What do you think of Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate?

I cannot support the ticket-no way no how.

Obamas worst fear, a VP candidate that actually understands math.

@ Clark

You are the typical right wing cliche. The Democratic plan would be to spend until growth returns and then growth gets rid of debt. This has worked at least twice in the last century: FDR and Reagan. But Paul Ryan’s plan has never worked. Ever. Contracting the money supply causes recessions, it doesn’t turn them around.

Rich

At least Ryan has a plan. the dumnocrats have not passed a budget in 3 years. Their only solution is to increase taxes, penalize success and reward fallure. Growth, right, sure has worked well for obama so far.

Obama has never understood the math.

Allison:

Typical radical leftist democrat. Confiscate all income and wealth and when new spending has consumed this confiscated private property, what next?

If you enjoy 10% unemployment and minimal GDP growth than obama is your man.

He is a leaderless figurehead, Why didn’t he support his own deficit commission, Simpson-Bowles? I assume Pelosi provided strict orders to your man obama, not to support any spending cuts just tax increases.

The choice is clear now. Do we want to continue chasing Europe over the financial?

I can’t wait for him to debate Bidon. That will be priceless.

Seeing that the Obama campaign last week told us Romney and Bain killed a guy, I can’t wait to see the lies they come up with for Ryan.

Watch the hate begin.

Ryan speaks very well and he seems intelligent. He also seems to be an extremist bent on defunding the Federal government, I think, to the detriment of the people.

I’m hoping Ryan’s candidacy motivates Democrats and centrists to come out and vote for the President.

OK, so the GOP has a decent VP choice. Too bad Romney is leading ticket. Maybe Ryan will help Mitt figure out what he really believes in. It will be an interesting next 3 months.

Mr Ryan is a different political animal—more substantive and less vitriolic—but coming from the House he is associated with a specific form of conservatism that is all about insurgency, purity and Washington dysfunction. Remember, it was Mr Ryan’s polarizing budget plan that sacked an earlier (grand-bargain) bipartisan deal.

Paul Ryan is a perfect pick for Mr. Romney. We now have a right wing ideologue backing the former “liberal” Governor, cleansing him of his past ideological mistakes. It completes Romney’s charge to the right and makes the coming contest clear. Republicans continue to paint President Obama as a big spender and weak economic leader, forgetting that our current low tax rate and stalled economy were problems that he inheritied, and that they have spent the last two years maintaining. They rant against “obamacare” but propose no alternative beyond returning to the old “free market” solution that left 45 million without any health care coverage at all save emergency rooms.

Clearly, Republican leadership including Ryan and Romney have seen it as more important to oust Obama than save the Nation from its economic downturn. Remember, Ryan voted in favor of much of the spending that the administrations of Bush and Obama advised. If voters can see through the smoke and mirrors they will note, and vote accordingly.

Awesome choice. Like sarah palin did, ryan will push any independents who were sitting on the fence to re-elect Obama. Especially those with an education about the economy, budget, and what’s going on in Europe that doesn’t come from fox news and republican rhetoric.

It means nothing other than it gives Dems and GOPers one more thing to taunt each other and retort over. We get all up in arms over VP choices but ultimately they don’t matter. We were happy to allow Cheney to hang one heart-beat away from the presidency. Lots of voters looked past substance and seemed fine w Palin on the ticket. They were all energized by her, when behind the scenes even McCain’s people didn’t want her on board. Apart from his gaffes, I don’t know much of Biden other than he isn’t in the media too often. It’s a super slim % of people that vote for or against a VP candidate.

What continues to amaze me is the number of people who practice willful ignorance, trumpeting talking points put out by candidates and amplified by their chosen media instead of fact-checking with unbiased sources and using common sense. Case in point is the guy on here questioning Obama’s law degree: really — you can’t find any info on his career? It sounds great in a forum, but you missed a lot of public info already out there. When will we move past a system that has bought into repeating mistruths often enough that they become the new truth?

I’m tired of seeing people labled “typical liberal” or “typical conservative” like those assumptions can even be made from a post less than 200 words long.

