Fox is confirming
Mitt Romney will announce his running mate at 8:45 a.m. ET Saturday in Norfolk, Va., Fox News confirms.
Romney will launch his “The Romney Plan For A Stronger Middle Class” bus tour after announcing his choice for vice presidential candidate, according to an official press release from the Romney campaign.
The selection comes roughly two weeks before the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and gives Romney plenty of space to rally the party behind his pick before the official nomination.
The campaign has not yet confirmed who the running mate is. Speculation has centered lately on Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, but Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, among others, have all been mentioned as possibilities in recent days. The Romney could also decide to surprise everybody with an outside-the-box selection Saturday morning.
Of course, since the Obama campaign has already accused Mitt of murdering JonBenét Ramsey, hang on for the revelations that Obama/Reid/Pelosi have in store for Ryan.
When will the man from Wisconsin reveal where he buried Jimmy Hoffa? What’s he got to hide?
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Let’s just review two-years ago when Obama couldn’t help but mad-dog Paul Ryan was Ryan was unpacking the smoke, mirrors, veils, hidden taxes and accounting practices that would make a mob consigliere blush.
It’s ballsy. And it makes me take Romney’s candidacy more seriously, which I didn’t think I’d do. Yeah, I know it’s the VP slot, but still. Hmmm.
Oh, who the fuck cares?
I mean, really. The candidate is still Mittens.
Even if he selected *me* to the VP slot, I wouldn’t vote for him.
Get ready to say that Ryan’s reform doesn’t affect anyone over 55 a dozen times a day.*
On the pick I gotta admit I really didn’t see it coming.
*I suppose we could also mention that maybe we might now be considering turning the wheel rather than accelerating off the cliff.
Well, I’m 53 this year. I don’t expect to see a single dime of Social Security. None. Zilch. Nada.
And, like most of my ancestors throughout history, I expect to work until I cannot work any longer. After that, my life expectancy will have a correlation to the amount of stuff that I have squirreled away to keep me and my wife alive.
Same as it ever was.
– Yeh, its a lock. The ticket is confirning and so is Drudge.
– The lights will be burning late at Gestoppo headquarters. They’ll be forced to dip even further into their depleted campaign funds to grease some palms for any remotely plausible dirt they can dig up on him.
– The only surprise we might look for is Jug ears camp may panic at the thought of a hair plugs / Ryan debate with the economy still in disaster mode and shift gears but probably not at this late in the game.
– As things stand Richard, assuming the worst case senario of a slow painful 10 year recovery you’ll probably be ok with SS. Under that basis its not slated to go bankrupt until 2028 – 2034, so you’d still get in under the wire. My kids, not so much.
Romney could have done far worse. Ryan is a good man and gets what a disaster over spending and entitlement are. And just google the Ryan Budget and you will see two pages of Democrat and leftist attacks of it. Which just confirms to me Ryan is over the target.
But given the Obamacare Roberts debacle, I will believe it when it happens.
Oh there will be social security in the future, but by the time most of us collect the value of the dollar will be so low it won’t matter too much.
– Yes. Inflation is the way they’ll try to keep it solvent, so in a sense its the other shoe.
– Anyone contributing from here on in, baring a miraculous sudden austere common sense complete reversal in the US economy, will take it in the shorts in terms of real value, but there will be something, just not nearly enough to cover a decent retirement subsistance.
Not a Romney fan, but this is a good pick.
Here’s hoping it doesn’t blow up in Ryan’s face.
“….and so we get the very first round of “whats wrong with Ryan”, which, you know, couldn’t even wait until he was actually named to the potential VP position, but in the high pressure world of modern media timing is everything.”
– Now what ever do you suppose is the leadoff complaint by our ever so impartial journo’s might be?
* wait for it…..
“He has too little private sectire work experience”
– I sometimes picture editor room meetings with all the writers standing in a circle, each mans feet astride the guy next to him, while they babble to each other all at once, in sanscrit.
Hmm, if Ryan and Romney win, does Gov. Walker appoint someone to fill the vacant house seat?
Watching liberal heads explode in Wisconsin would be worth it.
The diversity crowd will be all over the Ryan pick, though.
“He has too little private sectire work experience”
Idiots.
I’ve got tingles running up and down my leg.
The diversity crowd will be all over the Ryan pick, though.
Eh, fuck ’em.
Ryan’s a Miami University grad. Back when Ryan and I attended Miami (he was a year or so behind me) – Al Gore came to Miami for a rally.
I wonder if he attended? I did. I mean, you had to hear what that asshole was going to say.
BTW, an NPR piece of Ryan the other day mentioned that his mentor, and the man who encouraged him to go into politics, was a Miami Econ Prof name Richard Hart. He was an excellent prof, and still teaches.
my husband had him for a few courses.
I almost collapsed in a heap of excitement imagining the VP debate.
