I guess its good for the GOP that the worst thing they have on Ryan so far is the climate change thing. You think by now they would have found a DUI, a racist remark, or a jilted lover. I’ll bet every time in his life that Paul Ryan didn’t ask to be excused from the dinner table is being analyzed from six different angles to see if it might be used against him.
Too funny.
Nope, I’m just starting, to see who is really using scripture (but it seems that it is from a very peculiar new testament) Paul Ryan revealed one of the main reasons why he opposes health care law, you see, god told him that it was the right thing to do.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/01/paul-ryan-repeal-health-law-because-rights-come-from-god/
Other than wanting to destroy Medicare, give huge tax cuts to the wealthy, ramp up defense spending, and gutting every other federal program.
Romney can no longer frame this as a referendum on Obama- it’s now a choice election. Does the public want radical right wingers to have full control of the government? No way in hell.
Elizabeth Warren’s already running against the Ryan choice.
Just personal jabs with no reply dealing with what the scientists say; once again, Ryan and many Republicans do have even more extreme ideas. And they ignore even what conservative scientists are telling them.
This idea came up a lot before the 2008 election (where both candidates were Senators so one winning was guaranteed.) Obama was criticized for not starting any big initiatives in the Senate - this maybe was deliberate.
And that makes you better than Paul Ryan. Let’s be perfectly clear here. Paul Ryan isn’t proposing what you are. He’s not saying “we don’t know quite enough”. Every indication we have shows that he’s pushing very hard for the “there is no AGW” angle. And that is not okay.
Do you not understand why this is so dishonest?
Link?
That’s not what he said. He was talking about the concept of natural law; that rights don’t come from government but from nature or from God. It’s in the Declaration of Independence. It’s hardly radical. It’s not even religious because many atheists agree with the concept that some rights are simply inherent and that any government that opposes them are evil.
I agree with this. This country has hard choices to make regarding entitlements, if we are to avoid becoming another Greece. Enough of the imbecilic “strategies” from both sides (from the Right: “Let’s cut waste!”; from the Left: “Let’s tax the rich!”) that are painless (to most voters) and ineffective on their own. To say the least.
Someone needs to sell the hard facts to the American public, that we need to make major changes, and some things will not be the same as before. But I’m afraid this is not the ticket that can pull it off. It’s easier to run on those popular things that will end up driving us off the cliff. That seems to be how people vote.
That’s Romney care, and it is a pretty pitiful argument. Federalism is not a hot issue for real people. Mandates are evil or they aren’t, and states doing them are no better.
Anyhow, we’re talking Medicare, which got settled almost 50 years ago. I can just imagine how Florida would love being responsible for Medicare.
Rick Scott would love it. He’s an old hand at extracting the greatest possible (though not the greatest legal) profit from Medicare…
As I said earlier, your contentions can and will be debated in other threads. If Obama can convince voters that Paul Ryan wants to do the things you described, then he wins.
If Romney and Ryan can convince voters that his plan will balance the budget while providing seniors with superior health care, give tax relief to job creators, protect us from terrorists, and trimming unnecessary federal programs, then they win.
Game on. 
Ryan isn’t a moron, true. He can probably say which papers he reads. But Palin was picked to add excitement to the ticket, and to get women mad at Hilary losing involved. She also didn’t have the obvious baggage Ryan does. McCain also never tacked as right during the primaries as Romney did.
In both cases, though, the candidates caved into pressure from the far right.
Gerldine Ferarro was a member of Congress in 1984.
The last sitting member of Congress nominated as vice president on the winning ticket was John Nance Garner in 1932, and he was the sitting Speaker of the House, so he had that going for him.
I’m not sure how that makes sense, we are supposed to be ruled by the Constitution not the declaration of independence. And many do think that the real natural thing to do and based on simple charity is that all humans should have access to health care.
When was the last time an incumbent president was re-elected with > 8% unemployment?
For that matter, when was the last time a Black president was re-elected?
Luckily for us, throwing non-rich seniors over the cliff to save money is considered as positive for the far right.
Ryan, unlike Palin, is well defined to people paying attention. Kind of like Goldwater.
But they have children. One point - my father-in-law, who is 96 and a lifelong Republican, is voting for Obama. He didn’t like Romney - he likes Ryan less. And he lives in Pennsylvania so his vote counts unlike my California one.