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DUBUQUE, IA – Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan kicked off another battleground state bus tour Monday night here and told voters it is all about family.
“Janna and I are kicking off a bus tour today in Iowa. I live two hours east of here in Janesville. We wanted to start here in Loras because this is where my grandfather went to college,” Ryan said, speaking inside the field house at Loras College.
“It is great to have family with us on the road. It is great to have family with us as we do this bus tour through Iowa,” he continued, noting that his wife’s family is from nearby Clinton, Iowa.
Ryan was joined by his three kids -- Liza, Charlie and Sam -- his wife Janna and her two sisters on the two-day bus trip and even reminisced about his connection with Dubuque.
“On the way over here, I had this song ringing in my mind. A song I grew up hearing all the time in southern Wisconsin: ‘Dubuque, Dubuque, da da da da da da da Dubuque, Dubuque. I know you have that thing in your mind,” the seven-term Wisconsin congressman sang to the roughly 1,000-person crowd inside as well as later to the several hundred people who were kept out of the event by the fire marshal.
Just a week ago, Ryan was in Lima, OH kicking off a three-day bus tour for the GOP ticket. Mitt Romney currently trails President Barack Obama in both key Midwest states.
The new Des Moines Register poll released late Saturday night found Obama leading Romney 49 percent to 45 percent in the battleground state.
During Monday night’s event in the Hawkeye State, Ryan explained to the crowd it’s a “difficult reelection” for Obama and that the president must “win Iowa to win this thing.”
Ryan’s rally on the northeast boarder of Iowa marks his fifth event in the state and is just two days before the first presidential debate.
“We are entering the debate phase, the choice phase of this campaign,” he told the enthusiastic crowd.
Tuesday, Ryan holds three events along the Mississippi River in Iowa to conclude the “Real Recovery” bus tour in the towns of Clinton, Muscatine, and Burlington.
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Hey folks, watch Kostner's film "The Postman". If those dang-nabed Holmists (bad guys with an Ayn Rand attitude) don't remind you of Ryan and Mittwitt and the whole GOP I'll refund your money!
Ryan and "family friendly" make for an oxymoronic sentence.
It's sad to see all these Socialist people pouring their little hearts out. So much whinning, so little brains.
I am a true believer in only one case of Abortion, and thats the one Stanley Ann Dunham should have do.
What's it like, ...being an adult virgin?
Not a bad strategy. Bring the family along, and appear to be human. Not going to happen.
He sounds more like Sarah Palin each day!
The GOP is really getting worse by the day!! lololol and Mittens is at 14.3% chance to win!! This is not helpful since the organization they picked to register voter is committing voter registration fraud worse then anything acorn did . Lets bring that to the top of the NEWS cycle and see if they like it? Well GOP lololololololololol!!! It seems that the one term you wanted was your own!!!
Obama is a nice guy. Mitt and Ryan are mean. They hate a lot of people. Hate is not good.
Who in their right mind would allow their family around a dreadful, un-American creature like Paul Ryan?
Whatever Eddie Munster...you can't put a silk hat on a pig.
Here's my summary of all the posts I've read:
Ryan is a mathamatical genius.......of "fuzzy" math, that is.
Romney's behavior is fuzzy. He seems to suffer from dementia...says one thing and then reverses it.....i.e his "47%" tape. "Oh, I meant to say I cared for the 100%." Remember, both Democrats AND Republicans are part of his 47%. Romney will be looking out for the wealthy, period. I think his preference would be is to become not the president of the US, but the president of the world. We sure don't need someone like this as our president.
NO<NO<NO, K I N G OF THE WORLD
Family friendly=straight,white, middle income.
Where are all of the Obama bumper stickers? In 2008, they were EVERYWHERE. I haven't seen a single one and I live in a very liberal state.
Are his supporters too embarrased to advertise their support? Or are they just to broke to pay 5 bucks for the sticker?
Maybe Obama should have a national program handing them out at taxpayer expense - just like his cellphone program.
I am afraid to put an Obama sticker on my car or house around here. The news has been reporting many cases of vandalism towards Obama supporters.
The losing republicans, are ripping them down, as fast as people can put it up. Childish I know, but what do you expect from republicans, who's losing!
Family Friendly. Now that is an Oxymoron when used in the same sentence as Paul Ryan's name .
Hum.....a wife and her two sisters??? I thought romney was the one who condoned polygamy
One can never be sure which mouth Ryan talks out of when it comes to middle class
families and workers.
One mouth spits out the niceties that he's all for the
middle class and 'supports public education and the social safety net' that’s
so vital and to 'preserve Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid' for
seniors and those that need medical assistance.
The other mouth whispers that
the middle class families and workers will have to have their taxes raised and
lose all kinds of deductions to pay for the radical rich tax cuts and to
destroy Social Security by turning it over to the same financial institutions
that almost destroyed this county and destroy Medicare and Medicaid by giving
seniors a voucher/coupon that says 'you get 5% off your annual medical insurance
premium after you pay the first $15,000.00'.
