thing introducing Biden in 2008. The candidates are too nervous.
BertramCooper
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Senate Bill 5 aside, Kasich hasn't been awful. In fact, he's been good enough that he's actually helping Obama more than Romney.
He's still a massive jackhole, though, and will probably lose re-election in 2014.
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