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Full Remarks: Paul Ryan Introduced as Mitt Romney’s Running Mate

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.

In the campaign to come, Republicans will present economic solutions “that are bold, specific and achievable,” Romney said as he presented his political partner to cheering supporters. “We offer our commitment to create 12 million new jobs and bring better take home pay to middle class families.”

The two men basked in the cheers of supporters in the ticket’s made-for-television debut. “I did not make a mistake with this guy,” Romney exulted.

“I am deeply excited and honored to join you as your running mate,” Ryan said in his first words at the podium.” He said that together, “we will restore the greatness of this country.”

“Regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem, and Mitt Romney is the solution” to an economy that has yet to make a strong recovery from the worst recession in decades, he said.

The ticket made its debut at a naval museum in Norfolk, Va., the initial stop of a bus tour through four battleground states in as many days. The USS Wisconsin, berthed at the museum, was their bunting-draped backdrop.

While word of Ryan’s selection leaked late Friday night, and was posted by the campaign to its phone app before the speeches, Obama’s campaign withheld its reaction until the Republicans had spoken.

“The architect of the radical Republican House budget, Ryan, like Romney, proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, and deep cuts in education from Head Start to college aid,” Jim Messina, the president’s campaign manager, said in a written statement.

“His plan would also end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors,” he said.

Ryan’s selection – as well as Romney’s own nomination – will be ratified by delegates to the Republican National Convention that begins on Aug. 27 in Tampa, Fla.

Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will be nominated for a second term at the Democratic convention the following week.

One campaign official said Romney had settled on Ryan as his pick on Aug. 1, more than a week ago, and informed Beth Myers, the longtime aide who had shepherded the secretive process that led to the selection. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details.

In making his pick, Romney bypassed other potential running mates, including Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Officials said he had called all four to notify them of his decision.

At 42, Ryan is a generation younger than the 65-year-old Romney.

His conservative credentials are highly regarded by fellow Republican House members, while numerous polls found that Romney‘s own were suspect among the party’s core supporters during the primaries of winter and spring.

Watch more of the candidates’ speeches, below:

 

A seven-term congressman, Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee, and primary author of conservative tax and spending blueprints that the tea party-infused Republican majority approved over vociferous Democratic opposition in 2011 and again in 2012.

It envisions transforming Medicare into a program in which future seniors would receive government checks that they could use to purchase health insurance. Under the current program, the government directly pays doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.

Ryan and other supporters say the change is needed to prevent the program from financial calamity. Critics argue it would impose ever-increasing costs on seniors.

Other elements of the budget plan would cut projected spending for Medicaid, which provides health care for the poor, as well as food stamps, student loans and other social programs that Obama and Democrats have pledged to defend.

In all, it projected spending cuts of $5.3 trillion over a decade, and cut future projected deficits substantially.

It also envisions a far reaching overhaul of the tax code of the sort Romney has promised.

Romney and Ryan appeared unusually comfortable with each other when they campaigned together earlier in the year. The former governor eagerly shared the microphone with the younger man and they shared hamburgers at a fast food restaurant.

In making an endorsement before his state’s primary last spring, Ryan said, “I picked who I think is going to be the next president of the United States – I picked Mitt Romney. … The moment is here. The country can be saved. It is not too late to get America back on the right track. … It is not too late to save the American idea.”

Romney was the subject of an April Fools prank in which Ryan played a role. Romney showed up at a supposed campaign event where he heard Ryan calling him “the next president of the United States” – only to find the room nearly empty.

In recent days, conservative pundits have been urging Romney to choose Ryan in large part because of his authorship of a House-backed budget plan that seeks to curb overall spending on benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps.

Republican National Committee finance chairman Ron Weiser of Michigan, said Friday night that Ryan’s selection would help Romney win Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes in the fall. The state typically supports Democrats in presidential contests, and Obama won it handily four years ago.

Ryan has worked in Washington for much of his adult life, a contrast to Romney, who frequently emphasizes his experience in business.

The congressman worked as an aide in Congress, and also was a speechwriter for Jack Kemp, who years earlier had been one of the driving forces behind across-the-board tax cuts that were at the heart of Ronald Reagan’s winning presidential campaign in 1980.

Ryan is also well-known for his fiendish physical fitness workouts.

His congressional district in southeast Wisconsin has something of a bipartisan voting record. Obama took 54 percent of the vote there in 2008, while the congressman received 64 percent in winning re-election.

Outside Ryan’s home in Janesville, Wis., on Friday night, there was nothing to suggest that the residence belonged to a vice presidential candidate. An Associated Press reporter who knocked just before midnight got no answer. There was a light on in a first-floor room of the two-story brick home atop a hill.

Earlier this week, a Ryan adviser said the congressman, his wife and their three children were preparing for a weeklong Colorado vacation.

Most of Romney’s staff learned of the planned announcement during a 10 p.m. EDT conference call Friday about an hour before the campaign issued a statement. The identity of Romney’s pick was not disclosed during the call. The campaign had promised that first news of the selection would be delivered via a phone app.

Earlier in the day, Romney’s campaign briefed reporters on the bus tour without mention of the impending vice presidential announcement.

The tour will take Romney through North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Ohio. All are battlegrounds where Obama won in 2008. They hold 75 electoral votes combined, of the 270 needed to win the election.

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  • KeithOlberdink
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:48am

    Doin’ the bull dance. Feelin the flow… Workin’ it… Workin it…

    R&R 2012

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  • davrob1
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:45am

    I like Ryan, but just so everyone is clear – a true Tea Party Patriot doesn’t vote for TARP, the bailouts, the Patriot Act or the NDAA (which removes due process). The pick could have been worse and I like said I like the guy – but he will be easier to demonize by the Left than Rubio.

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:52am

      I like Ryan a great deal and think he is a great pick, sadly the House will miss him. He is perfect for a presidential candidate in a failing economy. Here is the best of Paul Ryan, a must see: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/aug/best_of_ryan.html

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    • klammey
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:13am

      Ryan’s good but Rubio would have been better and West would have been even better than Rubio. I’ve never liked Romney but, AGAIN, I’ll have a VP to vote for. I swear, I would vote for OJ Simpson before I’d vote for Obama! At least, Ryan isn’t scared of Obama and his thug buddies.

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    • dimitrisokolov
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:24pm

      Obama is a disaster. But Romney & Ryan would vote for TARP, The Patriot Act, NDAA, bombing Iran, drone strikes, torture….I don’t see how they are any better than Obama. Romneycare is just as much of a disaster as Obamacare. There’s really no difference between Romney & Obama. In November all the slaves get to do is pick a new master. That’s it.

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    • rc30
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:27pm

      Well at least now I won’t have to grind my teeth when voting now. Am happy to vote for Paul Ryan. Just don’t like Mitt that much to much like a McCain. But now I have more hope for my and kids future.

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    • Ohio Guy
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:10pm

      I guess it is baby steps time. Romney is a baby step away from the lefty in office, Ryan is a baby step away from left leaning Romney, at least it is heading in the right direction. Where the real reform of the system will come from is the House and Senate races. It is vital that Constitutional conservatives get elected in large numbers to join the ones elected in 2010. If the House is pressing a Romney WH to govern conservatively then reform will go from bumbling toddler to a even paced jogger. If you are like me and prefer an Olympic sprinter type reform I guess we keep waiting.