The question here really is how much of an impact do voters think Ryan will make on Romney’s leadership. And I think as far as the economy is concerned, the selection of Ryan more clearly defines the Romney campaign. Perhaps this next election will be a moratorium on the Ryan plan.

Should satisfy the right-wing conservatives and tea partiers. Just another selfish-minded person owned by the right-wing machine and its corporate contributers. His agenda, as stated many times, will not help or benefit the middle-class working people, nor those on the botton rung of our so out of whack economic ladder.

The Cosmic snapshot of the Earth gets taken in December. We’ve been chasing red herrings down a blind alley and the elephant in the living room has been feeling neglected.

What do I think of Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate?

Can he prove the War on Drugs has failed? That the Prohibition of Cannabis/hemp was one of the most insidious inside jobs done to the American people and Global community in the last one hundred years? Maybe miracles will happen in that arena. Maybe young Paul Ryan will allow for the discussion. Obama could do something positive today.

Romney’s choice was at least a smart one… I wonder who made it for him.

I have no faith in the Republicrat-Demopublican shell game. Only the heartmind of each of us will prevail.

From a political perspective, I believe that Rob Portman from Ohio would have been a wiser choice. The selection of Paul Ryan has to be seen as a bit of a desperate move in the same sense that selecting Sarah Palin four years ago was. I am sure that the Romney campaign advisors are not ignorant and they know the risks that they are taking in selecting a man with a bit of an extreme agenda. I thing President Obama and his advisors have to be breathing a little easier today than they were last week.

As far as I am concerned it does not matter. I would not vote for Mitt if he had Jesus Christ as his VP choice.

I am a 51 year old educatedm middle class working woman (been working since I was 14) who will be among the first guinea pigs in the Medicare system experiment that is Ryan’s brainchild. Good bye 401k, it will all go for healthcare if and when I get sick, as all people eventually do. I’ll pay my own way for a few months and then my assets will be eaten up and I will be thrown out onto the streets because the US won’t be subsidizing the senior population anymore in any way. Good luck kids………

Clearly a choice to pander to the tea-party faction, offering a little more sizzle than T-Paw (OK – the bar is pretty low). This should remove any and all doubt as to which direction Mr. Romney would like to take the economic policy, and what he thinks of the working class. Unless you have more money than brains, this slate should concern you. The good news is this should energize voters on both sides, and will likely push most of the fence sitters to the left.

Regarding the thoughtful and insightful comments about President Obama: Really? Gosh! Thanks for setting me straight!

Paul Ryan led the charge to bring the country near default last summer leading to the down grade of the United States’ credit rating, the man should be fired not promoted.

Good choice, the guy has quite a few ideas which is more than I can say about Obama. The only problem is the intelligence of the American people…if they fall for the SS and Medicare scare tactics then Romney will not be elected. If the American people have ability to think logically to realize the only way to save the social programs (and not kill the economy) is to cut back the benefits for the future generations. Allow market forces to drop prices and give people more choices. Sure the Democrats will attack based on their ideology that nothing but the military can be cut…here’s to hoping the American people are smart enough to see past the attacks and hate.

When Lyndon Baines Johnson was trying to steal enough money from middle class Americans to start his Great Society, he assured us citizens that the government would always have the “abundance and the ability to free every man from hopeless want.”

And we citizens nodded our collective head and said, “Well, that’s reasonable. We are a very wealthy country. We can do that.”

We thought he meant every man could be free of want of such things as…..food……water…..shelter from the storm……you know, the essentials of life.

Turns out he meant (well, the governments that came after him, mostly) that every man, and woman, and child, would be free of every kind of want that could possibly be imagined.

Want a 60 inch LED LCD? No problem. The FedGov will buy you one. No…No…No….Don’t even think of paying us back. We won’t here of it. It’s yours. Free and clear. You don’t owe us a dime.

Want a car? Sure, we got a program for that, too. A house in the ‘burbs? Here ya go…enjoy. A swimming pool? How could any American live without a swimming pool? We’ll start digging the hole this afternoon. Clothes for all your kids? The newest backpacks? Right this way, my dear. We got it all, just for you.

24 years later, Jimmy Carter said in his inaugural address, “We have learned that more is not necessarily better, that even our great nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems. We cannot afford to do everything.”

