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Subscribe to RSSLAKEWOOD, CO -- Congressman Paul Ryan found himself in the battleground state of Colorado Tuesday, but not exactly in the capacity he had imagined several months back, he says.
Ryan, who was tapped as Mitt Romney’s running mate this weekend, held his first solo campaign rally today in a Denver suburb about an hour away from where he had said he was to be camping with his family during congressional recess.
“I was actually planning on being here in Colorado this week, only on my family vacation,” Ryan told the crowd inside Lakewood High School. “You see my family is over at our national forest here in Colorado while we speak, we come here every summer, I've been climbing fourteeners in this great state for over 20 years in this great state.”
"Fourteeners" is a reference to Colorado's 14,000-foot Rocky Mountain peaks.
The reception for the GOP vice-presidential nominee at his first solo campaign rally was enthusiastic -- his nearly 20-minute speech in The Centennial State brought the 2,000-plus person crowd to their feet several times.
This pro-Romney-Ryan-ticket crowd was a big change from Monday -- when the Wisconsin congressman was stumping in Iowa at the state fair and was drowned out by hecklers during most of his speech.
During Ryan’s first full week campaigning since the VP announcement, he will hit six different battleground states on his own: Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. It’s a mix of both rallies and fundraisers.
Last night, the congressman held two closed press fundraisers in the Denver area and tonight he will hold a “finance meeting” at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. It is unclear if Sheldon Adelson -- the billionaire who backs Romney and even attended a fundraiser in Israel for the ticket -- will attend tonight’s meeting.
The Romney campaign says it has now raised $7.4 million online from more than 101,000 donations, since the Ryan pick was announced.
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OH MY!
Eddie managed to fill a high school stadium!
How impressive! lmao
The President can draw 12,000 supporters without breaking a sweat!
Romney/Ryan 2012 - The Road to Ruination!
Funny, Willard never seemed to draw a crowd of 2,000.
Sorry, GOP Willard is your man.
This is Sarah Palin all over
The VP candidate is drawling larger crowds that the Presidential candidate
president hand picks 12000 idiots like Feisty to bark at the carnival. Pavlovs dogs
I know this made Little Eddie happy. However, he and Willard are still going to lose.
Just wait for Ryan to whip them up into a hateful frenzy the way Palin did!
Who will ever forget those real Americans shouting KILL HIM!
Caesar,
[president hand picks 12000 idiots like Feisty to bark at the carnival]
Of course the RNC and the Romney campaign isn't capable of doing the same … Right?
If the best you have is to say President Obama is American Idol, we are truly screwed. When you are more worried about Obama being like Kardashians.
Hey make sure to let me know First Read puts up the article when Obama mans up and discusses current events instead of the typical lefty deflection First read likes to use.
Yeah.. its really getting harder to keep you sheep in line and keep from bolting! Romney put a dog in a pet carrier on the roof of a car: Obama ate dogs!
Dennis & Caesar: of course the GOP doesn't bring out actual, live, thinking people. If they had those, Republicans would be,
well,
um,
Democrats.
So you see, they have to find as many non-thinking people (no brains there) and Corporate sponsors (no brains there either) as they can. No brains needed in the GOP.
ZOMBIES for ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 !!!!
It's so Palin all over again, isn't it? And like Palin, Paul Ryan's political career is over after this. And talking about our national parks, as if Ryan's plan doesn't cut funds to everything the commoners enjoy. Once they open it up for drilling Ryan figures he will just jet his family somewhere else...
sandy-1851937 -- And they better screen those folks. Having spoiled produce thrown at them wouldn't be good.
Liber-tards are envy that double R can bring big crowds. Obama crowd is full of public employees union affiliated. I was in Mannassas Virginia to welcome Romney after he announce his VP , the place was pack , people where exited , I had to walk 5 blocks to find the end of the line 2 hours before the speech,and still more people coming, I meet people from all ages , families with children's, man, woman, elders and people that regret voting for Obama. Across the street was the Obama campaign Office with a few people receiving instructions from Rep. Connolly (D) in order to disrupt the meeting. By the way ,"Launch Bucket" Biden don't even get half of people than Ryan. Pathetic old man.