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:40pm

      “the Patriot Act or the NDAA (which removes due process)”

      Incorrect again, but I don’t expect accuracy with the Paulestinians.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:54pm

      @GOODSTUFF Oh Really? And how does the NDAA not remove due process? I eagerly await your relpy..
      This is what Romney and company supported.. Ron Paul presented a bill to appeal it and a Federal Judge declared it unConstitutional..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXyLrTRXso&feature=related

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:29pm

      @Goodstuff,

      While you’re at it, explain why Kucinich had to introduce a bill (yes, Kucinich is a nutjob) to make it illegal for the government to conduct extrajudicial killings of Americans if that was already illegal? Or was it? (NDAA)

      For Pete’s sake, why is it that everyone who refuses to read a little uses Ron Paul as an excuse to go through life stupid?

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:31pm

      @DAVROB
      he will be easier to demonize by the Left than Rubio.
      —–
      Unfortunately, you’re right. Medicare, Medicare, Medicare. That’s all we will hear from liberals for the next three months. If Paul was willing to take the heat, WHY didn’t he stand up as his own man and run for president?

      Romney needed a charismatic politician as a running mate, and that was Rubio. I think Romney was privately told Rubio would definitely say no.

      I hope to G Ryan seeks reelection for his Congressional seat, in case Barack cheats his way to a second term.

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    • ConstitunalAmerican
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:00pm

      I’m not a fan of Ryan either. Why is it that when it comes to cuts/vouchers these “politicians” NEVER CUT their own benefits and congress high-tailed themselves out of work for a nice leisurely vacation?? Ryan will cause Romney to lose the election. Or was that the plan?

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:14pm

      Tea Party is divided. The Liberals took it over and brainwashed all the fox listening idiots.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:18pm

      You got it right!

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:01am

      …welcome to the losing ticket mr. ryan…no real conservative principles on display here…

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    • dianna9490
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 8:23am

      I’m FIRED UP! – Finally our country can STOP THE OVERSPENDING OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT! Somebody that can actually add; someone that actally has a brain – unlike Harry Reid and Pelosi – Come on AMERICA STAND FOR SOMETHING OR YOU WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING like the taking of personal property in Pelosi’s state where she and Reid are scamming homeowners and plan on taking their properties by iminent domain so they can get richer!

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  • tess q
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:44am

    what a contrast, Romney and Ryan two men that have leadership qualities and ideas compared to thier opponets who don’t. this will be interesting.

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:12am

      What a novel idea…. choosing a running mate who is intelligent….

      What a contrast to Vice President “Mr. Magoo” Biden !!!!

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:04pm

      With a budget to go. I am very happy with his pick. I want Marco Rubio to stay here in Florida.

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    • Hiswill
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:14pm

      Now that Romney picked Ryan for VP, Obama will have to switch out Biden for Hillary or he knows he won’t have a chance to win.
      GO RYAN and ROMNEY!!!
      NOBAMA 2012

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:40pm

      @hiswill

      I would be shocked if Obama keeps Biden all the way to November

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

      “Obama will have to switch out Biden for Hillary”

      I used to think that as well, but it’s getting pretty late in the game…2 1/2 months away. All the yard signs and bumper stickers and rally placards with Biden’s name have already been printed. Be expensive to switch em all out now.

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:15pm

      Wow what is in the koolaid? Do you people honestly think this is good? Their is no way you are real human beings writing on these comments. Romney is the biggest fraud ever. He doesn’t represent true patriots. Your all a bunch of sell outs being fooled by the communists. Obama in the back ground laughing at ya’ll on how stupid you are.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:41am

    We’ve got a real line up for you tonight folks….in this corner we have NoDramaObama with his sidekick the greyhaired grandfatherly SnarkyJoeLunchpaleBiden. And in the other corner we have two White guys from Whocaresville, Anywhere USA. The crowds are really wound up tight over this head to head match up folks! Step right up and place your bets folks, put your money where your mouth is and open yur wallets for these fat cats to feed on.

    This illusion of real choice is so appealing to some that they just never can see the reality of it all. There is no choice…its a feel good for ourside pick only and in the end these same characters keep moving the progressive agenda forward one bite at a time with just a different flair and style. Don’t buy into it! Support Tea Party candidates for office who can tie these clowns hands good and tight…force smaller government down their big spending throats. Thats the real choice out there today!

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:02am

      who you trying 2 s–t..with your haarvaard talk…you most likely didn’t finish high school..hahhhahahahahahahhahaaaaha

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:12am

      You need to go live in another country like North Korea…and take Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve with you……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:12am

      ChiefGeorge, sometimes..well most of the time, I’d love to knock the stupid out of you, it would be an all day affair though.

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    • resme
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:15am

      @chief, Nice post, So true. We have no choice, Only the illusion of choice. Joey quit being a douchebag.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:35am

      RESME, Don’t forget Bob_Fake_Oathkeeper.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:59am

      Ironic that Bob the Oathkeeper is supporting candidates that are supporters of Patriot Act and NDAA and the cherry on top is that he wants to get physical with those who have the gaul to commit a thoughtcrime.

      You should send your oathkeeper card back.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:10pm

      LEFT COAST. Let’s not forget you claiming to be a “Nam Vet there buddy, lol. Remember the difference between being a ‘Nam “era” Vet and an actual ‘Nam Combat Vet prior to the ’73 pull-out, or transporting the last remnants of our folks (civilian and embassy) home after Saigon in April ‘75 if you were involved in that.

      Other than that… you were just swabbin’ the decks somewhere in port eh??

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Time_2, You are an idiot, you know that? If I posted something that made you think what you do, then as Steve Martin would say: Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse Meeeeeeeee! I have never intentionally tried to make anyone believe that I was a combat veteran. I have posted in the past that I was a Vietnam Era Veteran and enlisted in ‘75, and if I forgot the Era in one post, then, so what. You are so anti veteran it makes me sick. You espouse being a combat veteran, and I do not believe that at all or you would not have so much disdain for veterans of any era. You are a true POS and you can kiss my @ss.
      I am however an Oathkeeper, and Bob just never has sounded like one.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

      Regarding Time 2 End,

      Anybody that would take solace from a post of a guy who supports:

      1. Continual budget deficits
      2. NDAA
      3. Patriot Act
      4. Gun Control
      5. Government Run Healthcare
      6. TSA Warrantless spying on Americans
      7. TARP, Bailouts, and Stimulus

      Really should have their head examined. Time rolls over here like he‘s mister conservative but if you look at what he supports he’s just another liberal troll from HuffPo or somewhere. True conservatives don’t support those things.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:52pm

      LEFT COAST. You and Paul are two birds of a feather. You led a poster to believe you were a ‘Nam Vet as Ron Paul leads people to believe HE is a ’Nam Vet (while leaving out the rather important details). Ron Paul has also led people to believe he was a “Flight Surgeon” while leaving out the rather importants facts that he never actually performed the role of “Flight Surgeon.”

      If you record embellishing Vets for Paul are going to inject your Service record into your comments… you best not leave the rather important facts out eh?

      You have no idea of what I do for Vets as opposed to the whiney (almost Kerry and Murtha) Vets I read and have come in conatct with who endorse Ron Paul.

