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Take Our Poll: Is Paul Ryan Right VP Pick for Romney?

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. What do you think of the choice?

 

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate.

The Romney campaign, in confirming the decision in a press release, dubbed Romney and Ryan  "America's Comeback Team."

Ryan, 42, is considered a rising star in the GOP. He is best known for his proposed budget that calls for an overhaul of Medicare.

Read more about the decision here.

What do you think of Romney's choice? Take our poll. If you think someone would have made a better choice, tell us in the comments.

Ryan, who is in his seventh term in Congress, represents Wisconsin's First Congressional District in the southeastern corner of the state. He is chairman of the House Budget Committee and serves on the House Ways and Means Committee.

In January 2010, Ryan gained attention nationwide after unveiling his “Roadmap for America’s Future.”

Romney formally made the announcement on a tour of the U.S.S. Wisconsin in Norfolk, VA. In the announcement, he said Ryan is the "intellectual leader of the Republican Party."

  • Is Paul Ryan the right vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        65 (65%)
    • No
        34 (34%)
    Total votes: 99
  • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: 2012 Presidential Race, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Presidential Race 2012, Romney-Ryan, and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan

WILFREDO G. SALCEDO, Sr.

10:18 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Easy pickin' for Democrats with his Medicare voucher plan, Socialized Engineering by Gingrich.

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charles hampton

10:25 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Paul Ryan? Paul Ryan? I know Paul Ryan, and he is no Sarah Palin!

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Paula provenance

7:48 pm on Monday, September 3, 2012

A shoe anybody. And anything will be n
Better than obama

Barbara Scherer

10:34 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Why would you want him to be Sarah Palin?

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Carl W

5:53 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

To further guarantee a loss! :-)

louis kootsares

10:57 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

good pick anything is better than what we have now when the country has hit rock bottom the only way is up let me tell you all the good obahma has done............ i am ready for a change for the best out with the zero in with the hero

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Ben Miller

3:29 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency for 2 years Obama was in office. He got everything he wanted and he was a miserable failure. Good Lord, learn some facts before you embarrass yourself further, Sandy!

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Carl W

5:58 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

My God, we were heading straight for all-out 'Depression.' Are we now? He SAID unemployment would be the logest part of recovery.

Anyone remember a G. W. Bush Administration, that wrecked us? Bush rated "2nd worst president" in U. S. history. Why do you think he stays on his ranch, "won't be able to make the Republican Convention?" Just happen to be busy that week????

Donald Olson

11:11 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Best choice the Democrats could ask for!!!

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Rosemary B

9:35 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

He will wipe the floor with Biden in a debate.

Jeff Dimmig

11:17 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Great choice. Serious, intelligent, leader willing to address the big problems facing the country. This is your guy if you don't want to end up like Greece and have your children dealing with aftermath.

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Wayne Schissler

11:24 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Good choice.
http://lvtp912.blogspot.com/2012/08/hiding-spending-doesnt-reduce-spending.html

Remember a little while back when some Democrat ad had a Ryan look-a-like pushing somebody in a wheelchair off a cliff? Expect more of that to go along with the ads portraying Romney as the murderous cancer causing evil capitalist that he obviously is.

Now we'll see just how much of a stomach the people will have while more of this foul swill is shoveled up for them. Bon Appetit!

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Ben Miller

3:26 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

It surely is! Ryan shut Obama down in a debate in the White House within 6 minutes. Wait until the American people see him against that numskull Joe Biden. He'll eat him for breakfast.

Robert Sentner

11:45 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Romney could have picked bozo the clown, anything is better than Obama/Biden !!!!!
Obama "hope and change"..... I hope he's not our president for 4 more years and please change the president anything is better than Obama.

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brian

11:56 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

The surest way to end Social security and medicare as we know it, is to do nothing at all.
Ryan's proposal is to restructure them for people under the age of 50 so they will be available to future generations. The democrat's proposal? (sound the crickets) Their only answer is to show a Ryan look alike pushing grannie over the cliff. The factual commercial would show grannie driving a school bus full of kindergarteners off the cliff, jumping out at the last second.
Anybody that opposes restructuring should know that they are stealing from their children and grandchildren.

