Our Next Vice president ?

[slb]

Our Next Vice President?

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Well, early Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States.

What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!

One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.

Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimers, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".

Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.

When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.

After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.

Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville. He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.

For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.

No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.

What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?

I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all!

Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill? Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over.

Party Hearty folks! At least until November.

[divemaster5734]

Good Post.

Much as I hate to say it they are growing on me.

[Snotrocket]

Good Post.

Much as I hate to say it they are growing on me.

Same here Divemaster. I was hoping Romney would choose a VP I could get excited about.....he did good

[desimo]

Keep in mind that the VP is only one heart beat away from being President. Who would you want as President: Biden or Ryan?

[leggman24]

If Ryan was the one running for president, he might just be a shoe in. But sadly enough its Mitt. Thats where the Republicians made there mistake. I am an Independant and dont like either one of them. I did the research on Mitt and to be frank he is not a good man at all. I am going to be looking for someone else to vote for myself. I dont believe the republician party has a chance in this one. When all the skinny comes out about Mitt, he will be done.

[simple]

Ryan becomes weaker each day. Ryan is being hammered for being unequivocally hypocritical.

[slb]

Ryan becomes weaker each day. Ryan is being hammered for being unequivocally hypocritical.

Was that an opinion without stats and links Wishful thinking, O - AKA Jimmy Carter- is going down

Edited September 7, 2012 by slb

[simple]

Was that an opinion without stats and links Wishful thinking, O - AKA Jimmy Carter- is going down

Not wishful thinking - just surprised, I didn't take him as that type. You won't need links in the end.

[cris]

Keep in mind that the VP is only one heart beat away from being President. Who would you want as President: Biden or Ryan?

Lmao...its not even close....I cant wait for Biden to get destroyed in debate with Ryan

Biden...the second stupidest person in any room....next to O'blah

[pragerbabe]

If Ryan was the one running for president, he might just be a shoe in. But sadly enough its Mitt. Thats where the Republicians made there mistake. I am an Independant and dont like either one of them. I did the research on Mitt and to be frank he is not a good man at all. I am going to be looking for someone else to vote for myself. I dont believe the republician party has a chance in this one. When all the skinny comes out about Mitt, he will be done.

Please give some links to the "skinny on Mitt", I have looked into his govenorship, a lot of fees added instead of raising taxes, the healthcare bill (but Mass wanted it didn't they) I haven't found anything that bad. I haven't looked into the Bain business because his sole reason was to buy out weak companies, he may have made cuts that were needed. As far as the "offshore" accounts, didn't the IRS just pass a law a couple years back that foreign banks had to declare US money (except Swiss).

The Dems haven't found something before now that will stick, or are they waiting until the last moment so that he can't make a comeback? I won't change my mind about Romney, the truth about Obama is far worse in my opinion, but I would like to know what to look for if he does win. I do remember Pelosi stating something about having the goods on Mitt-but what?

Divemaster, I will pray for your full conversion!

Thank you Slb, have this in my file but forgot about it, the media will be in full force to tear him down because they are scared he brings too many votes in. Just today I was at the Dr Office and picked up Dec 2011 Newsweek, some headline articles written as presented in the mag: "Nicely Naughty Newt: Tho political establishment gives us Saint Obama and Straight Mitt-that's why Sinner Newt is the one to beat." "Bizarro Books the GOP Reads" "Among the Clowns: Meet Rick 'Crotch' Perry, Newt 'the Vulgarian' Gingrich, and the rest of the GOP contenders..." and finally "Joe Biden, Out Loud" more picture than words.

And they wonder why we call them the LIBERAL media!

[cris]

I guess the Libs are holding all the dirt they have on

Romney/Ryan till the last dramatic second....Till the last possible

moment....And then!!!... (dramatic pause)....They will be exposed!!...DaDaDahhh!!!

These two are like boyscouts compared to O'blah/Biteme... Its going

to be an election to remember....Of course the Lib MSM will spin the news as

Well....We & They really didnt want to win anyway....Hillarious 2016!!!

[simple]

I guess the Libs are holding all the dirt they have on

Romney/Ryan till the last dramatic second....Till the last possible

moment....And then!!!... (dramatic pause)....They will be exposed!!...DaDaDahhh!!!

These two are like boyscouts compared to O'blah/Biteme... Its going

to be an election to remember....Of course the Lib MSM will spin the news as

Well....We & They really didnt want to win anyway....Hillarious 2016!!!

What an idiot - Oh, not you Cris, justsan . Although you don't holdback your unripe expressions and respect to the White House.

I'm not sure why I even replied. November 6th little guy.