      It’s embarrassing for me to call you Paul Vets… fellow Vets… when all you do is try and diminish the Service of honest Americans who fought and died for their country by labeling them as fighters in “illegal wars” and all that means while trying to pass off that de-bunked BS about Paul’s Military donations. You Paul supporting Vets are an embarrasment, just like the Kerry supporting Vets. And I can say that without hesitation nor guilty conscience.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:00pm

      @Time,

      Dude, go back to the VA and get your meds. The war is over. Let it go. It’s vets like you that give the rest of us a bad name. You get up every day an put on your ruck and fight the war again. Let it go. You know who some of the greatest vets I’ve ever met were? They were the ones who don’t praddle on about their service all the time. You do your time and then you live your life. The greatest gift you can give your fallen buddies is to go and prosper. Carrying around bitterness, resentment and judging other people’s service records is just nonsense. You do your time and then you move on.

      Real heroes don’t have to tell everyone what kind of hero they were. And for the record, I wasn’t a hero. I had a minor role in a war that was a total cakewalk “Desert Storm”. So if you want to talk about who killed more gooks you probably win. That isn’t really the point though now is it?

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Time_2, unlike you, I have never disparaged any Veteran. You are a disgrace to your country, you are a liar, you are probably a thief. I am going to be seeing one of my old friends from the Navy, a man who is a decorated Nam Vet (Army, before he transferred to the Navy) and I will get some info from his experience from combat in Vietnam. Now, put you money where your mouth is. What company were you in? Where did you see combat. what did you experience? I will ask my friend to give me some questions to ask you and then you can be exposed for the fake you really are. I bet you will not be game for that, since you are in fact a lying POS and a hater of Veterans.
      You say that Paul and his supporters are anti-veteran? That is why Paul gets more donations from the military than any other candidate and all the candidates that were in the primary combined. That alone shows your I.Q. to be way below average.
      Who funds Ron Paul: 48 percent from small individual contributions, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheep, IBM.
      Who funds Mitt Romney: 10 percent from small individual contributions, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JP Morgan Chase.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:33pm

      ROTHBARD. Nice try, but no kewpie doll OR tchotchke for you ‘BARD. For years now, Paul acolytes have been posing on the internet as real Vets to attempt make a point for Ron Paul by showing their undying Military support for him. Ron Paul acolytes would do just about anything to make this guy look like not only America’s savior, but the Military’s as well. Horse dookey and embellishment. Paul is undeserving of any clear-thinking Military Service member’s endorsement… present and past.

      It’s truly amazing and unbelivable to me that he has any. But I also look at the comments here from anyone who say’s they have been connected to the Military in any way shape or form an immediately become suspect but what I see written. I see BS along with many who were probably tossed out with having problems with authority and the discipline it takes to be America’s finest, REMF‘s who have an axe to grind and just the plain ol’ disgruntled and disloyal. That’s what I read.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:44pm

      it does seem Time2 has lost his decency a long time ago. No soul. No humanity

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Time_2, Yeah, I didn’t think so. You are a liar and a thief in my opinion. Your words mean nothing here to true Veterans. You also stated that you are a delegate going to Tampa in another post? Doubt it. You just spread lies like there is no tomorrow. Nobody here really takes you seriously. But if you are in Tampa, watch the number of Active Duty Military and Veterans for Ron Paul that will be marching on the convention center.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:04pm

      LEFT COAST. Lmao… all you have to do is ask your “buddy” where Camp Bearcat was, mention I was a straight leg 11B (at that time, and at the beginning of my “voluntary” career), “earned” a CIB, which I proudly wore… especially when I reenlisted, switched MOS’s and became a Combat Engineer. A 12B is kinda’ like a Seabee to you Squids, lol… and I‘m sure he’ll figure out the rest eh?

      Oh, LEFT COAST. Tell any of your Navy buds that this Army Retiree also “earned” himself a “crossing of the line” certificate along with the “Shell Back” initiation aboard the U.S.S. Trenton during a second time crossing of the line. Lot’s of Joint Training excercises back in the day with us Engineers and you Squids (I write fondly). Lots of good times. FTN LEFT COAST…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:16pm

      LEFT COAST. See you in Tampa. We have something in store for you Paul insurgents. Ssshhhh. I will be there with DD-214 in hand. I won’t be hard to find… believe it. Bringing your wife? I want to meet the 3rd Party who has been giving my posts clinical evaluation all this time? I’ll buy you two dinner at the place of your choice and it better NOT be sushi or some liberal crap like that! Ha! I’m a meat and potatos kind of guy.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:21pm

      LEFT COAST. If you support Ron Paul and are a Vet… you embarrass yourself, you cheapen your Service to our nation and you insult ALL Vets past and present (not to mention your country as a whole) whether you choose to admit it or not.

      THAT is the bottom line…

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:40pm

      Time_2, My post above was premature, sorry. So, were you one that was dressed up for the beauty pageant? LOL. I am a Golden Shellback. I will be seeing my friend next week and I will forward this and have him ask you some questions.

      One thing that bugs me Time, is your perpetuation of having to bash any branch of the service, FTN? I would not say that about the Army, Still shows that you have disdain for the military even though you say you are a combat veteran with a Combat Infantryman Badge. I still have my doubts.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

      Kiss my what Time_2?

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Time_2, One other thing, I am proud of my wife and her accomplishments, I am sorry that you are not proud of yours, but you are probably divorced from cheating on her. That is the kind of character I suspect you have.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:19pm

      LEFT COAST, I wrote “FTN” just to see if you knew what it mean’t. I actually read that on the bottom of one of the those canvas bunks we had to sleep in while “stowed away” on board the U.S.S. Trenton. I also read it emblazened all over other parts of the ship. Someone wasn’t on graffiti duty I guess while they were on fire watch (I would have made that an additional duty for sure)…

      BUT we DID have FTA in the Army. .. “Fun, travel AND adventure… lol.

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    • HeartHooves
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:22pm

      I wasn’t crazy about Romney to begin with, but the more I have learned about the man and his character, as well as his resume, I do believe that he has the skills that this country desperately needs at this time. I believe that he picked an extremely compitent and compatible VP, unlike Obama who picked a clown for his “royal court”.
      That being said, it is the HOUSE and the SENATE that is the KEY this election! We need to work to get the conservative candidates elected. If we get them in, I believe that Romney and Ryan will LISTEN to what WE THE PEOPLE want. Unlike Obama who is only out to further his ideology, no matter how many people he hurts.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:40pm

      LEFT COAST. I am not denegrating what you say your “better half‘ does for a living or that she’s even your wife. What I AM making a point of is the fact that you feel you need to bring someone into these conversations (a 3rd Party) to make a point, evaluation or to ask a question. If someone wants to know about me… tell them to join The Blaze and become a poster. If all you have is what someone else has to say or wants to know to bolster whatever it is you need to bolster… then I read BS.

      And no… the “Pageant” was reserved for the lower EM… but I did my part for God, country and Neptune. Oh, and the “grog”… was nasty, but I’ve drank worse. And what’s with you guys trying to pass off rabbit as chicken? And the Marines shaking down everyone in the head? We had to knock a few “Jarheads” heads around just trying to take a freakin’ leak…

      I was also assigned to a Combat Engineer unit in Panama where we performed a number of Joint Training excercises with the Navy out of Rodman Naval Base.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Dear Fellow Oathkeeper!