Unfortunately, we did not heed this nugget of wisdom by the peanut man, and government spending sped on, reaching new heights under every president since, to the point now, with Obama as our top employee, who wants us to spend 3.6 Trillion dollars this year.

And Paul Ryan wants us to spend…..listen up, now…….3.53 Trillion dollars this year. Really, Paul…….3.53 T? Yup, that’s what Paul says…..3.53…..Paul going to save each of us two hundred bucks. Thanks, Paul. I am confident that if you were drowning in the ocean, Paul would save you by dipping a gallon of water out of that ocean. What a guy.

Perhaps Ryan should be Obama’s running mate. They share a love of spending the middle class’s wealth. Ryan, tho, probably understands it. Which is ten times worse than doing it out of ignorance.

Wow, what a horrible choice! All those like me, who have been pretty unimpressed with Obama, will now sign up for phone duty and lawn signs and start writing checks. The specter of Ryan getting closer to the economic decision-making of our fragile USofA is so horrifying that we must join the fight for the soul of this nation. I was worried he’d pick Palenty, who doesn’t excite anyone or worse, Condi Rice, who would’ve grabbed independent and moderate women and people of color, but, like McCain, he chooses someone really scary and devisive. There’s no way he can win now; America is sick to death of politicians who work to divide this nation.

The rest of the world is watching our seeming attempt to bring back the 50’s, and now we have these 2 rich and pampered white- men- with- good- hair to usher in that retrospective. Luckily there are enough intelligent people who, like the rest of the planet, see the folly of that desire (It’s impossible to go back in time, folks!). Gird your loins, fellow moderates, and arm yourself for the good fight–the country you save(or lose) is your own!

Word

To those libs who are dancing round and round over the Paul Ryan non-event, telling themselves that happy days are here again, it’s going to be like 2008 all over again, etc……..

A little history lesson is in order.

In 2008, Obama had the easiest path to victory any candidate has had since FDR. Facts:

1) The economy was tumbling at an enormous rate, nothing like it had been seen since the Great Depression, and the Republicans were being completely (100%) blamed for it.

2) People were afraid….and angry. TARP made them mad. Fear of losing their income, fear of the unknown, fear that the future held nothing good, only bad. And the media told them Dubya was to blame. And, of course, the Republicans.

3) People were seeking change. Obama promised change. People were desperate, but change looked better than the present.

4) Some were downright giddy at the opportunity to vote for the first black president.

5) The Republicans ran the worst candidate since Bob Dole.

6) McCain picked a running mate the media could bash endlessly.

A 3-legged dog could have won that election for the Democrats……easily.

But, what actually happened?

Obama won, but just barely.

365 to 173 electoral votes.

FDR won 472 to 59.

Also, FDR won 42 states to Hoover’s 6 states.

Obama? 28 states, to McCain’s 22 states.

A pitiful showing for Obama.

With the conditions that existed at the time of the election, Obama should have been real close to FDR’s numbers. But he was not. Not even in the same ballpark. Not on the same planet.

It should have been a blowout. The fact that it was not is nothing short of pathetic.

Remember….

Even with all that Obama had in his favor (none of which is still viable), if just 2.91% of the voters….less than 3%…..had voted the other way, Obama would not have been elected.

Less than 3%…….think about that for a bit.

Har

Lets see…….

Who creates lots of jobs?

Oh, yeah…..

Community organizers……..

No, wait…..that should be private businesses……

Community organizer is just a polite way of saying…….

On the dole……..

Har

I think Ryan’s an excellent choice. With Romney/Ryan we will no longer have any need for collective bargaining/union representation as denly stop off shoring jobs and see to it all employees get a fair share of the pie. Trickle down ecomomics will make all of us wealthy and independant. And I have a bridge to sell to anyone who buys that!

Ryan’s budget cutting ideas bear some merit but where he is wrong is thinking cutting revenue-giving more of the pie to the wealthier will result in prosperity to all. Think about it. If you have a budget problem just cut your income and reduce your spending. It is insane to believe just cutting spending will solve any problem. yes we do need to cut but we can’t ignore revenue/income and expect a good outcome!