Ryan is a courageous choice?
For once I agree with the Washington Post. Paul Ryan was not a courageous choice as the vice presidential candidate for this year’s presidential campaign. He was the right choice for the candidate who conservatives doubted his credentials to be a conservative.
Now, Joe Biden, he was a courageous choice. A presidential candidate has to be pretty self-assured to select a bumbling moron as his running mate. Joe Biden has been wrong about every single foreign policy decision in the thirty-or-so years he’s been in Washington.
Aside from the fact that it’s been proven that Biden plagiarized his final school work in college, Biden is quick to tell anyone who will listen how smart he is, despite the evidence to the contrary.
The only thing more courageous than naming Biden as his vice president, was when Obama decided that Biden had a good strategy for Afghanistan – the policy known around these parts as the ninja zombie robot strategy which has been successful in killing a number of al-Qaeda leaders, but has done virtually nothing in the grand strategy of the war in Afghanistan. While the administration says that green-on-blue attacks are having a “negligible” effect on our troops, despite the fact that the treacherous attacks have accounted for more than 10% of US casualties this year.
So thanks for those courageous decisions, Obama. If it wasn’t so sad, we’d be laughing our asses off.
Category: Politics
Joe Biden’s initial problem is that no one is willing to explain to him that those things they inserted into his scalp were hair plugs, and NOT stem cells.
I like Ryan, but is he REALLY going to help the GOP win the independents they NEED to defeat Obama?
JP, well, probably. Especially the conservative ones. And those with enough sense to see that the current occupiers have nothing to offer but destruction.
One’s political position really doesn’t preclude having the intellect to understand that the direction we are headed is unsustainable.
The addition of Paul Ryan means that Romney is perhaps finally ready to make this a really interesting election instead of merely suggesting he is less intolerable than Obama.
Paul Ryan’s budget proposals actually address in real terms how to achieve a progressive reduction in deficit and debt over the next 38 years while stabilizing the current debt as a percentage of GDP. These are hard numbers, and will be uncomfortable but if we intend to keep this great nation great, this is a discussion that needs to happen.
Hopefully they handle it so as not to frighten away the wishy washy middle of the road voters who want the services but don’t actually want to pay for them. That kind of voting has led us to exactly where we are today, elect the president who promises all that we want and a Congress that won’t make us pay for it…time for a real change from that.
I know he was a long shot, but I was still hoping for Allen West. HE would have been a bold pick. Actual executive experience. Military experience. 20 years in the Middle East. Solid family man from the South. Bobby Jindal was my second pick. I find it funny that Paul Ryan is coming across as the fiscally conservative limited government type when he so recently voted for TARP, the bailouts, and No Child Left Behind. Fiscally conservative my ass. That said, at least he and Romney are good men who love this country and are trying to address the issues. Unlike the golf-playing fundraising Marxist in Chief. I have a real problem with the inexperience of people running for POTUS and VP. Compare any of them from the past few elections to Thomas Jefferson: At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor. At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. At 23, started his own law practice. At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America and retired from his law practice. At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence . At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ‘s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. At 40, served in Congress for two years. At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington. At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society. At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of the Republican Party. At 57, was elected the third president of the United… Read more »
@Common Sense – These votes are troubling to me as well, and they’re not the only ones. Though I still think he’s the best pick out of the cast of probables.
As for TJ – nobody will ever reach that bar, and I’m not sure the fundamentalist wing of the modern GOP would be able to support him.
@6 There are no equals to the founders now.
They were men who were risking their wealth and their lives to create this nation. Failure didn’t mean a restart, it meant death by hanging…they were the original radical liberals plotting the overthrow of the government in place and replacing it with a nation of equals.
Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Ray Dalio, Romney, Ryan, Obama, Biden…do you think any of these “great men” would risk all that they had for a similar pursuit? Not a chance, we would still be serving the monarchy of England if these men were in charge in 1776.
I also agree with your last comment, TJ would never be nominated due to his libertarian views being at odds with the fundamentalist right of the GOP.