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From his home state of Wisconsin, Rep. Paul Ryan endorsed Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday's primary there. He said Romney "is the best person to be president" and "best person to beat" President Obama.
"Mitt Romney is clearly that person," he said this morning on Fox and Friends.
He said he "spent a good deal of time with Romney" and "I am convinced Mitt Romney has the skills, principle, courage, and tenacity to do what it takes to get America back on track."
He also stressed that the "primary could enter a phase when it becomes counterproductive if this drags on much longer."
He added that he hasn't been able to touch base with Rick Santorum yet, will do so later today, but the point he would make to him, Ryan said -- after spending the last six months figuring out what it takes to run and fund a presidential campaign -- is that he's "convinced if this drags out into the summer, it's just going to make it tougher to beat Barack Obama. The more we drag it out, the harder it is to beat" Obama. He said conservatives need to “coalesce."
Ryan has for the past six months led the Republican National Committee's presidential fundraising efforts as head of the RNC's Presidential Trust.
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What more could he want. H. W. Bush, Ryan, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush. My god, he must be in heaven. Oh wiat, do mormons go to heaven?
Actually, no. They believe in a three-tiered arrangement where the top dogs go to a "Celestial Glory" and the ordinary people go to a "Terrestial Glory".
Even in the hereafter, Mormons believe some people are simply better than others.
My GOD ! A DICTATOR for a DICTATOR doesn't that beat all. This RYAN is A PURE Communist EXTREMIST that is a FANATICAL LUNATIC. If it is not BUSINESS & MONEY HE WANTS NOTHING OF IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO KILL.
He is the RIGHT hand DEVIL!! One that down right TELLS and I say TELLS the PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY what to DO. He is so pro BUSINESS, CORPORATION, LOBBYIST,SPECIAL INTEREST, SELFISH, HAS NO PEOPLE SKILLS, COLD AS ICE, NOT FOR THE NATION BUT MONEY ONLY,OUT OF TOUCH.
THIS MAN IS NOT HUMAN. HE HAS NO COMPASSION NONE, NOT EVEN A SOUL !!! BEWARE OF THIS GUY.
I can see right through him. He does not fool me none of them do !!!
So tell us how you really feel...don't hold back or anything...just lay it on the line! LOL!
The purpose of 70-94% top marginal rates was not to raise revenue,
and it was not to fund a welfare state. These rates started at
incomes equivalent to over half a million dollars a year in today’s dollars, and
only applied to a small fraction of the top 1%. Both of the major
entitlement programs of the 20th Century had their own dedicated
regressive funding through the payroll tax. The purpose of these
rates was to limit the growth and compounding of aristocracy. It
was to guard against the rise of a class that could challenge or control the
federal government. These are not my ideas, they are
Jefferson’s
Tax cuts that are aimed exclusively at the super-rich are inconsistent with our
nation’s founding principles. The truth is that what most
Republicans advocate, be it through the Ryan plan, or the Fair Tax, or the
recently published Heritage report, is actually far more in-line with the
pre-1776 world, than it is with the post-1776 world.
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/490751-josh-dowlut/185282-gdp-growth-rates-pre-reagan-tax-cuts-vs-post-regan-tax-cuts
Regan ran us off the cliff, The 1% and the GOP is out to rape America of all it's assets then bail to where their yachts are parked Thus leaving the trillions in to poor America.
Crap my edit got bumped , this was supposed to be a responce to comment 2
RYAN IS WRONG FOR THIS NATION ! Period. He is far from representing the Mass of the People of this Country !
He is on a path of destroying the very fabric of this NATION. And he will LOOK AT THE BUDGET he and his followers are trying to push through. This is CLASS SEPARATION 100%!!!
I don't get this. Why does Media go nuts when some politician endorses another politician. Specifically people like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, etc. endorse Romney. Who would expect them to endorse anybody other than Romney. Who else do they have.. Santorum? or Gingrich? or President Obama? ( you know they wouldn't do that). So why is it a big deal?