      This is a written format so why don’t you bring it instead of mouthing off threats about what you want to physically do to me. Wake fellow Oathkeeper! Wake up fellow veteran and stop buying into ourside against their side when nothing changes. If I was in the same mindset as you, I would be doing handstands and cartwheels for this pick! Truth is, nothing will come of it anyways because Dear Leader has other plans and they do not include us.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:52pm

      After reading through some of the comments below, I can see why we will not win in Nov! We are too busy fighting each other to see the bigger picture. FTN? I haven’t seen that one since the 80s. With all I’ve said about this pick, I will vote for Romney and of course for Ryan. Anything else is a sure victory for Dear Leader who is going to win anyways by hook of by crook.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:57pm

      Time_to_be_A_disinfo_TROLL

      The loving government that you worship classifies returning vets AS TERRORIST. How do you feel about the government drug dealing being exposed in fast and furious? How do you feel about being suckered into a war in Iraq. How do you feel about the American government openly supporting AL QUEDA IN SYRIA? I should say AL CIA DA. How do you feel about being used as a pawn your whole life with your(FAKE) “Patriotism” being USED and played on to support the military industerial complex that wants more and more wars. To anyone who is enlightened, you are the biggest fool of all.

      http://americaswatchtower.com/2009/04/14/homeland-security-classifies-returning-us-veterans-as-potential-terrorist-threat/

      Maybe you saw the paper the Army funded with a potntial WAR with a tea party group? When in the HELL will you grow up and see whats going on? You stupid old man.

      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/16/napolitano-stands-rightwing-extremism/?page=all

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    • Wilma
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:11pm

      I agree, ChiefGeorge. But what is done is done. Time to focus on the Senate.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:13pm

      Showing true colors?

      Yea! If I had my pick to run this country it would be TWO White guys, One former Navy MAN and one former Marine MAN. Don’t care if they were fomrer officers or not, but I would prefer that they were not…too PC. Listen…..Do you think that combo would get elected? Hell NO! So what you have to do is come at your opposition with the same strategy he used to get elected in the first place. The republican playbook does not work anymore, this country has changed drastically and we had better get used to the idea of this fact. Stop ranting against me and start ranting against the politcians playing the same ole games that no longer win elections.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Bob R whatever!

      You probably could not even hoist your fat rear end off the couch long enough to even stand toe to toe with me without first having to run to the fridge to swig down another whatever has warped your mind! From 6pm to 10pm last night I was riding my KLR650 Dualsport in the rugged mountains…alone! You could not even keep up with this old salt. So sit back and figure out what kind of bildge water your going to spew forth next. Actually read the comments and don’t jump to conclusions before your speak next time, something apparently you did not learn in the Corps.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:56pm

      @TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 – I am sooo scared. I got a 200 others that could knock you out in 5 seconds trained Special Forces so bring it. Will be waiting you coward.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:01pm

      WAKEUP (GO BACK TO SLEEP). Let’s seeeee, so many questions, so little time.

      How about this… LMAO!!

      FNG’s…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:17pm

      CROOKS. Same response to you that I gave WAKEUP/GOBACKTOSLEEP…

      LMAO! But I’ll throw in an LOL too… just for good measure…

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:46pm

      Time_To_Be_A_Disinfo_TROLL

      Face it, its all coming undone. You thought you were on the right side. You thought the neocons and the Bill Krystals of the world were like you, they arent. They hate vets, Hennery Kissenger called you useless eaters and animals to be used as pawns, is that what you are? I dont think so. I think you love your country. I think you thought you were fighting for a “nobel” cause. You wernt. We know whats really going on, we are putting the info out there and you still wont believe it. But when it all hits the fan and we have UN blue hats and NorthCom kicking in doors and taking our guns, you will rue the day you spewed your hate for Paul. You deserve it. We deserve it. We will pay for our sin, we will pay for sitting by idle like and letting our country be hijacked by bankers. You war mongers who refused to see what was being done in our countrys name will be the most to blame. I pitty you, just as I pay for you. According to the government YOU are a terrorist. Its coming down like a ton of bricks, you either get on the right side, or you be a victim.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:03pm

      @@TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 – I don’t care if your a veteran because every one with me are going to be veterans, Special forces, Marines, Navy. Go ahead show me your face. I would love to see you there. I bet a 100 bucks We have you running home. And I don’t care if your in the closet Ron Paul Supporter. Your a coward and you talk like your the biggest tough guy on he internet.Just tell me what shirt your wearing and will go from there. Coward

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:18pm

      What line up? A crap line up. Progressive Liberal Romney & Fake Conservative Ryan. What a GREAT pick you got their sell outs. Guess what? The black vote stays with Obama.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 8:34pm

      CROOKS. Awwwww… ain’t that cute. I got threatened with physical harm by another Ron Paul kiddie.

      This one of your’s IS unique though CROOKS… but I only give it a “C” as far as threats go.

      In order to get an ‘A” you have to promise that you will actually follow through with said threat. And please don’t pull that old girly-man stunt of getting your buddies to hold you back while you say lemme‘ at ’em, lemme‘ at ’em… all the while shaking in your Birkenstocks at the thought they might actually let you go! Lmao.

      I hope to meet LEFT COAST face to face, so I’m sure he will introduce us right? You gays (sorry typo), guys all know one another right? Like the attendees at a G. Dead concert, you all follow each other from event to event in your old VW micro-buses, smokin’ dope, talkin’ smack and stealing candy bars from the gas stations along the way right?

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:58pm

      @TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 – I am no kid buddy. I fought my Country unlike some of you Chicken hawks. Like I said tell me what shirt you’ll be wearing. We all know your the real kid in the moms basement. We all know your truly scared. All I gotta say is bring it. I know I won‘t see you in Tampa because guys like you don’t have a job or money.

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:53pm

      Romney will never be president

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:27pm

      I get threats 24/7 from Neo-Cons Like you. I’m not backing down

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:39am

    I think this choice has “ outed” our so-called Ron Paul dudes for the Obama drones that they are. Getting those Ron Paul tee shirts, black hoodies ( Democrats love hoodies ) and Guy Fawkes masks ready for Tampa !

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:46am

      I was a Ron Paul dude and now I’m a Gary Johnson dude. If anyone has been outed, it has been those pretending to be conservative. I want to be free, I want my children to have a future. I don’t believe in taxation without representation. I don’t want my boys dying on a sand dune for some trumped up boogie man. I want the government to be about 1/10 its current size. I want liberty. I want people who voted for the Patriot Act and NDAA to go to jail. I want people who vote for government expansion in size, cost, and intrusion to go away. I want honest and transparency and I want people’s voting record to match to what comes out of their mouth.

      If this disgusts you then I think you need to check your own views. Either you‘re just a spiteful because you have no principle and we do or you really don’t know what it means to be conservative.

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    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:56am

      I like to see a Guy Fawkes mask bloodstained and under a dump truck tire

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:14am

      ROTHBARDIAN. Regardless of how you shine up and sell that Ron Paul/Gary Johnson failed Libertarian spin of your’s… you are nothing more that part of the committee to re-elect Obama.

      The Libertarians who vote for Johnson will be zeroed-out by the 10% of past Obama supporters too lazy and complacent this time around to get their @sses up off the couch, the White Guilters who have cleared their consciences and the history voters (for the first Balck POTUS) who have since realized that they don’t want history to repeat itself.

      Good luck with dope for Gary Johnson vote. Sorry, Gary Johnson vote for dope. Nope, think I was correct the first time around.

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    • resme
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:18am

      Here’s Paul Ryan begging for congress to pass tarp….
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyJBZYz858M&feature=player_embedded

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:25am

      @ Time to End,

      Difference is I won’t ever have to stare a hyporcrite in the mirror. Good luck with that.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:59am

      ROTHBARDIAN. I get the distinct feeling that there are no mirrors in your hovel. We all know what THAT means ‘BARDIAN… lmao.

