Romney Picks Paul Ryan of Wisconsin

Quote from trefoil:

Intrade: Romney down .04, Obama up .07. So far. I might join just to put in a limit order on shorting me some Romney.
As for Congress going to the Reps, oh man. Half the country still hasn't heard about Ryan or his plan (I just had to explain this one to my wife, for instance). Wait until they find out what it is, and then find out the Republicans are on record as voting for it a couple of years ago.
Republicans are about to learn a very bitter lesson: old people vote. A lot. And most of those "Tea Party" oldsters are on SS and Medicare.
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Quote from CaptainObvious:

I'm not sure how this helps him. I don't think it hurts him, but help him? I'll hold my judgement until I see their plan, assuming they unveil a actual plan at all. Unless the cuts start at the top and work their way down, I don't see the masses lining up behind Romney. Those in the middle and bottom have been shreaded to pieces. Enough is enough. Any idiot can say charge the hill. We need a leader that's willing to lead the troops up the hill and risk taking a hit himself.
Much as I think Obama has been an abject failure, if the repub message is business as usual trickle down, cut up the little guy economics while the big boys skate, I just don't see people making a change for the sake of changing.
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I just posted this in another thread. Honestly, I don't think Mittens made this call. I think Mittens is out of control of his own campaign. His chief of staff in a moment righteous indignation over Romneycare showed us this.

Mittens is a moderate, that is one thing Newt was right about. Pandering to the Tea Party will be seen for what it is.
 
Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Poll: 70% Of Tea Partiers Oppose Cuts To Medicare, Medicaid



Tea Partiers may say the government is too damn big, but when it comes to at least two federal entitlement programs, they sing a wholly different tune.

In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, 70% of registered voters who identify with the Tea Party opposed making cuts to either Medicare or Medicaid — the government-run health programs for the elderly and the poor — to help reduce the nation’s deficit. Meanwhile, only 28% of tea partiers said they’d be willing to cut spending on those two programs.

Tea partiers were not alone in opposing Medicare and Medicaid cuts. An overwhelming 80% of all respondents said they opposed such cuts, with a majority of every demographic measured in the survey lining up against them.

Ninety-two percent of Democrats opposed cutting Medicare and Medicaid, as did 73% of Republicans, and 75% of independents.
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what politicians who pander to the tea party fail to understand is that they are mostly hypocrites. they want spending cuts but just dont touch their benefits. they want the cuts to come from that other guy.
 
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what politicians who pander to the tea party fail to understand is that they are mostly hypocrites. they want spending cuts but just dont touch their benefits. they want the cuts to come from that other guy.
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Let's see...let me check the radar here...

Obama has the Blacks, the Hispanics, the liberal Whites, the homosexuals, the young people, the women, the unions...Hmmm.
Let's see...Mittens has...hmmm...hmmm...hmmm...oh yeah...the old rich white men.
I'm sure Paul Ryan will be able to change all that.---LOL.
 
Ryan was picked because he has no skeletons in his closet? And I do think Ryan is very acceptable to the plutocrats attempting to buy this election. Which leaves the Tea Party angle, that's a gamble I think--they want government all but eliminated, but yeah, they might wake up and consider the Ryan budget's actual effect on their own lives.

As for the Ryan plan's increase to the middle class's taxes, there is an argument supporting the efficacy of that, Yglesias posted it iirc.
 
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