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brian

2:50 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Facts are facts, huh?

1) Obama has been president for 3 1/2 years, not 5. 2) Obama had a democrat house and senate for his first two years. He got EVERYTHING he wanted. The republicans could not stop anything. 3)The republicans won the house in 2010. Democrats still control the senate. 4) The republicans have sent bill after bill to the senate where they die because Harry Reid refuses to bring them up for a vote. Harry has not brought up a budget to vote on for over 1200 days. 5) Obama started campaigning for re-election in January. He has held over 200 fund raisers during that span. During that same span, guess how many meetings he has held with his jobs council? Answer.....zero.

You would think a president that thinks about jobs as he goes to sleep and thinks about jobs as soon as he wakes, would have those priorities reversed.

optimist

12:51 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Ya good luck with that message. Best thing to do is to stop invading and rebuilding foreign nations, allowing bankers and vampire investors to destroy the economy and then bail them out again. Instead we should invest in education and infrastructrue and build from the middle up instead of the trickle down down theory. Social Security will never be allowed to fail because the senior voters would go crazy. Same reason why W signed prescription drugs for seniors into law which has never been paid for and simply piles onto the national debt. Can't wait for the Ryan budget to be seriously looked at by the public especiall seniors. This is going to be too easy.

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Wayne Schissler

1:59 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Optimist, I think you illustrate the issue wonderfully! Your argument that SS will never fail because it can always just be piled onto the national debt with every other program depicts the head in the sand mindset. Don't attempt to fix anything, just use the issue to scare seniors. Maybe it will be too easy - but it's also very. very, wrong,

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optimist

2:06 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Fix social security:
1) raise the age slightly
2) stop raiding the trust fund to fund Iraqi Police or preparing to invade Iran
3) rebuild our economy so revenues come up

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Wayne Schissler

2:27 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

@optimist
Your fix:
1) you are scaring "soon to be seniors"!
2) BWAHAHAHAhaha ha ha HAR HAR HAR har aah keff pant har har har har ------ trust fund? You mean the "lock box" full of IOUs? They haven't been raiding that for the past few years, have they? Nooooooooooooooooooo!
3) BWAHAHA... muffle, compose myself. The stimulus was supposed to do that. The 2009 stimulus alone was enough to build 1,567 Golden Gate bridges (yes the dollar amounts were adjusted for inflation). Where are they? Where's the first dozen?
http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/17/obamas-shaggy-dog-story-about-the-golden

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Ben Miller

3:30 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

We're about to do it with two countries overseas, under Obama's watch. That miserable joke of a President is going down faster than Monica Lewinsky with the last miserable joke of a President.

Patricia Roblin

1:01 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Picking Ryan guarantees Obama's reelection hooray!

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Frank

1:53 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

President Obama just sealed Florida!

Obam/Biden 2012!

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optimist

2:07 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

I know right. Why not pick rubio which actually may have helped him. I think they know they are not going to win. The others probably said forget it just like Condy Rice.

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yearoftheSnakE

4:24 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

the older folks in Florida and going to be thrilled------NOT!

what could be better Eddie RYAN Munster & Ayn Rand----OBAMA 4 MORE YEARS!!

thanks a bunch Mittens what a pick!

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Ben Miller

9:18 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

I haven't heard a "NOT!" joke in about 15 years and it came from a movie that was released 21 years ago. No wonder you Liberals are so up-to-date on the facts.

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GBxUSAF

5:46 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

with all those dead people voting, he's a shoe in

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optimist

2:52 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Really? Why is he up in every poll including Ras? You have no chance in PA. Voter ID might make it close but Rep. turzai and his beg mouth as well as no actual evidence of voter fraud may get that gem legislation tossed. The PA GOP lost on reapportionment and delaying the special elections and they may very well lose this one also. Won't matter though PA will stay blue and so will Wisconsin, Ohio, Nevada, Michigan and most of the other swing states if not all. You guys have no chance. You will have better chances in the Senate.

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optimist

2:54 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Really that's the video that's going to win it? Wow I thought you had something. This is coming off the W economy and is easy to refute. How many shut down factories as a result of Bain Capital loading them down with debt? This will be a cake walk! Romeny Ryan Reverse.