      “Blah, blah, blah, blah.” No that’s not Oblah-blah-blah I’m quoting… more like Bela Lugosi…

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:09pm

      Roth, All of these people will be walking around with their head hung low on Nov. 6th asking themselves, what happened? What happened was the establishment shoved a progressive left leaning moderate (PLLM) down our throats, then the PLLM picks another NDAA, Patriot Act yes voting progressive for VP.
      Ryans claim to fame is his budget proposal that does not balance the budget for 40 years, after I am dead and buried, all twenty somethings will be in their sixties! The problem? Congress through the years. We have to stop looking at people who want to kick the can down the road a little further just so they can keep what they want.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:33pm

      @ Time to end,

      Why will you not engage in the public discourse on facts and principles? What is it with the baseless propaganda personal attacks? (and inaccurate I might add) All you do is hurl insults and conjecture and I haven’t seen you argue a single point.

      Seriously, in all honesty, what the heck is wrong with you?

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:59pm

      Nobody is Gary Johnson dude. The guy is mentally retarded. Just watch him talk

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:20pm

      Their is a difference between Paul Supporters and Occupy. We are not afraid to show our face. We will be at that Convention full force with Ron Paul T Shirts proving you we are here to stay. The only one’s in masks are people like this Barber. Keep hiding behind that PC. Because I know I won’t see you in Tampa

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  • joey g
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:37am

    Yes,yes.yes.yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes there is hope…God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:51am

      What about him excites you so much?

      Was it his voting for all the bailouts and stimulus with money we borrowed from China? Was it his voting to expand the welfare state with GWB? Was it the Patriot Act endorsement? Was it the NDAA endorsement? Let me guess, no child left behind?

      What about his voting record has got you all stoked up…I must know.

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    • dimitrisokolov
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Paul Ryan is a really bad choice. Marco Rubio would have been much better.

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

      “Marco Rubio would have been much better.”

      An open-border, amnesty-supporting, McCain-loving globalist would have been much better?? On what planet?

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:06pm

      Allen West or Rand Or Ron was his only choice to have a chance of winning. Now we lose and Romney is stating he is in to lose.

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  • AdmiralQ
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:37am

    Rubio was my top chose for he is really enter getic and has very strong Tea party support. However Ryan also has Tea Party support hopefully they will overcome the coming attack of the White Party that the radical Libs will try

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:53am

      rubio will be ryans vp in 2020…yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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  • PPMStudios
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:37am

    This means 16 years for the GOP…

    Bite on that Lib-Progs…. That was the last nail in the lunatic lefty coffin….

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:34am

    The leftwing loon strategy to label common sense and the U.S. Constitution as “far right radicalism” is on a collision course with itself.

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  • ninecarpileup
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:33am

    If the dems go after Ryan on his budget plan, the republicans need only have one response…WHERE IS YOUR BUDGET MR. PRESIDENT, almost four years and were still waiting!

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:31am

    Pretty funny how some people get so excited over just watching paint dry or grass grow…….

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  • David F. Maas
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:28am

    Hallelujah1!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless you Mitt and Paul— on to victory !!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:28am

    To call a fiscally responsible individual “intensely conservative” is to highlight just how radically leftwing and the loons have become…

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:46pm

      To call someone who thinks it takes a generation to balance a budget “fiscally responsible” kinda speaks volumes too don’t you think?

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:28am

    This only confirms to me that Mr. Romney does not see the larger picture and what he is REALLY up against! Atleast McCain was smart enough to pick a woman to invigerate his ticket….but come on now? He picks a White Male Anglo Saxon? I’ve nothing against my own and hear me out but this pick in light of the nature of the situation this country is in is just plain not playing good chess! Ryan is a fine gentlemen to be sure with a good record I‘m sure or we’d already know about the skeletons in his closet…so far we haven’t heard of any, but forget all that because it does not even matter for what I am getting at. Americans need to wake up and realize their country is now a full blown multiculture and his pick simply needed to be representative of that….yea I know we shouldn’t be picking people based on race…but that is exactly how Obama got into office with overwhelming support from Jews, Whites in general, and of course the Black community. Jews and Blacks normally vote Dem but the White crowd voted for him out of White guilt more or less and that is taking into account racial issues. Two White guys on the ticket may look very normal to some but after all demonization of Whites in general via the mass media does anyone really believe this was a smart pick given the nature of what we face through the voting populace? Like I have said many times here at the Blaze, this president is not going anywhere and this move will just help my predictions come true.

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    • NickyLouse
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:44am

      ChiefGeorge, I sincerely don’t mean to disparage you, but do you realize that you are a racist?

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    • Stryker
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:52am

      If that isn’t the most sickening racist post I have seen……..

      We need to choose our leaders based on principle and policy NOT race and gender. To choose otherwise is to pander to the sexist, racist tendencies of the left. You are falling into the trap of the mamby pamby libs my friend, Now get out of my face you jack wagon.

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    • football lady
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:13am

      So who are you voting for, Roseanne Barr or Obama. If you must, you must. I am, for one, excited to see two American adult men on the ticket with adult ideas. Romney/Ryan 2012!

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:15am

      @ChiefGeorge

      Watch it now, your true colors are showing through Sir.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:16am

      You racist P O S, all you turdz do is look at color. You CG are a coward.

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    • bamanana
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:17am

      We needed Romney to pick Allen West or Marco Rubio!!

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    • juge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:17am

      As a female, I am sooooo glad he did NOT choose a woman! Paul Ryan has integrity, is honest with all of us, and is exactly what we are looking for. We need some truth and some people who are not afraid to speak it! If you look at what women he could have chosen, then what would we get? I am not disappointed at all, in fact, I am invigorated!

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:20pm

      I do not care what race anyone is running for office, I do look deep into their record. Ryan voted for the Patriot Act and NDAA, that is enough for me, oh and the fact that his claim to fame is a budget proposal that does not balance the budget for 40 years!

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:29pm

      yea, would have made more sense if Romney picked Pelosi

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:55pm

      Tell that to my Asian wife and three half White/Asian children you putz! Still can’t see the forest for the trees out there can you?

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:01pm

      This totally flew over your heads!

      I’m probably the only person on this particular post who actually married someone outside their own race…how about you? Calling me a racist is utterly stupid because I am merely pointing out the facts of life here. Don‘t shoot the messenger just because you don’t like hearing the message. Romney could have evened up the playing field a lil by picking yes, someone well qualified but also of color or opposite gender. I call this winning, this pick ensures victory for Obama thats all I am saying! Jackwagons? Really?

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:54pm

      If you vote Romney, your choosing to end America. and our Freedoms and if you choose Obama your choosing to end America and our Freedom. Rhinos are cowards and I would fist fight any of you on the streets. You just took away my liberty filthy Americans. You Rhinos are my enemy paid trolls.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:00pm

      My God, You idiots who say he is a racist are unbelievable. Did you even read his post? Lol your act just like the Libs. Anyone who says anything about RACE IS A RACIST. Lol no room for discussion.

      Bob you are no oath keeper, you are a shame. Change your name you globalist swine.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:38pm

      @WakeupUSA!

