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Title: eports: Romney picks Paul Ryan as VP running mate
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ ... p-pick-saturday-032140054.html
Published: Aug 11, 2012
Author: Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Ticket
Post Date: 2012-08-11 03:02:01 by Tatarewicz
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NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney will name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states. The campaign offered no further details, and aides traveling with Ronney declined to comment. But Republican sources told NBC News, the Huffington Post, the Associated Press and CNN that Romney is expected to name Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin--reports the campaign refused to confirm. In addition, ABC News's Jon Karl reported that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio--all of whom were said to be on Romney's short list--have all been told they are not the pick. Soon after the Romney campaign announced the Saturday appearance, speculation about the VP pick began, with Romney's choice of venue for the announcement offering a potential clue. The USS Wisconsin is the ship named after the home state of Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee who has created buzz among conservatives recently. But the announcement also takes place in Virginia, whose governor, Bob McDonnell, has also been rumored as a possible vice presidential pick. CNN reported late Friday that Romney phoned several Republicans believed to be on his short list to tell them he had made a pick--though he didn't identify who that person was, nor did the network identify who he phoned. A Romney spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The campaign has tried its best to stoke the buzz over Romney's VP pick. In recent weeks, the campaign has sent out emails to supporters soliciting contributions as part of a contest offering a chance to meet Romney and his running mate. More recently, the campaign unveiled a mobile phone application, Mitt's VP, that promises to reveal the name of Romney's running mate before it is announced to the media. Romney has also repeatedly declined to offer any hints about who he might pick--most recently in an interview with NBC News on Thursday. Asked about the vice presidential announcement during a media briefing on Friday, Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom directed reporters to download the campaign's mobile app. Romney and his vice presidential candidate are scheduled to travel throughout Virginia Saturday, before heading to North Carolina on Sunday, Florida on Monday and Ohio on Tuesday. Romney aides are hoping the VP pick will offer new energy to a campaign that has been besieged by negative attacks from President Barack Obama's campaign and negative headlines about Romney's own strategy. Ryan, 42, has been viewed by Republicans as a game-changing pick for the Romney campaign--a rising star Republican who has been praised as a conservative intellectual. Perhaps most importantly, Ryan and Romney get along. In the run-up to the Wisconsin primary in early April, the two campaigned together nearly everyday for a week--with Ryan even playing an April Fool's Day joke on the GOP candidate. Reporters trailing Romney at the time noted the budding "bromance" between the two men--a description Romney aides did not dispute. Romney flew from Boston to Norfolk late Friday afternoon with several of his senior aides, including Fehrnstrom and senior strategist Stuart Stevens. He made a brief appearance in the press cabin, where he made small talk on yogurt. There were no major hints that a vice presidential announcement was coming. Indeed, the campaign's mood was so relaxed that several reporters skipped the flight to Virginia and had downgraded plans for coverage of the bus tour thinking that a VP announcement would not come until next week. Poster Comment: CrackerM • Atlanta, Georgia • It's good choice. Ryan understands the desperate need to cut entitlements and isn't afraid to speak that truth. "Entitlements". Entitlements...as if everyone is entitled to everyone elses' money...are the anchor that keeps any hope of economic recovery from beginning. Obama ADDS people to the entitlement cancer that's literally sinking this nation. Nobody wants to touch entitlements They are what MUST be addressed with reality. semi-unrighteous1 • It really doesnt matter who gets elected because they are not going to solve this debt crisis we are in. go to utube and look up what hal mason has to say about the impossiblity of solving this debt crisis. we can complain as much as we want, but that will never fix what is broken here. get out of debt, live within your means and if you get government assistance of any kind, dont count on it in the future & SAVE as much money as you can. we may be going back to how people once lived with generations sharing the same home, living off of a garden in the back yard, and meat as a luxury. The Great Depression could look like a cake walk.+14
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Paul Ryan's dad died when he was 16. Paul Ryan and his family received Government issued social security checks from the government. This helped his family make it through a difficult time. The social safety net helped to give him the opportunity to become the political leader he is today. If he is a self made man, why as young, fit 16 year old man, did he allow his family to receive Government welfare? Was there not a construction job available for the young, able bodied Ryan to support his family, and pull himself up by his bootstraps? Just asking. Paul Ryan is a 2 party fraud selection for the "greater good" of 2 party fraud. Paul Ryan is better suited to being a Dem Party VP candidate if there were actual DIFFERENCES between the 2 parties. I see the sham being perpetuated on American voters like myself. Do you?
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#2. To: Ferret (#1)
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
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#4. To: scrapper2 (#2)
It's interesting they are rolling this out on the weekend. Normally that is the part of the news cycle you introduce bad news. Straight after the Veep announcement, Romney’s campaign rushed out a set of talking points devoted to Ryan’s proposals. They said, “Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction with his budget, and as president he will be putting together his own plan for cutting the deficit and putting the budget on a path to balance.” Axelrod responded on Twitter: “Wow, Mittsters break land speak record trying to distance from radical Ryan budget. Problem: it looks just like Mitt’s.” This is a choice that energizes the Republican and Democratic base, and the stage is set for Obama to squeak a win over Romney, with a new heir apparent for 2016 properly groomed and elevated for the real planned switch from the D wing of the Party to the R one. The advertisement trying to define Ryan before the Democrats do won't be effective doing that, but will set him up as the great White hope for the Republicans in 2012. Yes this is fraud, and it is choreographed really slickly too.
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