THIS GUY IS NOT COOL!! - Political

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NOT MY WORDS

We learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States.

What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University . He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!

One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.

Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer's, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".

Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.

When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville , Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.

After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington , buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.

Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville . He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.

For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.

No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.

What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico ?

I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all!

Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill? Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over.

[BonS]

. . . on a Vakryrie.

[musclehead]

what's the difference between a politician and a statesman?

a statesman will take stand for the right thing even if it's unpopular.

a politcian will not.

[old2soon]

Makes ya wonder how in the h3ll could you possibly WANT to vote fer a guy who not only believes in doing the right thing-he actually does it!!!  What could the good ole U S of A think about this revoltin development??  RIDE SAFE.

[BF]

At least we know what his past actually is.....unlike someone else that already resides in Washington.   

btw.....I think young Mr Ryan would make a fine prez all on his own.  I would have loved to have seen a Ryan/Rubio ticket.....but I'll settle for the Romney/Ryan ticket.  Anybody but the usurper in office now.   

[bscrive]

We'll take him up here if you guys don't elect him in.   Canada could always use a guy like him.  Not too many of his kind around.   

[texaninsouthfl]

At least we know what his past actually is.....unlike someone else that already resides in Washington.   

btw.....I think young Mr Ryan would make a fine prez all on his own.  I would have loved to have seen a Ryan/Rubio ticket.....but I'll settle for the Romney/Ryan ticket.  Anybody but the usurper in office now.   

I'll pass on Rubio... although he's certainly better than most of the losers we have in DC  and he says a lot of the right things, he seems too much like a traditional politician and in my opinion has already been co-opted by the GOP "leadership." I want a guy who will do the right thing and to hell with what the so called leaders of the party tell him to do and say.... Allen West comes to mind.

[Serk]

Allen West comes to mind.

Can you imagine a debate between Allen West and the Anointed One? That could have been put on pay-per-view and still get more viewers then a regular presidential debate...

[texaninsouthfl]

Allen West comes to mind.

Can you imagine a debate between Allen West and the Anointed One? That could have been put on pay-per-view and still get more viewers then a regular presidential debate...

There aren't too many liberals eager to debate Allen... certainly not the panty wearing, mama's boy running against him at the moment. Allen is intimidated by no one, is supremely well spoken, knows every issue inside out, sideways and backwards, and never has to consult a teleprompter so he can remember what position he takes on a particular issue at a particular moment in time. I like Allen precisely because he's NOT a politician.

[JimC]

A good friend of mine's daughter works in Ryan's office in Janesville.  According to her, what you see is what you get, no B.S., no lies, no hidden agenda.  Makes you wonder how he ever got elected? I can't wait for the vice presidential debate(s) if the press does not put the fix in, he will make Biden look like the buffoon that he is.

Personally I would have rather seen him as the #1 guy on the ticket, but I will also settle for this one. I think he will get his chance at the top spot eventually.

Jim

[salty1]

I can hardly wait to cast my vote for such an uncool guy! 

[Hef]

Great Post  There is a film out now that everyone should see. The film is a documentary titled "2016, Obama's America."  I guarantee you it will provoke thinking. The problem is you won't see it on your local movie list, but if you go to Fandango.com you see where it is playing.

[Paxton]

"NOT MY WORDS..." they never are.

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"NOT MY WORDS..." they never are.

Truth does seem to distress you. Really quite sad.

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