      Thanks! Your no doubt a smart person who actually took the time to read what I was saying! I love it here at the blaze, one minute they root for what your say when it fits their worldview, but then when you throw something out there that just does’nt quite jive, they go right to name calling like the sissy pukes liberals are. Now I’m a racist, now I’m trying to be harvard without even a high school education. Look! I don’t need to toot my horn to prove anything to anybody! My mission is to wake people up to the reality of our situation. If you want to live in pretend world with our liberal brethren then go right ahead but realize this. You are influenced by exactly the same things that make them tick and you had better confront that real soon..stop lying to yourselves for one, stop trying to make everyone follow your vision of America…thats what progressives do, stop trying to be an activist for others causes and start fixing your own sorry mess of a life….we’ve all got one including me. Fix you and I’ll fix me, once this is done there is no need to fix America because it will be you and me in a fixed state of affairs! Enough!

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  • Marine308
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:25am

    It’s about time! Now they need to start fighting back with bold ideas! And a real plan to turn this country around!

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  • NancyBee
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:20am

    Paul Ryan gives the American people HOPE And HONOR!!! ROMNEY/RYAN 2012

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:30am

      Honor?

      See how honored you feel when you’re being monitored, tracked, watched, groped by TSA agent, etc. I’m sure he was honoring you when he voted for the NDAA and Patriot Act Renewal.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:42am

      Right on! I watched the announcement and tears came to my eyes as the first time I’ve really felt the Hope & Change through Romney and Ryan. R & R
      We’ve been on a road for the last 3 1/2 years to gloom and doom and I’ve felt depressed for my Country because of what this man has done to America, trying to run us into a 3rd world country and put the hammer down on us. Thank GOD we have good, honest people running for the party of Abraham Lincoln (my ancestor via his mom, Nancy Hanks)

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  • dehardcore
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:20am

    NOW GET OUT AND VOTE FOR CHANGE. End the legacy of the 1st commie black muslim potus.

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  • UnkleBuck
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:17am

    I’m REALLY surprised that of ALL the news orgs that The Blaze could have picked to show live coverage, that they picked NBC. Fox ain’t perfect, but GEEZ!

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    • My_Pen_Is_Huge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:00pm

      As much as I despise NBC, the video feeds seem to stream much better than Fox. Most of the links pushed to FOX for video always seem to buffer.. I would rather see The Blaze choose the best streaming feed over a feed that is from a more favorable network but may not stream as good..

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  • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:16am

    Great! (sarcasm)

    He voted with GW Bush’s agenda of expansion 94% of the time, he also voted for the TARP bailouts, the auto bailouts, the massive Bush Medicare expansion, Patriot Act initiatives, NDAA, the 2008 stimulus package, and the $192B 2009 stimulus package.

    Sounds like he’s going to be quite a compliment to Romney.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:28am

      At least it’s not that little troll Ron Paul……(not sarcasm)

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:35am

      Troll?

      You remind me of the wife in Farneheit 451 trying to decide on how to vote and ultimately not picking the “fat one”.

      Grow up and get some principle and get educated. Either you want to be free or you want to be a serf. Either you want to deal with the real issues or you want to play political games and pass the buck. If you want to get sucked into some binary construct created by the system then so be it. Then the deficits will keep coming, the debt will continue to grow and your posterity will be debt slaves to a government that YOU created in which they had no voice.

      I’d rather pick a “troll” with principle than a couple of progressive statist smooth-talkers who can appease unthinging mouth-breathers like you.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:37am

      And another thing “rational man” (which clearly you are not)

      You didn’t address any of the points in my post. Try, just once to “rationalize” Romney/Ryan voting records to what you have constructed in your mind is going to happen and then ask yourself who is being “irrational”?

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:57am

      @Rational Man – you need to change your name. I guess the fact that the man has a voting record that does not support freedom is of no concern to you. Sadly, all of us that are sickened by all things OBAMIE only have one choice and I am sure most will hold their nose and vote for Oromney. However for you to do the Saul Alinsky negative on anyone that is not a ‘Republican big spending take away our freedom fake conservative’ is flatly a shame to all true freedom loving Americans

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:06am

      I think you need to leave the country , go live in Russia, Cuba, China…we don’t want your kind here!!!!!

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:14am

      and take ChiefGeorge with you………………………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:28am

      Thanks Joey G. Classic example of neo-con thinking.

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    • resme
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:36am

      @roth, Don’t call them neocons, Call them trotskyite or marxist.

      resme  
    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:49am

      RATIONAL. What you have here is ROTHBARDIAN, a poster who fashions himself an Austrian economics expert just like his namesake Murray Rothbard. I’m starting to feel that this ROTHBARDIAN is really Lew Rockwell hanging out here passing time with we Conservatives and pandering his failed Libertarian (Mises, Rothbard,Paul and Rockwell) mantra to anyone still undecided and willing to listen.

      Anyways, you really don’t see Murray Rothbard mentioned all that much except in Libertarian circles where you also find chatter about Mises and Ron Paul. Rothbard (thankfully dead) was a racist, a bigot, an anarchist and anti-war zealot to the extreme.

      Oh, and boy did this guy Rothbard hate Reagan with a vengence. That’s why Ron Paul hated Reagan. Like ideological Father… like ideological son.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Spin much Time 2 end?

      First of all you don’t know me from Adam. Secondly, picking and choosing pieces and parts of academic discourse and then taking it out of context is just spinning on your part. Here is Rothbards take on Reagan from his own pen. Anyone can see for themselves.

      http://libertarianchristians.com/tag/ronald-reagan/

      I don’t happen to agree with all that, but then again I don’t need to explain myself to you.

      Secondly, associating an idea of one person to another and then destroying the other as a means to get at the one you have current issue with is straight out of Alinsky tactics. Congrats. Goebels would be proud. Seeing as how you support RINO’s then there is obviously a connected support of GWB and the Karl Rove camp and therefore your economic doctrine is that of the Paul Wolfowitz neo-corporatism. Whoa…that IS fun. Maybe I should take a page out of you and Alinsky’s playbook and do this more often.

      Nah, I better not. Anyway, let’s try to stay on the issues and facts shall we? I mean propaganda wars as a way of staying away from voting records of candidates can always be entertaining but I do think we owe it to our countrymen to actually debate principles, facts and public record…don’t you?

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Roth, Time_2 is a paid poster on here, you can tell by the name he chose. His only purpose on here is to bash Ron Paul and his supporters. He has no purpose, no core principles, no sense (in anything), he is like all the others, jumping from one candidate to the next (whoever the establishment reporters told him) as he has no mind of his own.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:40pm

      ROTHBARDIAN. I think I have you, Rothbard and the rest of the Ron Paul Libertarians to re-elect Obama contingent here pretty well pegged. Call it (me) whatever you will… if that floats your thrifty-Liberal boat.

      It doesn’t change the fact that you and your ideology is a “fail” as the kiddies would say and based on the majority of comments I’ve seen here on The Blaze for months now… a “fail” here too.

      HuffPo calls your name ‘BARDIAN…

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:54pm

      @Time,

      You haven’t got squat.

      FIRST…You STILL won’t talk issues or principles or facts. All you can do is egage in this petty labeling and namecalling game. I should know better than to argue with idiots.

      SECOND…You don’t know beans about me. I have never in my life posted on HuffPo and never in a million years would I ever do so. It is a cesspool of progressive statists over there. You’d do well there.