Mikemaj1, because the politician they're endorsing is a crappy candidate and everybody knows it! Romney can't even get the votes he needs from Republicans in order to "win" the Repubulican Nomination so they go after his competitors to "drop out".
THAT is why it's a "big deal" because these endorsements are phoney! Republicans are trying to "save face". Republicans already know that they can't get the votes to give Romney the Republican Nomination, AND they already know that Romney can NOT beat President Obama! None of these Republicans can!
President Obama is a president that is "by the people, and for the people" and THAT is what a REAL President is supposed to be!
Republicans don't work for anybody but the top 1% wealthiest in this country.
Obama / Biden 2012
Well said Americangirl....let us just hope and pray that things continue to improve between now and November. I really don't want to get stuck with Romney.
Ryan has already proven himself a failure in his home state. Confidence in this guy is gone according to the home state polls and yet he appears as a hero/savior to the right. Speaks volumes...
It's funny to listen to the right side crying for the freedoms back and yet when challenged to list which freedoms have been lost, nothing... How's that given the popluation of these folks in here? You guys can't come up with anything? There was far more infringement on freedoms when the Patriot Act passed and implemeted.
Another point... The terms Socialist and Marxist are being thrown aroud in here with impunity. I challenge anyone person in here to first identify a credible leader in the socialist movement and (or) a recognized Marxist and provide statements/quotes adopting the President as one of theirs.
Talk is cheap. Not backing up that talk is expensive. It bankrupts ones credibility and character.
Why do failures like Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachman keep getting reelected ? If the people in their district would not vote for them, THAT would prove the fallacy of their policies more than anything else.
"Paul Ryan endorses Romney"
It might as well be The Kiss of Death!
Two One Percent Suck Ups trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare Insurance-The Third Rail of Politics is sure to get Romney elected. I Hope he remembers that as he is going down in Flames Too when the Old Folks throw his One Percent A$$ to the Curb!
Don't Mess with the Third Rail of Politics Boys, you're gonna be sorry!
It's Common knowledge that Republicans have been trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare Insurance for the Past Thirty Years...
what is wrong with you liberals. Can't you hear? Can't you read? Can't you think for yourselves? Ryan is making an attempt to save medicare and social security. No one on the democratic side has proposed anything to save these plans, other than tax the rich, that's it. That won't get it done. Harry Reid for the 3rd year says he won't allow a vote in the Senate. Why not? The law says congress should pass a budget but Reid has refused. Ryan's plan takes nothing away from current seniors or those that will be eligible for the next 7 - 10 years. Younger people will get whatever the new plan is. What you should be angry about is that democrats only demonize republicans for proposing plans and offer nothing. They should discuss it, offer changes, come up with something that helps save the programs. The country is near 16 trillion in debt. Democrats are regulating the life out of the country and all they do is spend spend spend, and want to tax tax tax. GOOD GRIEF
Steve,
Yes there are Budget Problems but forget your selective memory for a Nanosecond and remember that we had a balanced budget before Bush the Magic Moron Squandered it and now you're saying that we need the very same people back in Power who not only Squandered that Surplus but turned it into the Largest Deficit in American History.
You're just not making any sense Sonny Boy and you might fool the Kiddies with that Con Job but you're not fooling me!
As far as I am concerned the Republicans need to stay out of the Cookie Jar for at least Five Decades until they learn their lesson...
TO: Steve-3200687 who wrote:
Those are the same damn questions we've been asking Republicans ever since Republicans began defending the indefensible George W. Bush.
I don't know if I wanna laugh or puke!
Republicans have NEVER wanted to "save" Social Security, nor do Republicans want to give us back our money with interest paid thereon at the legal rate.
Republicans want to keep EVERY PENNY of our Social Security money and they are trying to use their political positions to ROB US BLIND!
Obama / Biden 2012
Actually, there were several attempts to put forth different budgets by the Democrats; however, because they included tax increases, the Grover Norquist party rejected them.
