Friday, August 10, 2012
Please, Please, Please Pick Paul Ryan
There's a buzz currently that Paul Ryan is seriously being considered to be Mitt's running mate. Nothing would make me happier...this is a guy who won't be vague about the GOP's plan to decimate the social safety net.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/08/paul-ryan-is-a-great-choice.html
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Paul Ryan is the best choice for Mitt Romeny. No one defends the Ryan budget like Ryan himself, so why not let him do it in person. Mitt surely sucks at it. Putting Ryan on the ticket would center the focus of the Romney campaign on the nation’s unsustainable fiscal path – to be sure, a concern of voters and an issue Obama loses big on.
If I were Mitt, Ryan would be my choice, and not boring ass Palenty.
Christie is out, out, and never was in, no matter how much Mitt would love him. Christie is going to give the key note at the Republican convention, blow everyone away, and after Mitt loses in 2012, will be elected by a landslide in 2016 as President. That folks is my prediction. Christie will dominate the party after limp dick Mitt falls off the radar next year, and Republicans will want some fat, Jersey fire and brimstone after 8 long years of Romney monotone. And best of all, the Democrats have no challenger to face such a formitable candidate. Who ever the Dem sacrificial lamb is in 2016, I feel sorry for him/her. Christie's big ass will eat them alive. The best hopes Dems have for 2016 is Chris Christie having a heart attack, which given his size is a possibility. It's frankly their only hope.
But Obama will win in 2012, make no mistake. And his second term will be so bad, you Dems will likely vote for Christie in 2016. That's my other prediction.
The Dems won't run a sacrificial lamb in 2016, they'll run Hillary. And she will roll right over the Republican.
Hillary will be toooooo ooooold.
Well, Jim... looks like you got your wish, according to MSNBC.com news.
We have to be careful what we wish for. Ryan is one of the worst of the worst. He has the politics of Sarah Palin, but he is intelligent.
I was hoping Romney would pick a milquetoast like Tim Pawlenty or Bob McConnell but instead he played it smart and picked someone who would energize the "tea party" and get more of them on board with his campaign. The key word here is "energize". It might not give Mitt much of a bump in the polls but it might get more disgruntled right-wingers to the polls. Or not, who knows...
I think Ryan is pretty awful but he was the correct choice for Romney to make. I am sure Ryan will do a nice job defending his budget, but I don't think it will help Romney enough for him to beat Obama. Having Ryan out on the campaign trail talking about his budget will generate some great campaign ads for the president...
I think it was a great pick for our side. The Republicans desperately need to hold on to the senior citizen vote and nobody in the country threatens that group currently more than Paul Ryan.
This definitely shows Mitt is getting desperate.
He is starting to trail in more polls, so yes he probably is getting desperate... but there are still three months to go. Ryan will help focus things on the economy, but possibly not in the way the GOP wants. If the Dems can keep enough focus on Bain and Romney's taxes for a while, their lead might be too much for Romney to overcome.
he played it smart and picked someone who would energize the "tea party"
Paul Ryan voted for both bail outs and supported the GM/UAW union give-away. He isn't as staunch a conservative as you make him out to be. Just because he's trying to save the quagmire that is social security (as if that were possible lol) doesn't make him Rush Limbagh. And if you think America's seniors are too stupid to grasp said quagmire is fucked, you must at least appreciate the we young folks get that we'll pay into that mess all our lives and get jack and shit. That's a plus. But it still doesn't make Romney a good candidate and it still won't make Mitt win. In fact, they should have just run Ryan, and let Mitt be VP. Perhaps then I'd have considered voting Republican.
You'll have to excuse me, I meant to type medicade my last post, but instead social security came out. Chalk that one up to me being up past my bed time.
For the record though, while I think Ryan is as good a pick as any, Rubio would have been more ideal as he would have jazzed up the tea party just as much, but could have ensured a Florida win. Ohio's Portman wouldn't have had the Tea street cred, but would have guaranteed Ohio. Ryan, being from Wisconsin, will now guarantee that state most likely, but that isn't that many electoral votes. I'd rather have had Rubio and a Florida in the bag were it me. Not to mention what Rubio could do for the Hispanic vote.
And actually I think the Ryan pick guarantees Obama will win Florida. Lots of nervous old people down there.
Obama has been trending ahead in Wisconsin, and I'd wager there as many voters in Wisconsin who dislike Ryan there as there are who like him. I'm not sure a VP choice guarantees the state for the party the choice hails from, unless he or she hails from a "safe state" (like Palin is from Alaska, which is a safe state for the Republicans).
Traditionally a VP will deliver that state, and it's worked out that way almost every time I can think of... except for Al Gore maybe, who couldn't deliver Tennessee.
As for old people, I think you'll be surprised how bad you lose that sector. Ryan will make the case he isn't killing medicare, he's saving part of it, and the promises made for the last 30 years were unrealistic. That strait talk worked well for Chris Christie in uber liberal New Jersey and I think they will play well for Ryan nation wide which is much less liberal. Old people aren't stupid, they understand the system is unsound, and I think will be happy to have a guy tell them the truth. It works to advance the agenda, and paints Obama as an old school lying liar of a politician just pandering. Its a good strategy. If you were smart and wanted to attack Ryan, the President would introduce counter reform of medicare, and mention how big a fan Ryan was of corporate bail outs.
A good example of how effective Ryan can be.
This guy ain't no Sarah Palin.
Also, earlier I put Wisconsin in the Obama block, but now I've changed my mind. Romney will win Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin for swing states. He will loose Pennsylvania, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada. Virginia is up in the air, but if I had to pick today, I'd put it in the Obama camp because of all the government employees there who have bled out of the DC area.
I still think Wisconsin will go for Obama. The area Ryan represents doesn't have any of the larger cities in it.
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