      THIRDLY…You are defending and supporting this:
      1. Continual budget deficits
      2. NDAA
      3. Patriot Act
      4. Gun Control
      5. Government Run Healthcare
      6. TSA Warrantless spying on Americans
      7. TARP, Bailouts, and Stimulus

      If opposing that makes me a “liberal” in your mind then I’ll wear that.

      As for the failed economic policies? We are almost 16T in debt. We have 200T in unfunded liabilites. We have deficits for as long as the eye can see. We have a black box Fed that is unaccounatable to anyone and is private and prints money off the back of our children. We have corporate welfare, farming welfare and lazy people welfare. We have inserted government into the doctor’s office and everyones wallet. I promise you NONE OF THIS WAS LIBERTARIAN ECONOMIC POLICY YOU TOOL!!!!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:59pm

      LEFT COAST wrote… “His only purpose on here is to bash Ron Paul and his supporters.”

      Lmao. And Ron Paul supporters are here to encourage the choices Republicans/Conservatives made and are making? You are here as standing side-by-side the Party of Ron Paul’s choice endorsing Romney and Ryan? Bolderdash you nattering nabob for Paul. What a load of baby diaper nuggets you have stored next to your whine rack you Obama supporter you… lol.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:09pm

      ROTHBARDIAN. I debated Ron Paul acolytes long before you came on the scene. At this late date it’s only importent to point out your failed ideology and candidates for posterity purposes. You Ron Paul/Johson supporters have and are willing to make your Obama beds while the rest of us do the heavy lifting once again to attempt to defeat him. You are fodder and nothing more at this point. An insignificant crew of agitators, malcontents and miscreants. End of debate.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:18pm

      @Time,

      So for the record that is a “NO” when it comes to debating voting records, facts and principles. Got it. Carry on.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:56pm

      ROTHBARDIAN. You‘re a little behind the power curve ’BARDIAN. You can debate records now and until the cows come home. But the simple fact is Ron Paul is not and won’t be the nominee. Gary Johnson is a lost cause along with any other 3rd Party pooper and Romney/Ryan is the only game in town. You either get behind them and support them to defeat Obama. You have nothing new to offer except the same old tired anti-Republican/Conservative/GOP commercials running in your head that you jot down here in support of Obama ultimately and nothing more. Simple as that…

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 3:26pm

      Why can’t you understand this? It isn’t about the GOP vs. the DNC or Obama vs. Romney. It’s about right and wrong and whether this country has a future. Obama should be in jail. His tyranny is inexcusable and hopefully history remembers that. He’s a lying a$$hat, totalitarian plutocrat. But just because I can‘t stand him doesn’t mean I have to accept whatever else is thrown in my face. That’s your construct not mine.

      There are things that matter intensely to me. Obama is obviously a tyrant. But there I don’t see anything in the voting records of Romney or Ryan to suggest that much changes. You can’t look at their records and even begin to make a case that they are conservative. What is it somehow ok that a mouth breather shoves his hand up your wife’s skirt and porno scans you now that a republican is in the WH? Either things are wrong or they’re not.

      I will not accept “well at least Romney isn’t Obama” when I’m being groped, my country is running deficits that my grandkids won’t be able to pay, my liberty is under attack and probably we’ll go poking around for more war? Why would I think that junk is OK just because it’s Romney now. You can‘t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. I ain’t buying it. And if attacking me makes your choice more palatable then so be it. But you need to never complain about deficts, debt, tyranny, big government or liberty again. You’re endorsing them, not me.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:31pm

      I don‘t really have much to complain about ’BARDIAN.. I leave that to you and the rest of the Obama left to biatch about everything under the sun. I‘ve taken advantage of every opportunity I’ve ever had or was presented with. I’ve made it a habit of turning negatives into positives and have done very little to no whining along the way. This is the true Conservative way. We try to look at the glass half full, not half empty. While you are griping about whatever strikes your fancy (and some issues are valid of course)… there are those of us who are working to make things better and doing the things required in the here and now and concentrating on what we have control over to make change. You are doing zip, nada and nothing if you hand Obama a second term with your wasted support for the non-factors and also rans in ‘12. Yeah, go with that conscience of your’s. Obama, Biden and Reid will love you for it. When I see Ron Paul or Gary Johnson… all I see at this point is those two wearing a tee shirt that reads (with an arrow pointing) I’m with stupid. And stupid is their supporters.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:36pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Rothbard (thankfully dead) was a racist, a bigot, an anarchist and anti-war zealot to the extreme.

      Oh, and boy did this guy Rothbard hate Reagan with a vengence. That’s why Ron Paul hated Reagan. Like ideological Father… like ideological son.
      ——–
      Kudos, TIME 2, it is always crucial to identify the source of ideological deception (i.e., a curse that is passed on via the political baton). Alinsky-> Obama is another example. You can tell there is a spiritual element because there is a cultic adherence to the political head.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:35pm

      KRYPTONITE. Agreed and kudos to you for knowing what’s below the surface if anyone takes the time to scratch the supposed “Liberty Movement” scab off. Most people think Ron Paul is just a looney old fart and his supporters are just a bunch of goofy kids. This is a freakin’ cult by all definition and a very dangerous one at that.

      That being said… the more I read these supposed “deep thinkers”… I just scrtach my head and wonder how many times being dropped on your head as a baby results in them being them… as opposed to a full-fledged card carrying Liberal, lol.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:57pm

      @TIME I am impressed with your accomplishments..I respect and appreciate your service to our country..and I love all of our military and pray for their safety..but TIME..Romney as understand was a draft dodger..and he is run by the banks just like Obama..And TIME. they stand for the same things..the very same things..that is why I cannot understand your total support of someone who has communistic ideals just like Obama.. Did you ever see the investigation into 9/11?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28tE0fKpISM
      Did you ever see the history of the Rothschilds here in the states? If you did..you would understand that it is the money that is controlling everything… Both men Romney and Obama are just spokemen for them..although I understand that Obama is still their choice pick.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJy4gSG8Q3w
      I would like to meet you TIme.. Someone that I used to know was a Viet Nam vet..He was in the infantry..and he died at a very young age from alcoholism. I cannot even begin to realize what you have been through.. Take care Time.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:14pm

      LOL. Ashes… as we used to say back in the day… always glad to be back in the world.

      Sorry ’bout your friend the Vet. As far as alcohol goes… don’t touch the stuff but once in a very great while if you might be wondering? Never smoked dope. Or pop any pills beyond some vitamins and an ibuprofen every now and again. No crutches and no vices. Well, I lean on a woman every once in awhile… but she’s my wife and said she better not catch me leaning on another. I shudder at the thought of what she’d do if I did…. brrrrrrrrr! She‘s got the look of a killer when she’s mad ASHES. She has ice in her veins too! She‘s a tough ol’ Irish broad! Man I love that ol‘ combat wearin’ boot lady of mine (Retired First Sergeant she is).

      My youngest daughter made it to Staff Sergeant and was on the fast track, but met this fast talking Buck Sergeant that looked like a movie star and that’s all she wrote. She ETS’d and became a dependent for awhile… lol. Both are out now and livin’ large!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:46pm

      I think Joey likes me!

      Hey Joey! I really hope your planning for the future ie An America without dedicated patriots in it. You say I should leave the USA? My people go back to the 1700s in this country, fought in all its Wars. What do you have to offer except rancor? Atleast I put a icon with my own face on it!

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:27pm

      @TIME LOL That’s a great story Time…Sounds as if you have one that can keep you in line..with kids you can be proud of..All the best Time..

