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Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate
Shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, Republican candidate Mitt Romney officially announced (via phone app) his selection of 42-year-old Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as running mate for the 2012 U.S. presidential race. Ryan's selection was announced by the Romney campaign to various media outlets earlier this morning. Ryan is considered popular among a wide range of Republican voters, being a budget hawk who favors less liberal laws concerning abortion. Ryan's lauded popularity among Tea Party voters is mixed; some reports describe him as a Tea Party favorite, others as a far-right imposter.
Wrong dill hole we can discuss evolution or creation or Muons and Hadrons but politics is sleezy humanism. The only importance it maintains in our society is what credit peole like YOU give it. There is nothing 'technical' about this story. timothy shouldn't be banned he's offered lots of good stories for us but someone should smack him thats for sure.
> That removes five of the best possible options of highly qualified, popular Republican women: Susan Collins or
> Olympia Snow (Maine Senators), Linda Lingle (former Hawaii Governor), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska Senator), or
> Jodi Rell (former Connecticut governor).
Dude. If you think it is their abortion stance that disqualifies those losers you really don't pay attention. One of the Maine Sisters is quitting because she has become too left for Maine, the other will also probably quit when she is up for reelect. Murky could't win her primary and is HATED by her party. Lingle and Rell are ok for their deep blue states but would add nothing to a ticket already populated by a White Rino at the top.
Ryan on the other hand has been leading. Picking him sends a message that Romney really intends to make the economy issue #1 and do something other than blather platitudes about it. The problem is that now the economy will not be allowed to be THE issue because it one Obama is certain to lose with. So we will get a pivot to a foreign crisis right after the conventions. So obvious.
And this ticket does have diversity, just not one the left recognizes often. A Mormon and a Jew are prettty non-mainstream in a country that is majority Protestant with non-religious probably closing in on #2. But religion is too close to thought and diversity of thought is the forbidden diversity for the left. To them the word means people of all color, sex, gender identity and sexual perversion (but a perversion of some sort seems to be preferred) coming together to think exactly the same.
Democrat delenda est
And if YOU could get away from the Soros/Think Progress/CAP/Kos talking points you might realize we aren't for 'tax cuts for the wealthy' we are for either keeping rates WHERE THEY ARE AND HAVE BEEN FOR A DECADE or for a major overhaul of the tax code to reduce rates across the board in exchange for eliminating deductions, carveouts and loopholes such that it is revenue neutral on the static CBO scoring but will actually produce MORE revenue to the treasury, almost all from the 'wealkthy', from a growing economy.
Wow! The liberal mods are out today. You know, the ones that are out to mod down any comment they are unable to counter so they do whatever they can to silence it. In this case, it was labeled "Troll", even though there is absolutely nothing "trollish" about it. It's the same way that liberals will call conservatives "racist" or "only looking out for the rich".
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Marxism and Fascism are both on the left as far as economics go (state control). Free market capitalism is on the right.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Something being popular now (while it was unpopular in the past) does not mean it is good. Intellectual debate should actually discuss ideas, instead of just cheerleading what is popular and seems to be becoming more popular.
Which means that on social issues, Europe is dominated by leftism.
That would making the debate even more debased and ad hominem and fallacious (guilt by association, straw man) than it already is.
I don't know why I am even responding to this. You are posting AC for a reason.