Ryan wants too turn Medicare into a "voucher" program.
I have not been paying into the medicare system all of my life to retire and get a phucking coupon instead of a health care system.
Amen, Thermen!
Thermen Merman
I Love your Avatar (Picture) It say s just about all that needs to be said!
That Picture Speaks Volumes!
Thermen- precisely my exact sentiments!
TO: Bob in Virginia-5210392 who wrote:
What a crock! Republicans LOST that "big government" argument 20 years ago when Democrat President Bill Clinton REDUCED the size of government by more than HALF, and right behind him came Republican George W. Bush who TRIPLED the size of government and then permanently installed his own personal cronies in an attempt to continue to run the country even after he was put out of office!
Likewise, Republicans continue to use Big Government to try to legislate AGAINST WOMEN and Republicans do their best to DENY WOMEN our rights under the law, and Republicans lead a never-ending-quest to "take back the womb".
Obama / Biden 2012
Looking like a good back and forth going on here. Sorry I have to sign off for awhile. Major wind and rainstorm going on where I live. Need to go out and make sure the car elevators are working so I can get all of my vehicles up to the third floor. Don't want them to be left out in the cold and wet.
Will your car elevators handle a pair of Cadillacs?
(Can't let the cars for the help mate of the patriarch get wet!)
While we're discussing endorsements ...
Where is SHRUB?
ARE REPUBLICANS ASHAMED OF BUSH???
I can't get a Republican to even answer this question.
Porter, probably because they're too embarassed to admit that they know who "George W. Bush" is.
Obama / Biden 2012
And if you look at the actual policy proposals of the current crop of Republicans, they're the same as Bush.
They like to use the phrase "failed presidency". Bush's years are the defining example of a failed presidency!
(On my Vine site, I reprinted the "Top Ten Evils of Bush" ... We need to remember these things.)
I think the shrub is now hiding under the big bush.
Maybe he is trying to get away from all of the GOP candidates stampeding for his endorsement? (total sarc)
Steve, you're quite the comedian with remarks describing Ryan as a saviour to those programs. I like the little qualifier you tossed in there about not touching seniors over the next 7-10 years but the new folks will get the "new" plan.
My God, I've read everything now. It would be nice if the Republicans would come to the table but they consistently refuse. Hell, they even refused to debate a number of issues oin the House floor.
Just another example of mr grover, gop, & rushbo's plan where romeny, i mean the rich get richer, the poor poorer. Where romney pays less than janitors & secretaries in taxes. And james bamford, an expert of the nsa surveillance of citizens on this country, says that we are just an inch away from totalitarianism. The gop envisions the hunger camps of poor people in the movie hunger games as the future of this country. Similar to the nazi camps where the imprisoned scramble for a piece of bread.
But the gop believe that trickle down works. That romeny plans to put auto elevators in one of his new houses for his cadillac cars. This will give people jobs and they will spend their money at walmart & mcdonalds. The rich get richer, poor poorer. Like in hunger games.
Ryan is nothing but an obstructionist douche. If anything his endorsement makes me even less likely to vote for Romney.
However, I guess they are going for the Republican votes here, not the independents like myself.
Well well, now Romney has to endorse Ryan's budget plan that has no chance of passing. True politics!
I'm always mystified by the support of Obama here. He has created more debt in 3 years than any 5 terms of previous presidents. He promised to oversee the most transparent government processes, but has actually tried to keep us in the dark during the past three years. He has spent over a million dollars hiding his past from us. He is making plans to reduce our military power drastically. Essentially everything he has done in the last 3 years has been geared toward getting re-elected rather than actually working on solving real problems. After ObamaCare is struck down as unconstitutional he has accomplished nothing of consequence. He can't find a way to convince the businessmen of our country to have faith that they can succeed in the future. His recent speeches are full of half-truths and only pointed toward convincing us that he has done a good job. As reflected in the talk with the Russian, he isn't willing to take any political risks until after the coming election, even if delaying the decisions create damage to our country or our relationship with Canada. He and his wife have already spent more of our money on their personal needs than the combined spending of the last three presidential couples. His DOJ head refused to prosecute black panthers that threatened potential voters to keep them away from polls, but he sues states that try to enforce immigration rules that the Feds. refuse to deal with. The damage that he is done can't yet be measured. His continued efforts to divide us by race and economics will continue to cause problems long after he has left office. Please look at what he has actually done, and let's move on to a President with more know-how and character.