Its impressive that people would take time off from work to see any politician. Obama, being supported by the lazy, non-workers, college students wasting their time and thugs has no problem drawing crowds assuming Teen Mother isn't on the tube.
I don't give a tinker's da*n how many twisted demonic Republican-T-Party racists show up at Willard's 'n Ryan's hatefests!
I just want to see those da*n tax returns...
HEY WILLARD! SHOW US THEM TAXES!
Did ANYONE in that stadium NOT ASK this DESTROYER called RYAN, WHY he plans to CUT EDUCATION FUNDING??
Gosh people can not be that stupid. OR are they BRAINWASHED SHEEPS.
Both!!!
Maybe you should go online and see that the school districts with largest budget per pupil are at the bottom of performance ranking. Money alone doesn't buy performance, it depends how wisely it is spent! Obama's education plan, not his promises to the public, is designed to make the teachers union more powerful.
Any money Democrats spend or promise to spend are designed to buy votes for their party, not better education results!
Isn't there a proverb floating around which says something about it being better to simply be thought a fool rather than opening your mouth and proving it? Also, sheep is already plural - no need to call them "sheeps"...just saying.
Katie: is it moose or mooses, fish or fishes, mouse and mouses ?
jk/ me and the mice will leave now. :)
Speaking of Sheep.
Why do Republican TeaBilly Conservatives take their Sheep to da Edge of da Cliff? Answer..........So they Push Back.....LOL.
Why did Republican TeaBilly Conservatives start to Marry Women? Answer........Because Sheep can't Cook....LOL.
You BetCha.....Fer Sure.
Since we increased education funding in America private colleges have become wealthy and America is barely in the top 20 worldwide in education. Your solution that we should do more of the same failed policies exemplifies why stupid people are the problem, not lack of funding.
Like I said it will get harder and harder for the liberal media to ignore that this country is hungry for better leadership in the White House. Romney/Ryan 2012!
too bad the GOP haven't produced anyone to give better leadership.
ZOMBIES for ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 !!!!!
Nice job...NBC! Sneaking in information that Ryan was heckled for almost his whole speech... the hecklers were removed immediately at the start of the speech. And then you mention the billionaire which doesn't fit the article and slyly puts the Obama points on putting on rich man as being un-American! At least, Andrea Mitchell showed you real colors lambasting Romney/Ryan as being against women How does it feel to be Obama's little press servant? It is a sad day for NBC!!
So: facts: Ryan was heckled, he is going to meet the billionaire casino mogul and ARE Romney/Ryan really anti-American ? From the budget they propose, I would say they are.
Posted by dls 37641 Excellent List and Explains da Evil Agenda from da Republican TeaBilly Conservatives.
The Kind of Men who support Mitt “F da Poor “ Romney and Paul “Middle Class Warfare” Ryan.
1) William Koch, Runs Oxbow Carbon, worth $4 Billion, Donation $2 Million to Romney’s Super PAC,
What He Wants: To pollute for free, Koch’s fortune is tied to some of the nation’s dirtiest industries
2) Harold Simmons (a Swift Boater and corporate raider), Traffics in Toxic Chemicals, worth $9.8 Billion, Donation $800,000 to Romney total giving $16.7 Million, What He Wants: Plans to store radioactive waste in Texas
3) Bob Perry, Owner of Perry Homes, Worth $600 Million, Donation $4 Million to Romney’s Super PAC ,
What He Wants: Tort reform to limit jury awards on homebuilders who do shoddy work
4) Jim Davis, Chairman New Balance Shoes, worth $1.8 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC
What He Wants: A lucrative Defense Contract
5) Richard & Bill Marriott, Heir to Marriott Hotel Fortune, Worth $3.3 Billion, Donation $2 Million
to Restore Our Future, What He Wants: A legal pool of foreign born workers to work in their hotels at slave labor rates Romney served twice on the Marriott Board
7) Edward Conard, Ex Managing Director of Bain Capital, Worth $250 Million, Donation $1 Million to