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Ben Miller

3:35 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Don't forget, you bet your house that Romney would lose. I'll give you until December 31st to be out.

Nancy O'Keefe

3:10 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

This is exactly why this country can ill-afford Romney's political and economic philosophies. A Nobel Prize-winning economist spells it out.

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Stiglitz-wealth-gap-inequality/2012/08/09/id/448084?s=al&promo_code=FB98-1

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Ben Miller

3:37 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Didn't our President win one of those peace prizes.... while he was in the middle of two wars and preparing for a third... and reneging on his promise to close Gitmo.... and waterboarding prisoners there in what he called torture? Yeah, somehow, the prestige of the prize has lost its luster.

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Nancy O'Keefe

5:35 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

This isn't about President Obama. This is about a specific political ideology that is a direct result of the policies that Romney supports. It is about the EXTREME and GROWING inequality between the very wealthy (the ones who bankrupted the country, the so-called job creators) and everybody else. Stiglitz also implicates the glaring need for tax reform, so that the disappearing middle class can be restored, as well as the loopholes that allow American corporations to avoid paying taxes. After all, didn't the Supreme Court say that corporations are people? This article is neither a critique of any one person nor of the Nobel Prize but rather of a political bent that will usher back the policies that bankrupted us during the Bush years. To get back to the original question of Paul Ryan...I think he was a fine choice.

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Wayne Schissler

6:42 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Fascinating, there is a quote from that very same Nobel Prize winning economist talking about the Obama administration's bank bailout. He said that the people who designed the plans are...
“either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afYsmJyngAXQ&refer=home

Frank

3:31 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

I'm LOVING the blogosphere today! The GOP is digging themselves deeper and deeper and Democrats are completely PUMPED UP! Romney should just close down his campaign and go home! LOL!!! It's over! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!

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WILFREDO G. SALCEDO, Sr.

7:06 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

My feelings exactly...But have you seen the MO (modus operandi) these clowns are doing?.. Misinformation, voter IDs, uneven voting hours in OHIO (Republican hours only) among others.

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Phillyboy

10:01 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Frank....Your the only Democrat that is pumped. Pumped about what ????
8.3 % unemployment . ...15 trillion in debt ....bad foreign relations..
Is this the Hope and Change you voted for in 2008???? You want four more years of this ??? If you do your either stupid, fiscally irresponsible or all of the above.

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Frank

2:20 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

Phillyboy - I believe you're either stupid or ignorant to think "I'll Say Anything" Romney is your answer to higher employment.

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Rosemary B

9:43 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

What about the lying Obama Campaign? Lied about Romney being responsible for that lady's cancer! They should be ashamed of themselves. Implying that Romney has not paid his taxes for 10 yrs? Without any proof! I want to know when Obama stopped beating his wife!

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WILFREDO G. SALCEDO, Sr.

8:57 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The pro-Obama ad about the woman dying of cancer was not APPROVED by Obama. Meanwhile, Romney came out and approved a message claiming Obama dropped the work requirement for welfare recipients... Blatantly false, but Romney wants Obama to come clean...Who is the dirty one here?..Put up or shut up indeed...Remember the birth certificate debacle?..Obama showed his certificate...When are we going to see Romney's tax returns?..FOUR MORE YEARS FOR OBAMA...ENOUGH PRO-RICH IDEOLOGY!..People have suffered enough already...Let Barack get us out of this muck the Republicans got us into...Let Paul Ryan carry Biden's bucket of water.

Bryan Eichfeld

9:51 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Ryan sets up a clear choice for America. Does the country want to blindly spend itself into oblivion or do we take thoughful steps to control spending. Obama will spend hundreds of millions to scare us. But I believe that Romney and Ryan can articulate the imperative need to limit government spending and regulation!

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charles hampton

10:09 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

I might guess, Mr. Eichfield, that under a repub administration, they will find many new ways to squander American treasury and lives in new wars overseas.

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optimist

10:20 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Mr. Tea party,
When is your movement going to concern itself with cutting the military, corporate welfare and mass subsidies to oil companies? I get that you want to gut social security, medicare and you especially hate education spending.