What ever possessed Paul Ryan s Pea Brain to think that he was someone important?
After he get s rid of Social Security and Medicare Insurance, you won't be able to recognize him after the Old Folks beat the Hell out of Him with their Strollers...
The Old Folks are on to this Whipper Snapper and the Yong ones are beginning to follow their lead while Paulie is trying to drive a Wedge between them,
It is no Secret that the Republicans have been trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare Insurance for the past Thirty Years and Bush Jr. Damn near did it after he Cleaned out the Treasury!
Written like a true FOX viewer, Saint!
Great post Saint. Except its not really accurate.
Move on to more know how and character? Where would that possibly be? Surely not in the GOP.
Does the road away from the bush debacle scare you that much even though the bush will certainly be able to continue his life and pension without any redress for war crimes, breaking constitutional laws, permitting market fraud and war profiteering during a time of war?
Does that $100 OIL we are now stuck with trip your trigger?
DOJ won't prosecute the Black Panthers? All two of them.
Don't let them discourage you. Both sides tend to be pretty venomous. I don't agree with your points, but I accept that you have the right to have your own perspective. Even if I think it is delusional.
In the current political climate the only people that are heard are the ones shouting the craziest things.
The top 25 hedge fund managers took home $14.4 BILLION in 2011 -- yet paid lower taxes than school teachers.
Meanwhile Republicans advocate even MORE tax cuts for the rich while gutting assistance to the poor, elderly, disabled, young, veterans, jobless, students and other vulnerable people.
Is this fairness and justice under the law? America? This are NOT the values I was raised to believe nor taught that our country represents.
It is time remove these EXTREMIST from government and reshape government to our values. And it is time for EVERYONE to VOTE.
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?"
-- Isaiah, Chapter 10, Verse 1 to 3
Nonsense. if you divide 14.4 by 25, that would be about $575 million per hedge fund manager. According to IRS data in 2009 those with incomes over $1 million paid an average tax rate of 25% on all their income. Even if some of these hedge fund managers paid only a 20% average tax rate, they would have paid about $115 million in federal income tax each. Can you name one teacher who paid $115 million in individual federal income tax??
That same IRS data shows that folks with incomes between $50,000-75,000 paid an average tax rate of 7% on that income. So for a teacher who had total income of $60,000, they would have paid a tax bill of around $4,000. If I remember my math correctly, $115,000,000 is a whole lot more than $4,000.
Rep. Paul Ryan endorsed Mitt Romney!!!! "Two peas in a pod"
The Mitt is really, really, really, rich.
The Ryan is a wannabe.
Both are Supply Siders.
The GOP is scared of Ron Paul....even after all the tricks, lies and black out he is accumulating more delegates than Santorum and Newt...and a little behind Mitt....they are trying to get Santorum and Newt out in hopes that those voters will get behind Mitt ......all this does is prove how Ron Paul is for the people and not the establishment...GO RON PAUL!!
The Ryan endorsement will give Romney a boost.
obama is the worst president in our history......why couldn't the first back president been a qualified black man?..like magic johnson for one........ANYONE BUT obama IN NOVEMBER!
And how will romney sell ryan's plan outside of the neocons/teabaggers/evantilaban circus? That's a hell of a lot of votes to suppress! RIP GOP!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012! We got it straight in 08
really?...look around......this country is a mess....ANYONE BUT obama IN NOVEMBER!
ryan endorses willard ,bbbbwwwwaaahahahaha