His mission as a teabagger terrorist is to destroy this country turn it into an
oligarchy ruled by the radical rich and turn the middle class into a nation of slaves.
They say "the devil is in the details". Ryan sure has kept his distance from the devil, when speaking of his economic plans. Even the Fox reporters can't drag the specifics out of Ryan/Romney. There must be a lot of sins to hide in those plans.
TO PAUL RYON DIRECTLY:
Sorry, can't understand what your' trying to say!
Please repeat, your words are garbled!
OOP'S Take your foot out of your mouth! Now try again. What?
OOPS now take Romney's foot out of your mouth! Now let try this again. WOOOOOW, out of your mouth,put on earth, not up your axx!
Ryan is a typical republican A-hole who gives lip service to things like family, education, and military service. Too bad the flip side of things are different. He wants to decimate the middle class to continue bankrolling millionaires (who cares if daddy has a job to support the family), he and most of his minions want to gut education and make parents teach their kids at home, and the biggest kicker of them all, he has never served in the military but wants to continue fighting wars all over the globe. Another fake tough guy willing to send your kid to get his head blown off, but he wasn't willing to do join up when he had a chance. From this point forward people should always take the OPPOSITE of what this party says. From voter fraud (which doesn't exist), to their hatred of gays/lesbians (but getting caught sucking d*ck in bathroom stalls), to anything FOXNEWS says, its all about the grand delivery of a good lie. And if I'm correct, didn't Michelle Bachman win Iowa during the primaries? That right there shows how relevant Iowa still is, that and the fact that 92% of the state is lilly-white and doesn't look like America in this century (maybe way back in the 50"s).
All your Liberal whining on this post is miniscule compared to what your liar in chif is doing.
"U.S. diplomats in Libya repeatedly asked the Obama administration for more security in Benghazi in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate but were "denied these resources," two congressional lawmakers said.
They detailed a string of attacks and other security incidents in Benghazi starting in April, and asked the State Department what measures it took to address the threat. They claimed officials have told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee of "repeated requests" for additional security.
"Based on information provided to the committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador's life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012," they wrote. "In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington."
Viote him out in 34 days!
Really? Libya cost us 4 lives and it wasn't because of an intelligence mistake, it was a planned attack on the soil of the host country. 9/11 was a MAJOR f*ckup that happened on OUR soil and cost the lives of over 3000 people. You conservative dipsh*ts have major problems with facing the truth because you are too busy pounding your chest like monkeys to understand that using your brain sometimes is actually better. Obama will not be going anywhere in 34 days! If you think we are going to vote for that pussy Mitt Romney to sweep into office and let the terrorist raise there level of activity, you are obviously out of your mind! Now leave the trailer, go back outside in the gravel yard, sit in your lawn chair and have another beer.
As I have said, you could have a platoon there it won't prevent an RPG you just get more casualties. Stop the blame game your hateraid is getting warm.
Angelo - You can go back 11 years to 9/11 or back to the civil war for that matter.
But try to drag yourself into the present, and explain why Obanma denied a security team in Benghazi, and then lied about it being a terrorist attack.
An answer to these questions just might be important to know prior to a Presidential election.
Vote him out in 34 days!
Franklin - You know nothing of the attack, or what might have been prevented.
The ambassador asked for help, it was denied by the Obama administration, and then Obama tried to cover it up by lying. Do you think that's Presidential?
But no surprise. In four years he's never taken responsibility for anything negative that has happened during his reign, but he sure doesn't miss an opportunity to take credit for anything positive that happens to occur, whether he had anything to do with it or not.
But that's ok, In 34 days you can vote BO out, and America will be better for it.
The more you get to know the Republican ticket the more it STINKS........Gov. Mitt Romney otherwise called Mr. 47%..............AND running MATE.....Rep. Paul lying Ryan otherwise co-sponsored "LEGITIMATE RAPE" law in Congress with Rep. TODD AKIN a.k.a. Mr. Illegitimate....
The crying,lying Ryan should be charged for abuse of seniors for the way he is using his mother on his election trips in hope he will get some sympathy or votes. He ought to be Charged for abuse of the elderly. In the criminal view of this action it has a nastier street term for the way he is using HIS MOTHER as bait to SOLICIT for him. Doesn't sound to Catholic to me.
.... all i can say about ryan ... Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (sorry to ryan's mom, but your son is a jerk) .... i'm a senior ........
OBAMA 2012
How ironic. This buffoon is kicking off a family tour when his policies will all but destroy middle class and low income families. At least those policies he's willing to explain instead of those he wants us to trust him about until after he's elected.
I'd like him to answer how eliminating family planning helps families. Also, how opposing equal pay for equal work for women helps families. Also, how cutting funding for education helps families. Also, how eliminating food assistance programs for disadvantaged children helps families. Also, how eliminating unemployment assistance helps families.
Those questions don't even include the ones about medicare, social security and tax breaks for the rich and tax increases for the middle class. Yep, this guys a real family man.
HeyKannin, you're proud of this guy who doesn't have time to explain it right now it is very complicated math??
SailorGirl, would that include "legitamate" rape?