Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Davis Ryan, 42, Chair of the House Budget Committee….
The Conservatives have won on this one….
My guess on this will have been wrong….
This pick plays to the ringhtleaning base that Romney is STILL having trouble with base…..
And the Democrats are happy also….
They will attack Ryan’s budget and further pull Romney away from the issue he wants to run on….
Jobs…
Stay tuned….
This is Mitt Romney’s first move to try get back in the 2012 Presidential race….
The Convention will be the next….
from Politico…
By announcing now, at a moment when he’s dropping in the polls and facing rising criticism, Romney has the opportunity to change the conversation about his campaign. And in tapping Ryan — chair of the House Budget Committee — the GOP nominee will immediately put a stop to conservative second-guessing about his campaign’s strategy. The young wonk, a Jack Kemp protege and fiscally conservative crusader, will galvanize many on the right who had been squawking the loudest about Romney.
But by tapping Ryan, Romney also is taking a significant risk. The congressman’s calling card is his “roadmap,” a budget reform proposal that would turn Medicare into a voucher program for future recipients. In the days leading up to Ryan’s pick, a number of GOP strategists working on 2012 campaigns said that putting Ryan on the ticket could give Democrats a weapon with which to attack down-ballot Republicans.
“I can’t remember the last election the GOP won when the issue dominating the discussion was entitlements,” said one veteran GOP strategist.
Meanwhile, as word of Ryan’s likely selection spread early Saturday morning, Democrats were all but giddy.
“Vice presidential nominees almost never matter,” said Bill Burton, who helps lead President Obama’s super PAC. “But if it’s the author of the most anti-middle class budget ever, this one does.”
photo…texastribune.com
Note….Ryan is NOT a lawyer …..for that manner neither was George Bush who earned a MBA from Harvard where Obama and Romney went to law school…Romney has a Joint Business and Law advanced degree…
from twitter….
The “incredibly boring white guy” VP made sense if the fundamentals favored Romney.
The Ryan pick is an admission that they don’t.
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As we’ve often thought, the man (Romney) has no vision, no imagination.
Not even as much as his fellow Harvard MBA George W. Bush, who lacked judgement and analytical ability outside a very narrow field, but was sometimes given to flashes of inspiration, sometimes good (African AIDS) and often deeply, even perversely, misplaced or misguided (Iraq).
Two white economic conservatives from Michigan and Wisconsin. I guess Indiana is now a lock for the red column.
Where’s the big tent? Two weeks from now, who but ideological conservatives will care much about Paul Ryan?
Well, actually, many people, but they’ll be seniors and working people scared (if Team Obama does its job) of what the Ryan Plan will do to the safety net.
I previously said Romney is a slight favorite to win FL. let me revise that. I now consider Obama the slight favorite. And if I were Obama, I would put some resources into AZ, although it is still doubtful he will be able to pry that state.
from Politicalwire…
Ryan Does Not Have to Drop House Race
The Washington Post reports Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) can appear on the ballot “as both a candidate for the House and for vice president. If the Romney-Ryan presidential ticket is not successful, but he wins his congressional race, Ryan can keep his seat. If the national ticket wins the White House and Ryan holds his House seat, a special election would be held to replace him in the House.”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/11/ryan_does_not_have_to_drop_house_race.html
Romney Falls for April Fools Joke
Mitt Romney’s staff made him victim of an elaborate April Fool’s prank, Reuters reports.
In on the joke were Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), both of whom have endorsed Romney.
“At a Milwaukee restaurant before a regularly scheduled campaign event, Romney was taken into a basement ballroom and his staff warned him in a holding room that the crowd was small… Ryan first went on stage and gave an entire introduction of Romney to the sound of applause piped in over the sound system. Romney and Johnson then walked out and took their assigned places. The room was completely empty.”
Romney said his first thought was, “This is going to look really bad on the evening news.”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/04/01/romney_falls_for_april_fools_joke.html
Ryan goes RIGHT at the Obama spending line….
and the NEGATIVE…
He’ll have to to counter the media going after his budget
I’m NOT surprised as how much he is shit canning how things are now…
He’s talking about Bain Capital as a positive….
The Olympics and Romney as Gov…..
“Romeny as
Achievement
Excellence
and Integrity….
Our rights come nature and GOD….
NOT Government
Equality Opportunity
Not Opportunity…
We are on a path trying rob America of its security…
We won’t duck….
We will reapply our founding principals…
We will honor your fellow citizens by having a choice…
What kind of people you want to be…
And the courage to tell you the TRUTH (????)
We will unite America
And get this done…..”
THat was blogged excerpts…..Kid Rock and now the family picture on stage
from twitter….
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
Last time a member of the House was on a winning presidential ticket? 1908 — also the last time the Cubs won the World Series.
Ooops!
Larry Sabato @LarrySabato
@fivethirtyeight Last time House member was on winning ticket was 1932 (John Nance Garner D-TX), not 1908.
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from twitter….
POLITICO @politico
Saturday slip: Romney introduces the ‘next president of the United States’: politi.co/NgF04G
more from twitter….
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
If Obama wins, most likely 2016 match-up is: Paul Ryan vs. Hillary Clinton. That would be pretty epic.
I agree with Nate. Who knows? Maybe ROmney was right when he said that Ryan would be the next president of the US?
Watch it James. I don’t think the Cubs are mathematically eliminated yet.
He, he, he….
Z….
The Mets are just about there…
I kept telling my son wait till AFTER the ALL-Star Games!
he, he, he….
you dissing Hillary?
who knows if she’ll run actually?