Restore Our Future, What He Wants: To screw taxpayers like Romney does with half the tax rates of others
8) Frank VanderSloot, CEO Melaeuca, Inc., Worth $1 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super
PAC , What He Wants: Less consumer protections
9) Steven Lund, Vice Chairman Nu Skin Enterprises, worth $31.9 Million, Donation $2 Million to Restore
Our Future, What He Wants: A world safe for false advertising & marketing scams
10) Julian Robertson Jr., Hedge Fund Titan, worth $2.5 Billion, Donation $1.25 Million to Restore Our
Future What He Wants: lower taxes for the Rich
11) John Paulson, Hedge Fund Titan, worth $12.5 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC
What He Wants: No restrictions on Wall St. gambling
12) Paul Singer, Hedge Fund Titan, Worth $1 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC What He
Wants: He Needs Fed backing in his lawsuit to collect $2 Billion from Argentina
13) Robert Mercer, CEO Renaissance Technologies, made $125 Million in 2011 alone, Donation $ 1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC ,What He Wants: To squelch a proposed tax on stock options
14) Kenneth Griffin, CEO Citadel LLC, worth $3 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Restore our Future What He
Wants: To end Volcker Rule on Dodd-Frank Wall St excesses
15) L. Francis Rooney III, CEO Rooney Holdings, worth $40 Million, Donation $1 Million to Restore our
Future What He Wants: More building contract patronage
16) Steven Webster, CEO Avista Capital, worth $4 Billion, Donation $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC
What He Wants: To Drill baby drill first owner of Deep Sea Horizon the worst environmental disaster in the Nation’s history.
17) Donald Trump, Casino Operator who knows what he wants he is just a delusional birther nut
Follow the $$$, Following the $$$$$, Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Excellent, can I repost this?
Donna
Mitt "F da Poor" Romney and Paul “Middle Class Warfare” Ryan are nothing more than Two “Howdy Doodie Political Puppets” sitting on da Koch Brothers Lap.
You BetCha....Fer Sure.
Yo,
Myth "F da Poor" Romney and Paul " Middle Class Warfare" Ryan.........Good Luck getting the other 99% to vote for ya. You BetCha…..Fer Sure.
Love,
Sarah P.
Saw this in another Article........Great Description of Paul Ryan and really funny.
"At first glance, Ryan looks uncannily like a grown-up Eddie Munster. His gloomy expression, gray complexion and huge widow's peak make him look like some baleful predator.
Herman / Eddie Munster 2012..........da Republican TeaBilly Conservative Choice.....LOL.
And John “Look at my” Boehner can be Grandpa.
You BetCha.....Fer Sure.
If it were up to Mitt “ F da Poor” Romney and Paul “Middle Class Warfare” Ryan…………they would only allow Corporations to Vote and not da Public. Remember Folks…..Corporations are People too.
You BetCha…..Fer Sure.
Folks,
Who just Blocked da Campaign Finance Reform Bill?
Who just Blocked Obama’s Jobs Bill?
Who rewrote and put a Loophole in da House Version of da Stock Act Bill ?
You Guessed it……Boehner, McConnell , Cantor and da rest of them Republican TeaBilly Politicians…… Can you Imagine da Shenanigans if Romney and Ryan get in.
By da Way…….Did any of these Republican TeaBilly Conservative Politicians Vote to Repeal their Own Socialist Healthcare that they Receive.? You know…………da one that that Covers them and their Families (Including Birth Control) all paid for by Our Tax $$$$$$$$.
I hear Crickets Chirping……
Lets break this down in simple terms. Republican TeaBilly Conservative = Self Righteous Hypocrite.
Ryan/Romney=Suppression for the middle-class.
Folks, I am sure it won’t be long before John “Look at My” Boehner pulls Paul “Middle Class Warfare” Ryan to the side and give him the Ole Speech? I am sure the Conversation will go like this:
Before we let ya join our Good Ole Boys CLub we needs to make sure ya got ya mind right. Don't make us put ya in da box to get ya mind right boy.
Now listen to me son, we like to use the " Guns, Gay Marriage, Babies and Gawd" issues as a front. Oh yea, it's a real vote getter, but we both no nothin gonna happen with it, now don't we.
