Late Friday, NBC News and the Huffington Post reported that Mitt Romney had chosen Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his vice presidential nominee. The two will hold a joint campaign appearance in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday morning aboard the USS Wisconsin, before hitting the trail together in advance of the GOP convention in Tampa in late August. The appeal for Romney is obvious: Ryan is telegenic (he's 42) with an impeccable reputation among conservatives as not just a policy wonk but a once-in-a-generation visionary. (For what it's worth, he also catches catfish with his hands.) As New York's Jonathan Chait explained in a profile of Ryan in April, Ryan, more so than Romney himself, has become the face of the Republican party over the last two years. But that's also what makes Ryan's choice such a wild card for the GOP and a potential gift for President Obama and downballot Democrats. His signature legislative accomplishment, an eponymous budget proposal that was passed by the House but died in the Senate, would gut the social safety net and then some. Over the next three months, expect to hear a lot of variations on this analysis, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: continue with article-- http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/its-almost-official-paul-ryan-be-romneys-running-mate
Excellent choice,especially in consideration Mitt could have chosen a nigger bitch or a Spic from Cuba.I think & hope this shows that Romney is more right wing than just right moderate,but we'll see.
Just another chickenhawk neo con who wants to keep sending money and blood as a sacrifice to the joo.
My comment at SI and the Phora ('In like a Ryan, Out like a Rahm'): What can you say? It looks like Romney/Ryan 2012 vs. Obama/Biden.That's right. Both major tickets sport candidates whose names consist entirely of nasals, liquids, and vowels (on the Republican side), with an additional immigrant quota of one voiced stop each for the Democrats. No siblants, no aspirates, not one voiceless consonant. No *final* arrrs, only Jap style initials. Hell, with that inventory of phonemes you can't even say 'Time for a change.' That has a voiceless stop (for starters), an affricative spirant, for fuck's sake, and two weird consonants straight from the Anglo-Saxon horror show (one voiced, one not).Romney/Ryan.... sounds tough on China.Are we tending, subconsciously, towards names that third worlders and Polynesians can pronounce? That are easy to pronounce by Hamites and Semites?Clearly, Romney is desperate to keep the Tea Party voat in line for his Mormon Corporateness. Ryan won't get anywhere near the reins of power, and he's on the ticket to deceive Tea Party fools. The fact that herding the Tea Party was the priority over winning a border state or Florida with a 'favourite son' tells you all you need to know about Romney's chances in November. But if he wins, nothing will change. The Corporatists are running against each other, and they have control locked up. Looks like a death match between Romney Care and Obama Care to me.... *yawns* Isn't it time we had a third party run by scantily clad roller derby women? That's what the Roman Empire did in these cases. (First female Judaeo-Baal Priest to aspire to the Purple ... later turned into reruns of a Lesbian TV show, I believe. Think Rachel Maddow with armour and a thing for falcons, and an Aryan sidekick.) [The family name of the actress who played 'Lucy Lawless' was Ryan, if you just aren't getting the jokes here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Lawless ]