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  • PA PATRIOT
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:13am

    OBAMA RESPONSE

    More class warfate, Rich White Republicans (who create 90 percent of the jobs in this country)
    are going to steal more money from the entitlement class.
    Pitiful
    Dishonorable
    Disgraceful
    God Bless America
    11/6/2012

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    • hannah
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:22am

      Trust the liberals who think welfare is better than woking and obama is the answer to their entitlement state country. I can’t wait to see Romney elected and turn the country around to its glory.

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Liberals were souping up Romney after every debate. They wanted this to happen. How dumb are you

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:13am

    Looks like the GOP actually grew a pair. Time to get out my check book and get behind them.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:18am

      So you like the police state and expanding government? You should be happy then.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:30am

      The GOP is left of center m friend…wake up and smell the socialism and police state coming your way!

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    • lnewbury
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:40am

      Could not agree more. Will also get checkbook out now. Romney/Ryan–even sounds good.

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    • joey g
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:45am

      yes we can…yes we can…yes we can gd all you fn liberals

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:27am

      Joey!

      You would not know what a liberal was even if if flew up and hit you right in the face at Times Square.

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  • Iam4America
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:06am

    Paul Ryan came out hitting hard and standing strong for Conservatism.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:17am

      Conservative?

      He voted with GW Bush’s agenda of expansion 94% of the time, he also voted for the TARP bailouts, the auto bailouts, the massive Bush Medicare expansion, Patriot Act initiatives, NDAA, the 2008 stimulus package, and the $192B 2009 stimulus package.

      Guess I don’t know what conservatism means anymore.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:32am

      Roth is right!

      Another Left of center socalled conservatives who could not even be called good liberals of old. More of the same is coming our way! They are not paring up for our sake, they are paring up for the banking elites pick, don’t be fooled by a couple of dyed in the wool RHINOS.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:43am

      George,

      That’s exactly what it is. Did you see that JP Morgan is now suddenly not going to be prosecuted. That was Obama trying to throw them a bond because the Wall Street money is going to Romney now because he’ll look the other way while they get in bed with the Fed to rob us blind.

      Of course most didn’t know JP Morgan was up to to get prosecuted. Most didn‘t know the justice department 180’d, most don‘t understand fractional reserve banking or the counterparty risk component to CDO’s or CDS‘ and most don’t know wha either of those are and most don’t understand how private risk is being transfered to sovereign balance sheets by Uncle Ben.

      So if you don’t understand how the game is played then I guess ignorance is bliss. Romney!!!!!

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:11am

      It sad when the fake conservatives on this forum think that Ryan is a fiscal conservative. We have no real choice but to vote ORomney/Ryan but if they win it will be bitter sweet. The big spending, freedom robbing, war loving cancer will still be there destroying the country … just more slowly.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:59pm

      Paul Ryans wants to kill Americans with out trial. He will never get my vote

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  • Individualism
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:04am

    put up the headline Obama wins reelection.

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    • dadsrootbeer
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:11am

      Can’t wait him to destroy Biden and ur prophet. Get out the popcorn.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:14am

      great choice a person who has accomplished nothing and is now threatning to take away Americans services to increase military spending, they should have tried Governors of North Dakota, New Hamphires, or South Dakota or one of the states doing well with the economy.

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    • UnkleBuck
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:15am

      WOW! Really? I’m amused at the GREAT contradiction in terms between ANYTHING Obama, and the Left represents, and your “Individualism” handle. Those terms/concepts couldn’t be greater opposites that East and West! And make no mistake! If Obama DOES win, neither you, or anyone else will have an America to call home. It will either be overrun with Sharia Law, and your head, along with 100,000′s other heads will be rolling in the streets, or it will sink, and implode on it’s massive, socialist debt. After all, that was Obama’s Master Plan in the first place.

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    • mussidie
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:15am

      haha! I love it! stick a fork in your party dems, y’all are DONE!

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    • Defiant530
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:20am

      NOW we will see obama and the dems SQUIRM like the spineless bunch they are,back to your mommas basements libs

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:23am

      Uncle Buck,

      Seriously, contrast the two for me? On voting records you have to look at the facts.

      Big government and expansion of govt? Obama- Yes Romney – Yes Ryan- Yes
      Police State growth via Patriot Act, NDAA, etc? Obama – Yes Romney Yes Ryan Yes
      Gun Control? Obama – Yes, Romney – Yes Ryan – No
      Govt Run Healthcare? Obama Yes Romney Yes Ryan No
      Nation Building and Warmongering? Obama Yes, Romney Yes, Ryan Yes

      I could go on, but I don’t really think I have to.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:45am

      Meh, Ryan can withstand the slings and arrows. And many ‘services’ (read: handouts and entitlements) need be to be excised. That’s not to say I believe we should throw many at the whores in the defense industry. Those wizards have proven time and again they don’t really care if our military goes into action with over-hyped crap… as long as they have a nice, fat budget with which to play.
      Not that I wish ill on Romney, but I’d like to see the ticket reversed.
      And like it or not, Individualism brings up a good point: People have themselves convinced (even many on the right) that gubment owes them something and there are sacred cows which cannot and shall no be touched. This will be used by the opposition to engender fear in those who will see Ryan as a threat to their turn at the trough. Never underestimat the power of human stupidity…. or greed.

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

      It’s over Romney just said he wants to lose. And he proved by picking a loser like Ryan.

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  • www.TopTheNews.com
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:01am

    I guess this makes sense if you look at the Electoral breakdown. Wisconsin would be a nice swing state for Mitt to pick up and Rubio’s popularity and endorsement maybe enough to win Florida without him on the ticket.

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    • abunchofbullshit
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:10am

      Romney winning FL anyway! Leave the Senators like Rubio and Portman in place, as Senate just as important. The whole key to the US future at this point is Economics, and now their are two of them with strong economic background to undo the crap that this prez has left us with!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:27am

      Undo it? Really? You think they’ll audit the Fed? You think they’ll demand monetary policy accountability? You think they’ll balance the budget? You think they’ll lower taxes? You think they’ll allow for free markets to correct asset prices?

      Y’all are getting to be no better than those idiots who were duped by Hope and Change. Seriously, wake up. Look at the issues, look at the ones that REALLY matter. Look at the size of the problem and then look at the voting records of your candidates. If you honestly believe this is the solution then you’re higher than a kite.

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:19am

      We need very strong (and with courage and balls) Senators in place, remember the White House is only 1 piece to the overall plan to fix this country, we need more House seats and we MUST take the Senate and banish the autocratic rule of Harry Reid who’s denied every piece of useful legislative action in the Senate, he MUST be expelled and quite frank its time for him to be put out for retirement as well.

      We also need to further strengthen our Governors, if we want to have any kind of Constitutional Amendments, we are going to need the numbers in the governorships, we MUST close all of the liberal loopholes and cracks in our system that Obama and the liberals have located and exploited so no party can ever use those avenues again, we must close and secure our government and never allow the liberals, commies and islamists to ever exploit them again

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 11:33am

      Romney was losing Florida before today and just lost it with his pick of medicare killing Ryan. Romney will be lucky if he does as well Mondale in November.

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:36pm

      ENCINOM, dont you ever get tired of being a total lying jerk?

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:17pm

      Jerks? Their are a million of you cowards on this webpage. You trolls annoy me so much. You soup up what ever the media is saying, SHEEP!

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  • AmericanWomanFirst
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:01am

    Yes! YES WE CAN!

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