Now after ya got ya mind right we want to introduce ya to some people. They are called Lobbyist, Special Interest, and the Self Righteous. They will explain their Evil agenda against the Middle Class and you just tell them how much $$$$$ ya want in the Ole Briefcase.
Other than that Boy, have lots of fun, make all kinds of false promises, smile a lot, pretend ya are really listening to the Fine Folks out there, and use the back door with the Ole Brief Case at night ya hear!
Soon it will be the Ryan/Romney ticket. People like Ryan much more than they like Romeny....but Americans do not trust either one.
Obama/Biden 2012
Wow! Ryan is truly impressive! Frequently presidential candidates will pick a doofus like Biden as their running mate to so they can look good by comparison. Other times they will pick a VP just to bring in a particular segment of the electorate, as with Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro. The fact that Romney has chosen Ryan shows that he has a great deal of self confidence. More importantly, it shows that he is assembling a top-notch management team. As a businessman, he realizes that a tough challenge, like undoing Obama's mischief, will take the very highest quality team to accomplish.
Romney chose a running mate who is smart and tough and who can best help him fix the mess this country is in. Maybe bringing in votes in critical battlegrounds would have been a better choice, but it shows that his priorities are our country first; politics last. … Just the opposite of Obama.
Could hear the applause and sighs of relief from where I am -- get rid of the stench of B.O. in our White House!
why doesn't nbcnews coverage the very large story of male DHS officers suing DHS Janet Napolitano office for sexual harassment.
Just lost my supper--oh LGBT and GLAAD I apologize for the insult--please do not come to my house demanding me to accept this vision :I
I hope they raise alot of money, at least someone is getting the 1% money that should be going into taxes, course they will write it off as a business expense. I'm not one of the enthusiastic Coloradians
NOBAMA2012... we elected a "community organizer" in 2008, he FAILED Miserably!
ROMNEY/RYAN..... Believe in America!
This 2012 election : Romney/Ryan vs. Obama/Biden
Clearest example ever of...
...greedy, treasonous, lying, inhumane corporatist plantation masters/privilege monkey inheritors...
vs
...decent, concerned, humane, hardworking, compassionate workers!
Business vs. Labor
straight out!
Hey ssnazistalag
Guess which side you're on!
I guess the folks in CO.really need to do some research on Paul Ryan! For years he's studied the philosophy & beliefs of Ayn Rand.It will give them some real inside to Mr.Ryan & scare you to death.
Obviously, the sick, racist, confederate Republican-T-Party demons in Colorado are incapable of experiencing human emotions...
...such as GRATITUDE...
...When their homes were burning down, who came to console them and pledge support for their rebuilding?
...President Barack Hussein Obama!
Shows us exactly what kinds of inhuman beings these Republican-T-Party confederates are...
I don't like Ryan's politics, but as a Republican running mate, he's a good choice. At least he stood up for something in Congress even though the Ryan plan wasn't good, he presented it and took the heat. That's more than most of those pandering wimps do.
RUINOUS RYAN is on the way!!!. I just can not wait to be living in my favorite WESTINGHOUSE CARTON under a bridge and scrape for food scraps at FOUR SEASONS after THEY have eaten there HIGH END MEALS. This is after the NEXT BIG BURSTING BUBBLE of CAPITAL COMMUNISM BUDGET to better the 1-10% and take from the 90%. What a great COUNTRY! WE ARE FREE at last "TO GET WIPED OUT" of what is left of our PALTRY WEALTH.
Thank you ROMPPY the CLOWN & RUINOUS RYAN what a TEAM !!!!
Oh Romppy and Ruinious Ryan where can I PISS & SH*T? Is your Nicely Green front lawn good enough ? or the Front Gates of residence OK?
General Motors facts for you to check out yourself: The bailout caused them to close 2000 dealerships, which resulted in the loww of 100,000 jobs.
GM stocks are crashing. They are currently about 27.00 per share. The feds would have to get 53.00 per share to break even.
The feds are pushing GM to build Volts. Nobody is buying. They are in a nose dive on the direction of the Feds.