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Great article: How Ryan hurts Romney -- While the right thinks the V.P. nominee is the star of the ticket, he's hurting his running mate in swing states By Joan Walsh:
Its an article of faith on the right that Mitt Romney may be destroying Paul Ryans national career, by muzzling him and keeping his far-right stands on Medicare, Social Security, federal spending and abortion secret from voters. Iowa GOP party chairman Craig Robinson shared his colorful appraisal with the New York Times Tuesday, I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, hell probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him.
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But its just as likely that Ryan is bringing down Romneys presidential chances, too. In three key swing states, Ohio, Virginia and Florida, a new poll finds that voters overwhelmingly oppose Ryans plan to voucherize Medicare, and instead favor President Obamas approach to the program and trust him to protect it. And the Catholic Wisconsin resident isnt helping with Catholics or folks from Wisconsin Obamas taken a lead with both groups.
But its in older swing states that Ryan may be hurting, not merely not helping, Romney. A Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that Obama has a 17-point edge over Romney with all voters on who will best handle Medicare, his biggest advantage all year. Ohio voters favor Obamas approach to Medicare by 19 points, Florida by 15 and Virginia by 13. Voters who call Medicare extremely important back Obama 59 percent to 36 percent, while those who say its less important favor Romney, 54 percent to 36 percent. (An earlier New York Times poll found similar results in Wisconsin.)
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Neither will Ryan, even if he's turned out. Brace yourself for scary sound bits from him for the next fours years. Bank on it.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)So, no - I don't think anyone will be talking about Ryan after the election - except perhaps the folks over at FoxNews every now and again.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Yeah,...but Ryan can't wink for shit...
Cha
(297,655 posts)John Boehner, too. Have a productive Dem as Speaker of the House!
Zygoat
(27 posts)Zambero
(8,965 posts)Nice work Mittens!
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)1) This should be seen as a thorough repudiation of the Ryan budget and the philosophies it represents. Whenever the teabaggers try to bring any of that up, Obama should take the position, "The American people already spoken on that. None of that is up for discussion in any form. Elections have consequences."
2) Hopefully even if he isn't completely gone from the scene, hopefully this is the last we have to hear about his excellent P90X workouts.
Did I mention he's very good looking?
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tavalon
(27,985 posts)I think he's quite ugly.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)to say one good thing about mitt, we've honestly got something to name!!
AnneD
(15,774 posts)I think Ryan is very capable of destroying his career without any help from Romney.
Texas Lawyer
(350 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)deserving person - either way.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)As soon as the national press dug any farther into who he is and what he stands for than "he's the Republican budget guy" he was going to be up shit creek.
Texas Lawyer
(350 posts)oldbanjo
(690 posts)political offices the fact that he idealizes Ayn Rand is bad enough but while your running with someone as their VP you shouldn't be making smart comments about them in private. Neither one of these lowlifes would be good for this Country.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)The general populace has no stomach for the garbage ryan is selling and thanks to Romney his positions have been brought out for all to see. Even if they arent getting all of it they are getting enough to realize they dont want his kind of crazy running the show.
Texas Lawyer
(350 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Ryan was only known by political junkies. Now everyone sees him and wonders how he ever got elected in the first place.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)I'm not satisfied yet.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)He did not have to take the positions he took to put himself in the spotlight, and he did not have to say yes when asked by Romney to run. I do believe that many Republicans assumed if Ryan were on the ticket, it would propel Mitt into the White House. How little did they know the wholesale rejection of Ryan and his ultra-right wing policies by this country would probably put Mitt himself into retirement. Not that he Mitt was doing okay on his own in this regard, but the Ryan selection cemented Mitt's fate.
Sam