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   dtroutma said, 7 months ago

   Ryan is not stupid, but he was armed with a lot of malarky, and still couldn’t come up with specifics, when asked repeatedly. When your only weapon is rhetoric, you’re unarmed.
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   Radish said, 7 months ago

   A lot of women are angry at Ryans stand on women’s health issues. The American Taliban want to take away a women’s right to decide.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

   @dtroutma

   “Ryan is not stupid,”
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   Disagree.
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   I’m willing to say he’s about average. But About Average is pretty stupid.
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   I’ll give him an out that Romney clamped down on specifics. But I do so grudgingly.
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   He’s absolutely NOT a towering intellect, except that he is one in the Republican Party. And that tells you more about the Republican Party than it does his relative intellect in the wider world we have here on Planet Earth!
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

   @Radish

   “A lot of women are angry at Ryans stand on women’s health issues.”
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   Yeah, but keep in mind that a lot of women are FERVENT pro Lifers.
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   That’s why the Republicans pretend to be pro-life so that they can capture that sub demographic.
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   That’s why Abortion will never be illegal in the USA. Because then there will be no issue to keep those women Republican.
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   Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

   @Dredpiraterobt$

   I wonder, having seen Romney change positions over the last two weeks, if Ryan would have accepted Romney’s invitation to be vp. The Romney running against Perry, Newt, Cain, Santorum, Huntsman(I liked Huntsman) is not the Romney who debated Obama. Ryan is having to deny his own positions in order to advance his running mate and I can’t imagine he appreciates the changes made.
   I agree with dtroutma that Ryan isn’t stupid, especially when compared to some of the other minds in his party, but I do believe he has willingly compromised his principles for his party’s candidate and in hopes of being well positioned for 2020 if not 2016. I noticed he has continued his run for office in Wisconsin. Nice to have a back up position.
   C.
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   fritzoid said, 7 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   “Sure—that is so much more important than the economy.”
   

   
   You’re right, social issues are far more important in the long run than the economy. The economy will fluctuate, and can be jiggered with short-term fixes one way or another. But legislation on social issues has a much longer lifespan. Why do you think the Republicans run on economic issues but spend all of their time in office trying to roll back social policies?
   

   
   That’s the main reason I’ve never voted for a Republican, and probably never will.
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   Radish said, 7 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Then why is it a republican issue?
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   braindead08 said, 7 months ago

   @Respectful Troll

   ‘but I do believe he has willingly compromised his principles for his party’s candidate ’
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   What principles?
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   Ryan went to school on Federal money, but wants to eliminate it for anyone else.
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   Ryan claims to be fiscally conservative, but voted for two wars, Medicare Part D, and a Bush stimulus without paying for _any_of them.
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   He voted for the sequestration and then claimed he didn’t and says it was all the Democrats’ idea.
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   He begged for stimulus money for his district ‘to create and save jobs’, but says that ‘Government can’t create jobs’.
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   He claimed that the plant that shut down in his district in 2008 was because of Obama’s policies.
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   He won’t name any loopholes to be closed. In one interview, he says he hasn’t run the numbers. In another, he says there’s no time. In the debates, he says six studies have shown that the math is correct.
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   Let me know when you find any of his principles he has compromised for Willard. He has none that he sticks to, in any case.
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   Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

   @braindead08

   Let me rephrase then. His STATED and published principles.
   C.
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    Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

    BS Biden has spoken.
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    Larhof52 said, 7 months ago

    Proverbs 29:9 English Standard Version (©2001)
    If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
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    walruscarver2000 said, 7 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    “Why are the Dems still blaming Bush?” Just as a hunch how does “BECAUSE HE DID IT!” sound to you?
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    Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

    @Larhof52

    Winston Churchill- A fanatic can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject
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    meetinthemiddle said, 7 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    Ryan’s already hip to the game… After his first budget proposal – a remarkably honest document about its agenda by political standards – went up in flames, he removed all the specifics from the 2nd so that the CBO couldn’t score it. And that was before he signed on as VP.
    
    
    I’m sure Ryan understands Romney had to do yet another 180 and tack back to the middle to have a shot at winning.
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    Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, 7 months ago

    Why can’t you Republicans get over that Biden won the debate? All I heard from Ryan was a lot of hot air than anything.
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