Paul Ryan would seem to be a choice to excite the base, which would be a stupid choice. Romney doesn't need to excite his base, they're already excited about ousting Obama. He needs to focus on the swing voters, and there are better runningmates than Ryan to do that.
Here you go. http://washingtonexaminer.com/breaking-mitt-romney-announcing-vp-pick-at-the-uss-wisconsin/article/2504626#.UCXhtaOtVzI
There is already quite a bit of negative commentary wherever it's being reported that Paul Ryan is likely the guy. Bad choice Mitt. It might not have mattered who Mitt picked (as far as commentary is concerned), but I think he's only going to energize Obama supporters... he'll probably run off some independents and the undecided as well.
I'm just afraid that no one is going to make a passionate and convincing case for free enterprise. I just don't feel any passion or conviction from Rommey when he talks up private business and the like. He needs someone to help make that case, I think.
Seems like a no brainer right? I mean... the past few years have been chalk full o' rhetoric concerning class and economics... it's practically what the left of center has been focusing on. We won't hear the end of it concerning Paul Ryan's budget and economic ideas... couple that with the rhetoric surrounding Romney's wealth, taxes, business practices, etc.
They are going to get brutally attacked on Ryan's proposed budget. I don't think they have thought this one through. It is almost as if they are trying to lose to Obama. The GOP should have been able to beat Obama by one of the biggest margins in history and it looks like they won't.
I was already hoping for the best while preparing for the worst, just by where things are at with the electoral college, but this news leaves me feeling a bit more pessimistic.
Ryan is a fisc hawk.... any fence sitting slugs with a taste...even a whiff of dependency will go with who they were likely going with anyway. other wishy washies may find an attractive balance between a liberal Romney and a budgetary taskmaster <---and that may also really energize righties with trepidations about Romney's liberalism. All and all, I think the polls will spike positive a little at the news.....and whether the numbers stay there or not will hinge on the success or failure of the left's, and their complicit media's propaganda, fear mongering strawmen, omissions and lies....which will be prolific. Numbers going into the convention versus after will set the tone.
Romney is playing right into the narrative that the Obama Admin. has been building up for months now. They gave Obama a floater right over the plate.
It's too bad the GOP didn't give Gary Johnson a chance. He's actually more hawkish than Ron Paul and has a great economic record as governor of New Mexico. But the neocons won't compromise on anything related to social policy so it's a no-go. Social policy is the creeping death of the GOP old guard and they don't even realize it. If they weren't so militant on social issues, they would have so much more populist appeal and support. Instead, they come off looking like puritanical rich folk. Not a good image to have in a national election.
I have been trying to get people on Johnson's bandwagon for awhile now. For some reason republicans can't stand an actual conservative. It is amazing to me. Half the time they don't even know who I am talking about and the other half say (*)(*)(*)(*) a libertarian. I'm like dude he is the most conservative contender out there. This is how I know the republicans don't really want a conservative.
If it is Ryan,that gives Obamas team all weekend to make "granny off the cliff" ads. Or another "Ryan killed my wife" or "granny died from Ryan taking away her medicare"ad."Granny eats dogfood because of Paul Ryan) Ryan wants old people and children to die. I know they will cook up something stupid.I already know the way they play the game.
I wasn't a fan of Ron Paul for a variety of reasons but Gary Johnson's conservatism is much more reasonable and practical then Paul's. And he's not an isolationist. I somewhat like his positions.
republicans do not believe in the constitution, they think it's just a piece of paper then again, it's better then a Palin VP "The Palin Principle – Bible trumps Constitution" http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/201...nt-to-base-law-on-bible-and-ten-commandments/ "Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant — they’re quite clear — that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the ten commandments." - Palin
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I think either Ryan or Marco Rubio would be a great choice. What is the Republican plan if not Ryan's? Who better to try and sell it to the people? Rubio is a good choice as it may get him some Hispanic votes and carry a very important state for the election.
I thought the goal was NOBAMA 2012? Picking Ryan hurts that cause. I was considering Romney but a lot was going to depend on his VP choice. Heres one vote hes losing if this is true, which it looks like it is.
Tell me what is the Republican platform if not Ryan's. At least he has three months to really explain how it will work, which it seems the Republicans haven't been able to do yet.
