all are welcome to post, this isn't for just Republicans or cons or anything. I ask this because they've consistently been doing well in straw polls, and in a recent straw poll Paul was first and Ryan was second. They got 16 and 15, respectively, and the only other person to get double digits was Rick Perry at 11.
I read this as a question about supporting Paul Ryan the first few times. Would I support them? No. Atlas Shrugged belongs on the shelf of a 20-year-old college freshman, not the Vice President's.
I do not care for either of those men. Paul is too extreme and I've never understood what was so special about Ryan. He's just another politician figuring out ways to funnel more money to the rich while pretending he cares about the middle class.
Whoever is nominated for the Republican ticket, I will support. This would be a good one, not sure it would be my first choice.
I do like Rand Paul. I need to study him some more though. Paul Ryan I cannot support. I can't tolerate a politician who would support a budget that rewards illegal immigrants while cutting Veteran's benefits. That is a compromise that makes him unpalatable is a potential President or Vice President.
I personally think that wouldn't be a well-balanced ticket. Both men have things to recommend them. But I feel they don't really form a team in which one complements the other in any meaningful way.
You just described every possible candidate ever. None of them actually have any decent policies, nor will they ever. That's not why they get into the politician game. Anyone who does get into it for that reason is quickly filtered out before they ever reach the national level. This is how it will always be. Power governs all things, and the monopoly of legal force is the most powerful prize of all.
Stand with Rand, support the constitution! Have you heard about the libertarian conspiracy? They want to take over the government and then leave you alone.
Ryan has claimed that he grew up and is no longer the notorious randwanker he once was: So, he may be guilty of egregiously bad taste in literary matters if he actually fancied such turgid pulp fiction, but he seems to be claiming he has graduated to reality. His suitability on the GOP ticket may be impaired by his inability to carry his hometown, let alone his state in 2012 but, when he renounced the superficial siren who vamped so many callow youngsters, and proclaimed, “Don’t give me Ayn Rand,” but rather "give me Thomas Aquinas,” he was probably ignorant of Aquinas's declaring "the quickening" as the significant stage of human gestation and not impregnation as current extremists would have it. Then, there is Pope Francis's emphasis on the gospel message for capitalism - an ethos that Ryan, as a purported Catholic, does not espouse. Rand Paul has disposed of Carnival Cruz, and is creeping to the centre along with Paul. I expect it will be one or the other on the ticket, but not both. Huckabee would be more fun. ,
Keep your Palin/Trump obsession private, please. Some may be quaffing beverages at their keyboards. - and let us not forget that Paul and Ryan both have the stink of an 18% approval/73% disapproval Congressional Republican rating upon them. Yet another reason the GOP should look to governors or their surfeit of media entertainers. .
They all would lose in a landslide to Hillary according to the polls. Not that I like Hillary. I don't. But she would be better than anybody the repubs have put forward so far.
I vote liberal and democrat usually but as a democrat I can say I at least respect Rand Paul, even if I disagree with most of his policies. Hell I even like GWB, just not his policies. I wouldn't MIND having him in the white house but don't think the Republicans or another corporate tool needs to be in the white house.
I tend to agree with you here, but my opinion stays the same. Whoever gets nominated, I will support. How about a Huckabee/Kasich ticket. There you have two governors!
I could, although I'm not a big fan of Paul Ryan. Also, as a strategist I would be concerned that the ticket is the RUNNING MATE's name (i.e. Paul/Ryan = Paul Ryan)
The DNC would have to pick some horrific--like Hillary--before I would even consider voting for Rand Paul.
That is what they said in 2008 too. They will be wrong again. Hillary won't get the nomination, and the swift boating of her by her own opponents in the primaries will be nothing but free help to the GOP even if she were to eek out the nomination.
You know I was actually just talking to some one last night about Biden. He'd probably be a better general election candidate and a better president.
Possibly, but who know the primary voters don't like to go for electable, so someone like Cruz will probably be nominated
Eh, I doubt it. Romney was actually very electable, so I'd even dispute that to an extent. Cruz types often get primary attention, but not the nomination.
