The Republicans could have done a lot worse.
If I lived in one of the 3 toss up states I meant be tempted.
On Saturday, August 11, 2012, MJ wrote:
>
> *Romney/Ryan
> *Posted by Laurence Vance <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>on
> August 11, 2012 06:29 AM
>
> It's official <http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na>. The Republican ticket
> will be Romney/Ryan. Paul Ryan is the chairman of the House Budget
> Committee. See my analysis of his bloated budgets
> here<http://www.fff.org/comment/com1204b.asp>,
> here <http://www.fff.org/comment/com1204f.asp>, and
> here<http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance291.html>
> .
>
> Ryan recently
> said<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-paul-ryan-budget-boss/story?id=12771328>:
> "I am the budget chairman. I am a Republican. I am a conservative. I have
> been pointing out the big flaws of all of the taxing and the spending that
> has been going on around here." I guess that is why he supported bailouts,
> No Child Left Behind, war, and the Patriot Act. See an analysis of his
> record here <http://wi.rlc.org/2010/08/paul-ryans-record/>.
>
> Ryan is the perfect match to Romney since he supported the Republican
> version of health care reform known as the Medicare Prescription Drug,
> Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 or Bushcare.
>
>
> *Re: Romney/Ryan
> *Posted by Daniel McAdams <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> '[email protected]');> on August 11, 2012 06:52 AM
>
> Right you are,
> Laurence<http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/117830.html>:
> Paul Ryan has an undeserved reputation as a deficit hawk. His much touted
> budget proposal was a
> joke<http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/03/ron-paul-on-paul-ryan-budget.html>--
> as Lew said, Don't
> Confuse Paul Ryan With Ron
> Paul<http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/77273.html>.
> As Ron Paul points out in the above link, no government agencies were to be
> removed and there was only a chance of a balanced budget after 30 years.
>
> The left-wing and right-wing media will do their part, to be sure, to each
> reinforce their own stereotypes of Ryan with absolutely no analysis at all.
> To the right he is warrior against big government, to the left he is a
> monster who will starve the children for fear of government spending.
>
> Of course on the biggest budget issues, Ryan spends more than a drunken
> sailor. See this from the RLC analysis that Laurence
> linked<http://wi.rlc.org/2010/08/paul-ryans-record/>to:
>
> Paul Ryan on War and Intervention Abroad -Voted YES on authorizing
> military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002) -Voted YES on emergency $78B for war
> in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Apr 2003) -Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of
> War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006) -Voted NO on redeploying US
> troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days. (May 2007)
>
> Conclusion: Romney's VP Pick = Pro-War Big Government Republicanism, 2.0
>
> In that he is perfect for the Republican Party. The self-deluded would do
> well to wake up and smell the coffee. This is not an aberration, this is
> the party.
>
> EDIT: I should add that Ryan voted to allow the president to indefinitely
> detain American citizens without trial, when not assassinating them via
> drones (NDAA 2012/2013).
>
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