Get the word out!

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/378308_372649419468405_308650122_n.jp...

Been hearing a lot of the "R" word on the news.....

Romney, who has been extremely vague about what he would do if elected, will now own Paul Ryan’s ideas, which include privatizing Social Security, turning Medicare into a voucher program, bloc-granting and drastically cutting Medicaid, and reducing discretionary spending to levels that would affect every popular government program.

OBAMA & BIDEN's REACT TO ROMNEY's VP PICK: PAUL RYAN

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oh yeah, it's a fit.....

Top 5 Worst Things About Paul Ryan's Record:
http://emilyslist.org/blog/breaking-mitt-romney-chooses-paul-ryan-vp?et_cid=1016...

It does fit in with the Romney Hood Strategy of "Steal from the Needy to give to the Greedy" now that Ryan fills the role of Little Paul pretty accurately.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3723

"His budget plans include big cuts, The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates 62 percent of Ryan's cuts are to programs for the poor. Ryan's budget proposals have included big changes to Medicare - including gradually replacing the program with a voucher program for private health care, and gradually raising the retirement age. That could scare older Americans, a crucial voting bloc."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/11/1118948/-Paul-Ryan-eviscerated-by-Charl...

"Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn't believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary institution of that commonwealth: our government. The first three words of the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he's ever given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can be channelled for the general welfare."

"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand." Paul Ryan

The case against Paul Ryan for vice president

Congress connection = bad:

People hate Congress — and Washington more generally. That Romney has never spent any time in either is a major plus for his candidacy.

Ryan, on the other hand, is very much a creature of the nation’s capital. Not only has he served in Congress since 1998 — he’s currently the chairman of the Budget Committee — but he also did stints as an aide to Sens. Bob Kasten (Wisc.) and Sam Brownback (Kans.) in the 1990s.

Ryan’s tenure in Congress and his perceived closeness to the party leadership — all of whom blessed his budget proposals as the official document outlining their vision — mean that putting him on the ticket would make Romney answerable for everything Congressional Republicans have done in the past decade and, in particular, the last few years since they re-took the majority. Does Romney want to voluntarily take on that burden?

Political acumen?:

One of the most curious — and little known — facts about Ryan is that he is not a terribly political creature, preferring to immerse himself in the wonkiness of budgets rather than study the ebbs and flows of the electorate. (In keeping with that policy focus, Ryan lacks any significant political/consulting team around him.)

That may be all well and good for a Member of Congress but a lack of interest/acumen for the political game isn’t a good thing in a vice presidential nominee.

(If you need evidence of the dangers of picking a veep with little natural political instinct and no one in their inner circle with deep experience in national politics, we have two words for you: Sarah Palin.)

Romney badly needs a vice presidential pick who can be a political asset not a neutral force politically or even a political liability. Ryan could be that on the campaign trail but based on what we know now, picking him would be a clear risk for Romney.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-case-against-paul-ryan-for-...

NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney announced Saturday he's selected Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate. The announcement came just after 7am ET via Mitt's VP, a mobile application launched by the campaign earlier this month.

According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will appear with his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states. The campaign offered no further details, and aides traveling with Ronney declined to comment.

The Romney campaign's confirmation comes hours after multiple news organizations, including NBC News, the Huffington Post, the Associated Press and CNN, cited sources saying Romney would name Ryan--reports the campaign refused to confirm. Early Saturday morning, the site, RomneyRyan.com, began referring to a page on Romney's official campaign website touting "America's Comeback Team."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-0321400...

Four little rich kids: