Yes, we gave him the opportunity to serve, and with 10.3 unemployment last month, what did he DO FOR US? The same thing every government official in both parties have given us. NOTHING.

retiredfed, assuming your nom de plume you are familiar with budgets, all fed level offices have them. The biggest problem has been the LACK of a national budget for the last three years. A budget looks at both sides, or should, revenue and outlays. The fact that this administration has sat SILENT while their party has not followed through on a national budget is egregious. As the nation’s leader not calling him out for his failed leadership and huge gaps in revenue to spending (deficits) is just silly. Pointing to wording in any study to justify any of this is deceitful to yourself; it is simple math. Bottom line our nation's debt has eclipsed the size of our economy for the first time in our history, at the same time a new entitlement program was put into law. There is nothing in any plan to address this. Pretending the problem is not placed at the foot of the nation's leader might make you feel better, but it doesn't change the facts.

If one ignores all the negative TV ads and simply goes to the national campaign websites you will see exactly why Romney and Ryan will lose this election, perhaps in a landslide.

The Obama website is bad enough if your desire is to communicate directly with someone in the campaign or comment on any issue which concerns you. You can however leave notes, send emails and get a boilerplate reply.

Not so with Romney which is unfortunate. I would actually like to make credible suggestions based on my experience with organizing and polling. But Mitt Romney's interest in even considering the suggestions of anyone except huge contributors is on display on his campaign website. Yes, you can contribute money but its impossible to connect with anyone at all. More insulting is that the links for suggestions and "other" don't work. Reports should be telling you this, not I.

This is Mitt Romney's loss because he will lose the election by not listening to voters such as myself who are absolutely in a position to tell him directly how to win it easily.

RAF - you missed the point. There is no dispute that the government spending is high but to blame Obama solely for the increase is ridiculous. Take some time to read the article and then you might understand. Your reference to Politifact leads me to believe that you didn’t bother to check the link before firing off your response.

The last time "I was asked to serve my country" I was shot by a communist.

The fact the national debt has grown to over 17 trillion must have been missed by politifact...

Oblamer you need to get your facts straight on spending. The claim of Obama exploding the spending has been debunked by factcheck.org. Here is the link to make it easy for you. Note the steady increase in spending during the previous administration and the leveling to only slight increase in spending during Obama's term.

http://factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-spen...

The only reason Romney picked Ryan is that he needed to inject a little youth and "excitement" into his campaign. Not only that, Ryan might prove to be a large problem in Florida. Now, instead of trying to define Romney on his record as CEO and governor, they have Ryan's budgets to use for target practice. Probably not the best choice, but I understand why he chose him.

Gina, It is my interpretation that the equal pay act had nothing to do with women except it was named after a person who felt she was slighted. the law is about the timing of claims and the statute of limitations.

Oblamo - funny as funny as Robme. Bison - not as funny as Ruin

I would rather have Romney and Ryan than Oblamo and Bison.

Vote Robme & Ruin 2012!

Looks like the query didn't stay in the links. Easy enough. Select the name, all legislation, and lastly signed by the president to get the same results.

Oh no! Only 2 bills got signed into law. What is the target for success the left has as the current bar? I suspect the answer is 3 bills, because that is what Tammy Baldwin has accomplished.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/br...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/br...

So how does that compare with the current presidents record, oh yeah he had 2 singed into law as well. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/br...

What about the great Tom Barrett, yep he only had 2 as well. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/br...

I wonder when this new goal post will be moved?

Oblamer:reeding comprehenshion. Ryan has had two bills he has proposed, passed in 13 years. How has he helped his district? Does cutting a tax on arrows lower my taxes or the deficit? Does renaming the post office? What exactly has he done for us in 13 years? Except voting for two wars and various bailouts?

Gina do you know there has been a law for over 50 years that covers equal pay?

I hope people will check Ryan's voting record , especially women since he voted against the equal pay act.

Change away, make sure you add your "Palin" reference to get it up to date with your ideology.

wiki editing story with comments about brownnoser: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/08...

Oblamer: your last post makes no sense.

RAF: citing wiki? lol...give me a minute and I can change that entry (and it was changed just today).

Wow a word used you don't like and it must have come from Palin? Wow, you fit in well with the people that think the same way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple

RAF: use of the made up (Palin?) word sheeple, says more about you than others. Yes, RAF, you are a unique and special snowflake ;)

"Everything else in the Salon article is true, even if you don't want to acknowledge that."
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It is? From the tale by Joan Walch, "Ryan is the fourth Koch, swaddled in support from Americans for Prosperity and other Koch fronts." It is the sheeple like gandalf that believe tales from Joan and those like her.

Is that why the homecoming was in Waukesha?

Stop a Republican lie. The 700B in savings to Medicare, that Republicans claim hurts seniors, actually were huge subsidies to big pharmaceuticals and extend Medicare by 700B.

Oblamer: you said about a post I made on another thread:
"What exactly do you need from Paul Ryan? Can you work? Are you college educated? Can you drive? Can you do things on your own?"
My response: Nothing, I work full time, college educated, yes, and yes. Your looney attacks on me when I point out facts are weird.

Look at the new twisted tale from Salon, local Ryan was born into the Irish mafia. The leftest media have shown their colors. I suspect these and other stories will get much more twisted before the election. The only thing worse is sheeple voters will believe it.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/12/paul_rya...

Your perception they are the same doesn't make it so. One point acknowledges a community offers support, regardless of people taking it. The other view attempts to state individual success is based on others helping while ignoring the same help also provides for those that fail.

Paul, if this doesn't work out you and Mitt could join the U.S. Marines (to serve your country). I think they're still looking for a few good men.

When lies are told over and over some people start to believe them...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/0...

Yada, what are Obamas plans for fixing SS and Medicare? At least Ryan has proposed a start. At least he has the you know what to put ideas out there. What have we seen from Obama or Biden...nada, yada. What do you suggest to fix the problem instead of throwing criticisms?

Good bye Social Security and medicare with Ryan. I attended several of the Ryan TOWN HALL meetings and people were not happy with him. At the Kenosha(Gateway) meetings he faced angry people yelling and signs "stop lying" and "hands off my medicare" that were everywhere.

"Afraid To Face Angry Voters...."

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/a...

"Paul Ryan Booed By..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfegLR6Yx...

And read the 99 FACTS you should know about Mitt.

http://thinkprogress.org/romney-facts/

Yes JSTANLEY - U are correct my friend on Ryan. It should also be noted that a vote 4 Romney will mean that our brave military people will find themselves going off to another war / miltary conflict. Listen to what he is saying.

"Mitt Romney - Warmonger & Zionist" There is no doubt he will lead us into another war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm93Rc7Nk...

The simple statement comparison mentioned by a previous poster says much about the 2 philosophies in the choice to be made this November.

One view is used specific wording of thanking their community.

The other made statements claiming "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help" and "Somebody helped create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive".

The first person thanked a community for offering things. The second person declared any success was because of help and you were allowed to thrive. This is just a small sample of the differing views from potential leaders of this nation.

"In 2010 -- the only year we have seen a full return from him -- Romney would have paid an effective tax rate of around 0.82 percent under the Ryan plan, rather than the 13.9 percent he actually did. How would someone with more than $21 million in taxable income pay so little? Well, the vast majority of Romney's income came from capital gains, interest, and dividends. And Ryan wants to eliminate all taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends." [ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch... ]

Worth a look people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uhZRalM...

poobah, Right on.

“I’m very proud of Janesville and very thankful of what this community has offered me." - Paul Ryan

Boy, where have I heard something similar to that recently? Oh yeah, President Obama said, "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive."

Glad to see Ryan confirming what the President had told us.

Funny (not) that Romney had 10 years of Ryans tax returns when vetting him for the pick. hmmmmmmmmm

Yada... looks like you had best spend a little more time researching the site you used to prove Mormonism is a cult. The quote on the right hand side of the second page is a man who discovered that he couldn't talk to anyone (including his pastor, his buddist friends, and his dog) because they were all part of a cult. The links on the bottom of the page link to some pretty funny stuff, too: i.e. the "Official Cult of Utah" link takes you to the Utah Jazz page.

Looks like you just got taken for a ride...sorry.

Sorry cant and wont vote for this guy just because he's a home town boy

yada once again I will tell you your discimination about someones religion is just as bad as racism. give it up

I wonder if the Evangelical Republicans that attended CHURCH today feel good about supporting a Mormon for President & they should NOT! Wake up - MORMONS are a CULT! Do your homework and learn about them.

http://mormoncult.org/

http://mormoncult.org/mormon-cult-expose...

"Paul Ryan V. Sarah Palin"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...

Point taken; however, I never stated that I am overly trusting in Obama's economic policies either. Aside from trusting Romney/Ryan even less than Obama camp, I still have too many other ideological differences with R/R to vote for such an extreme duo. Great thing about our country, though...conversation and a vote!

Ryan supported ALL those horrible Bush policies and budgets that put us here in the first place, so I certainly do not trust him in terms of turning around the economy. Plus, I have many other ideological differences with him.

We can only go uphill from this Obama Recession/Depression. Three plus years to at least stabilize the economy. Instead Obama has failed us in every way.
Thank you Paul Ryan, for accepting this appointment to be our next V.P.

ROMNEY + RYAN = RECESSION

ROMNEY + RYAN = RECOVERY

Congrats to Paul Ryan !

he doesn't represent my views or values, and his nomination does not change whom I will vote for in November...

Proud! Great Congressman, Great future V.P. in January, and Great future President.

Oh let the hate mongers begin!