Please direct your dad to some videos of Ryan going up against Obama. I know Obama's not Biden, but your dad should at least get that he's not the boy genius of the right wingers (well actually I guess he is, which is utterly depressing...) that everyone makes him out to be.
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Please direct your dad to some videos of Ryan going up against Obama. I know Obama's not Biden, but your dad should at least get that he's not the boy genius of the right wingers (well actually I guess he is, which is utterly depressing...) that everyone makes him out to be.
What? No. That's not my dad. Mine hates republicans because they're not conservative enough. He likes people like Palin and Santorum. He thinks Obamas an idiot and people only voted for him because they felt obligated to because he's black.
ErasureAcer
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It's always been one VP debate. Your dad is out of touch with what's going on, obviously.
He was talking about some video where he says Ryan eviscerated Obama do badly CNN had to pull the plug. No idea what video that is...
Fox, Drudge and right wing talk radio!
The hell? The only thing that pops to mind is this, and Obama doesn't even get a chance to respond:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-ryan-president-obama/
I'll have to check when I'm home. All I caught was something about his response being "that's not true mr president look at page 36" ... He was talking to my uncle at the time
Byakuya769
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Hahaha.
Black Republican
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hmm, from what i see not many senate gop candidates have rallied around Paul Ryan, statements of glowing praise cant be found.
cartoon_soldier
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Obama's twitter account:
I guess this won't help bridge the gender gap.
Yea, the plan is toxic. That is the reason. In fact the MT GOP candidate has ads opposing the Ryan Plan on air.
I guess this won't help bridge the gender gap.
Yea, the plan is toxic. That is the reason. In fact the MT GOP candidate has ads opposing the Ryan Plan on air.
Aaron Strife
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PoliGAF 2012 |OT3| Rule #1 of Romney's Campaign: Don't Talk About Romney's Campaign
Luckily there's plenty for Democrats to run on in Nevada, Florida, Missouri, North Dakota, and Arizona. All of the GOP candidates in those races were representatives who voted for it, and of course Heller in NV voted for it in the Senate too.
Yeah, Montana's about the one state where it won't make a difference, since Rehberg voted against it.cartoon_soldier said:
Luckily there's plenty for Democrats to run on in Nevada, Florida, Missouri, North Dakota, and Arizona. All of the GOP candidates in those races were representatives who voted for it, and of course Heller in NV voted for it in the Senate too.
War is peace
PhoenixDark
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PoliGAF 2012 |OT3| First Rule of Romneyland: Don't talk about Romneyland
Haven't posted in awhile because I started a new job, but I couldn't imagine how Romney's campaign could do any worse after the last few weeks have gone and now they pick Ryan. Genuinely stupid people are the only ones allowed to work Romney's campaign, apparently.
Speaking of the media, I concur with Krugman. Their obeisance for Ryan's putative intellect is annoying. His proposed budgets are derelict. Not only because his policies are ruinous, but they're methodologically flawed.
Not to dismiss the media's negligence, but the Democrats were fated to lose the public on HCR. It was a complex, multi-stage policy. And those are typically lost on the public. Nonetheless, I think the cost was justified. Healthcare is a monumental problem. And the PPACA is-hopefully-a first step towards UHC.
Black Republican
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Romney on having a VP: Its now two on two instead of two on one Theyve go someone else to pick on too. Ha Ha Ha.
all according to plan!
Romney on having a VP: Its now two on two instead of two on one Theyve go someone else to pick on too. Ha Ha Ha.
all according to plan!
I heard somewhere that his advisers were constantly begging him to pick Portman, but Romney became set on Ryan.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
LOL
Wow. Can't wait to see this in commercial form, because you know it's coming.
As for the Ryan pick, I absolutely can't believe Romney picked him.
Who, outside of the absolute far-right and Tea Party, does this actually motivate? Does this draw in ANY independent voters? He's one of the most unlikable people in Washington! What in the world was Romney thinking?
Officerrob
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The Ryan pick has convinced me to volunteer here in Virginia. I'll be contacting a campaign office Monday, good job Mitt Romney!!
RustyNails
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Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Also, how anybody could run on the platform of "eliminate capital gains taxes" and think they've got a shot at winning is beyond me.
Most likely, the only people who that benefits are already voting for you.
Most likely, the only people who that benefits are already voting for you.
I volunteered in 2008, but it doesn't look like they've even opened any offices in my state this time around (West Virginia). I don't blame them since there's even less of a chance of him winning WV this time around as there was in 2008.
I'm not be able to drive to Ohio or Virginia to volunteer, so I guess my money is going to have to do.
I'm not be able to drive to Ohio or Virginia to volunteer, so I guess my money is going to have to do.
Raising taxes on job creators?
For shame, Paul Ryan, for shame.
SouthernDragon
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Well, if he's using himself as a measuring stick... well, yeah.
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I'd like to know who he considers far right.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I'm pretty sure PoliGAF could run a better campaign than either party.
CharlieDigital
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Jon Huntsman is the only reasonable, intelligent, service-oriented, centrist "Republican" in the whole field.
It's sad that his party has no place for him.
It's sad that his party has no place for him.
Aaron Strife
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No right is too far.
Huntsman is on record supporting the Ryan Plan. He comes off as sane because he doesn't hate gays and wants to take troops out of foreign countries, but his economic ideas are radically right wing.
CharlieDigital
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TBH, I'm open to experimentation with the economic aspects of our society, but I'm not willing to compromise on the social aspects because we're talking about people and civil rights here.
I'm not willing to dump my Huntsman man-love because of his support for the Ryan plan which may or may not have been largely driven by election year politics.
StopMakingSense
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I just cant get over how much off their schedule they must be in the Romney Camp. Leaking it on late Friday night, after spending a day spinning their MITT VP APP like a week ago. Seriously incomprehensible and desperate.
They're not even fiscally conservative anymore. If they got their way, they'd spend way more than the Democrats could even dream of.
If you want to be a fiscal conservative but also account for human rights and decency, there's essentially nothing for you. You either have the Dems with the social responsibility but are like herding cats if you want anything done, and the Republicans that are supposed to be the fiscal conservative/small government party but have added more debt and more spending than anyway else, march in lockstep, expanded government and have gone so far fundie that even my religious-as-hell relatives have re-registered as nonpartisan.
And lord help you if you're in a state that neither party gives a shit about.
I doubt Huntsman actually buys into the Ryan plan, its more likely he felt that was a way to endear himself to the base. He did not realize Romney would go full on cocksuck mode to the right
The only sense I can make of it is so they get nonstop coverage on Sunday morning talk show and on Sunday morning front pages.
Krugman has been on point about Ryan from the beginning. Our media is so corrupted to have fallen for such a transparent hack.
To say nothing of Mitt Romney.
maximum360
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cartoon_soldier
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I've been volunteering since April. This is quite hostile territory (Phoenix, AZ), but there's a lot more support than I expected when I started.
I can't wait to hear the response to the Ryan pick from the decidedly older population here.
That would have probably been a good idea if Obama's campaign had not had such a workup on Ryan ready to go. With Palin in 2008 they got a few weeks before she monumentally messed up.
With Ryan it was minutes and Obama was spamming Facebook, Twitter, and the web with their first salvo of "Ryan is worse then Bush" talk.
I expect Obama to control the narrative by weeks end and continue Romney's inability to make anything but bad press
Seriously, their plan was to tie Romney to Ryan in the first place! I swear to god Romney's campaign is run by Obama and Biden in fake cheesy mustaches.
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