"Social Darwinism", exactly.
BTW, I just heard that, if elected, Romney will move the capital to the Cayman Islands.
Romney Announces Paul Ryan as His VP Pick: Will He Be Able to Win With This Ticket?
SodaHead Politics
2012/08/11 14:46:57
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Early Saturday morning, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced that he had chosen Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election.
42-year-old Ryan, is considered a rising GOP star and the party’s leader on fiscal and budgetary issues. Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and the architect of the House GOP’s budget proposal, and his selection as Romney’s vice-presidential pick ensures that the economy will be the defining issue of the election.
Ryan’s place on the ticket is sure to appease the party’s conservative wing, which has never fully warmed to the more moderate Romney. In Ryan, they find a like-minded ally who supports dramatic policy solutions to the U.S.’s fiscal woes. Ryan, who is an energetic debater, will bring youthful vigor to the campaign and will help Romney in Wisconsin and across the Midwest.
However, Ryan also comes with some downsides. Thus far, Romney’s campaign has been geared toward making the election a referendum on the president. Now, Romney is tied to a very specific budget plan that has a name and a face and has been widely criticized by Obama and his fellow democrats. In an April speech, Obama called Ryan’s budget plan a "thinly veiled social Darwinism." Romney’s choice in Ryan will certainly energize the GOP base, but it will also energize Democrats who do not want to see “the end of Medicare as we know it.”
So SodaHeads, what do you think about Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate? Will he be able to win with this ticket?
42-year-old Ryan, is considered a rising GOP star and the party’s leader on fiscal and budgetary issues. Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and the architect of the House GOP’s budget proposal, and his selection as Romney’s vice-presidential pick ensures that the economy will be the defining issue of the election.
Ryan’s place on the ticket is sure to appease the party’s conservative wing, which has never fully warmed to the more moderate Romney. In Ryan, they find a like-minded ally who supports dramatic policy solutions to the U.S.’s fiscal woes. Ryan, who is an energetic debater, will bring youthful vigor to the campaign and will help Romney in Wisconsin and across the Midwest.
However, Ryan also comes with some downsides. Thus far, Romney’s campaign has been geared toward making the election a referendum on the president. Now, Romney is tied to a very specific budget plan that has a name and a face and has been widely criticized by Obama and his fellow democrats. In an April speech, Obama called Ryan’s budget plan a "thinly veiled social Darwinism." Romney’s choice in Ryan will certainly energize the GOP base, but it will also energize Democrats who do not want to see “the end of Medicare as we know it.”
So SodaHeads, what do you think about Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate? Will he be able to win with this ticket?
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JCD aka "biz" 2012/08/11 15:17:02
Biden is a full fledge idiot.
... But I'm getting to the point where I don't care who wins. Vote for who you want, America! Let's see where your choice gets us!
I'll reserve further comment until such time as I receive an INTELLIGENT response.
2. No.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
http://www.nj.com/hudson/voic...
Numbers are just about the only things that ARE neutral these days.
You're welcome :-)
Promise Kept 190 (37%)
Compromise 71 (14%)
Promise Broken 81 (16%)
Stalled 50 (10%)
In the Works 114 (22%)
Not yet rated 2 (0%)
PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
Is that what you thought?
Click on the ruling to see all of Romney's statements for that ruling.
True23 (15%)(23)
Mostly True21 (14%)(21)
Half True43 (28%)(43)
Mostly False24 (16%)(24)
False27 (18%)(27)
Pants on Fire14 (9%)(14)
Obama's statements by ruling
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True91 (23%)(91)
Mostly True91 (23%)(91)
Half True100 (25%)(100)
Mostly False47 (12%)(47)
False58 (15%)(58)
Pants on Fire6 (2%)(6)
Or this?
What legitimate news or statistical agency uses the phrase "pants on fire" to illustrate statistics? And you called my citing Forbes "not neutral?"
This is your web site?
Ryan's ratings were less positive than those for any other vice presidential pick part of Gallup since 2000, including Sarah Palin, Joe Biden and Dick Cheney. The only other recent vice presidential selection to gain net negative ratings was Dan Quayle in 1988.
Americans' initial reaction to Paul Ryan is decidedly lukewarm, with more rating his selection as vice president negatively than positively, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll taken after the announcement.
Ryan's ratings were less positive than those for any other vice presidential pick part of Gallup since 2000, including Sarah Palin, Joe Biden and Dick Cheney. The only other recent vice presidential selection to gain net negative ratings was Dan Quayle in 1988.
Just idle musings. No more.
What they have done is given Obama an escape goat the attack machine is in full swing this morning every other story in the news is about Ryan and how he and his ideals are to blame for everything that is wrong with America as far as the White House is concerned anyway.
What that means is they can continue in attack mode for the next 3 months and never have to run on the Obama Record and i don't think that in anyway will help Romney win whats more is i believe he just split the Moderate/Independent Vote which actually decides elections.
So my answer is a Firm "NO" (lets just hope i am wrong)