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Wayne Schissler

6:25 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

People here seem to have a total lack of what's going on with Soc Sec and Medicare. For over the past year or two SS has paid out more than it takes in and there is nothing that's going to reverse that trend, even a better economy. It's demographics, the ratio of people collecting to those putting in. So it has been taking out of the "trust fund - lock box" which in reality does not exist other than a number on a ledger somewhere. The money is spent and it its place is a promise to pay it back. So now that we are paying it back it is a strain on the budget and contributes to our insane borrowing/debt. Medicare is in similar fashion growing out of control as a percentage of our budget/debt. This is actually the most predictable financial disaster - every time there is a gov't report out on this the day of reckoning it closer. We are bankrupting ourselves and our children. Only a few politicians dare speak out on it. We need more - from both parties.

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brian

7:40 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

You are correct Wayne.

Everybody needs to read the book "The Debt Bomb" by senator Tom Coburn.

Social Security is a relatively easy fix. You can tinker around the edges and extend the program. Medicare requires much more extensive structural changes. Changes that affect people under 50. If you you want end the program as we know it, do nothing. It will collapse on its own.

Something that cannot go on forever.................. won't.

charles hampton

10:06 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Such spinning from radicals from both sides! If I wake up to a new president on November 7, not much will change. As the sourpuss from Kentucky did, Senator Reid will declare the dem's first priority will be to make Romney a one term president, and the wheels of progress will just spin in the gravel of the next four years. This system is BROKEN!

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bill frome

3:29 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

Obama and Biden are like Cancer they slowly are killing this nation. Obama said he wouldn't raise taxes on the middle class, guess what he lied. Next year our taxes are going up meanwhile the wealthy's taxes are going down. A person making $40,000 will pay more in 2013 and a person making $400,000 will pay less then they did in 2012. I found this out of Obama's own website. Check it out for yourself!!!!!!!
http://www.barackobama.com/om-tax-calculator?source=OM2012_PR_FB_taxcalculator-pr-pa-dpost-l-de_1up_parents_both_bo-0802-3&utm_medium=om2012&utm_source=FB&utm_campaign=PR_taxcalculator-pr-pa-dpost-l-de&utm_content=bo-0802-3

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Frank

3:35 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

Romney and Ryan would be WORSE than cancer. And by the way...are you sure you know how to use a calculator? I'm making $200,000 a year and I will save on taxes next year. Taxes are also the lowest now than they have been in years. Don't be fooled by republicans thinking they will cut spending either. Just look at what congress spent in the 90's under their control and what they spent from 2000 through 2004.

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bill frome

7:19 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

Frank are you insane???? You make $200,000 thats not middle class thats wealthy. You deserve to pay more but under Obama's plan you will save more while people like me will pay more. Did you go to my link, its straight from Obama's page.

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Frank

7:34 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

Bill, You may call $200k wealthy, but with the cost of living, I do not. I'm right at the figure where my taxes would not go up ($198,000.00 to be exact) however, if I do better in business next year and go OVER $250,000.00, then I will pay a bit more which I do not mind one bit. I believe the 1% in this country should pay their fair share. It wouldn't even be that much more...just the same percentage as when President Clinton was in office. My taxes will go UP, if Romney and Ryan get into the White House. And the economy is not the only issue for me...I don't trust republicans as far as I can throw a stick on just aboutn EVERY other issue in this campaign.

Tony

9:29 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

Are you kidding me??? Ryan is a socialist. He wanted TARP and begged for it to pass. Proof is here http://youtu.be/RyJBZYz858M

That makes him a socialist.

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WILFREDO G. SALCEDO, Sr.

9:19 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

It appears that Ryan's budget proposals don't jibe with Romney's who now says that he has his own plan...Say What?..Was this a dart board pick then?..Or is Romney aware that, with his buddy's proposal, he (Romney) would be paying lower or no taxes in the end, because, you see, rich men get richer on their stock market earnings which are taxed at a much lower rate than the rest of us...Incidentally, Ryan's budget plan cuts spending on welfare and other entitlements while slashing taxes for the rich...Heaven help us.

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