They’re falling all over themselves in the comment sections at the lefty blogs about how stoopid Romney is for picking Ryan. It’s all over now because Romney “caved” to the Base. Obama is going to kick Romney’s ass. Et cetra, etc, etc. Never mind that Team Obama has proven that they can’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel, an MBA with business experience and an Econ major (real math, folks) are going to get their asses kicked.
Sure.
local news reports it’s Ryan, a “fiscal coservative who proposed a budget with cuts so drastic and deep that even some Republicans won’t support it…. and will take away heathcare for the elderly.”
So, it’s just past 8:30 in the morning and I’m already screaming at the TV. Fucking liars who lie. Good day!
Here’s a link your can drop on the heads of any “Ryan’s budget is genocide!!11!!” dopes. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/154033-paul-ryans-budget-is-a-positive-step-
You remember Simpson and Bowles, don’t you? Obama wishes you didn’t.
Not sure Ryan could have.
There’ll be concern trolls claiming neither man on the GOP ticket is a “real Christian.”
“you can’t make this stuff up” dept.
At 8:30 a.m., during the opening prayer, the faint hum of a plane engine can be heard. The Democrat reaction to the veep has already begun. A tiny blue plane circles the battleship, taunting the crowd, which is mostly families and veterans. The banner trailing its tail: “Mitt Romney: Get Your Hand Out of My Pocket.”
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Obama hates Paul Ryan with the heat of a thousand suns. He should be on offense next time we see him.
Romney punked the press last night by announcing his pick after they were at last call or already in the bunk. Heh.
Concern trolls can go fuck themselves.
Just be kos.
Last night before I headed off to bed I got a little taste of the Leftist reaction to Ryan ..
From one saying he was a “lying hypocrite” because he received Soc Sec payments as a teen after his dad died to the GOP should just concede the election now rather than be embarrassed in Nov.
and of course there were some of the usual “white guy pick = more GOP racism” schtick
Ryan is going to get the Palin treatment and he’s too smart to not to realize that.
Darleen, he’s a “zombie-eyed granny starver!!”, too. Whatever, dudes.
I’m happy to see there was no pandering here: no Rubio, no Portman, no MacDonnell, no one from the battleground states. Ryan is great pick. I am pleased.
Oh, the lefties are trying to make with the snickers about Mitt introducing Ryan as the next president of the US. They better be careful, since the Wonce introduced Biden the same way.
While I think Ryan would do more good in the House, it’s not a horrible pick. Even though he’s a member of a racist race, homophobic religion, and environment-hating political party that hates old people.
I am very happy with the pick, it does swing the conversation at least momentarily from the manufactured issues to the economic plan going forward.
http://twitchy.com/2012/08/11/intellectual-giant-robert-reich-paul-ryan-was-no-match-for-me/ The comments and replies to Wee Robert Reich’s twitter tweet are comedy gold!
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that “extreme social darwinist” shit? Hey, Ryan has kids, he’s working his fanny off to make sure there IS an America when they grow up!
Some Ryan videos.
Just back to the shire, he proposes a Federally mandated 3 weeks vacation for all U.S. employees – get this – to stimulate the economy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/paid-vacation_b_1765629.html
I’m concerned with the Ryan pick. I sort of thought that the over 50 crowd was in the bag – now I’m not so sure. Particularly in the older states like Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, etc.
I think the smarter election strategy was to make it about the short term economic outlook, offering to change that as priorities 1, 2, and 3 through 10 as a contrast with Obama’s priorities of Obamacare and other nonsense. The media would – as it has – do everything in their power to distract the public away from this, but it was the best way to go. Now they have to defend all of the Ryan budget against demagoguery from Obama and the media.
My pick was Rubio, would have liked Christie or Petreus. That said, I’m glad it wasn’t Portman or Pawlenty – no juice whatsoever.
Have faith in oldsters, Alec. They’ve been around a long time. Most of them are veterans, grew up in hard times and don’t expect a bunch of free shit.
Alec
I’m over 50 and my parents now over 80. The Ryan pick is perfect because he’s the only one with the balls enough to actually let the facts of how unsustainable SocSec & Medicare are RIGHT NOW.
The fury in which the Left attacks Ryan (and GW before) with screams of “oh no, he wants to kill granny” reveals their abject fear that their use of SS to keep seniors in line is in jeopardy.
– Darleen, the depth and volume of the pearl clutching, screams, amd generl hysteria on the Left will be a good barometer of how panicky they are.
BBH, they are already screaming at the moderators on Faux News.
Heh.
I was thinking, when Nate Silver wrote this, that the entire point of the column was to bury Ryan. Clever and relentless. (Nate’s recommendation for the Republicans – Portman, McDonnell, Sandoval)
They’re falling all over themselves in the comment sections at the lefty blogs about how stoopid Romney is for picking Ryan. It’s all over now because Romney “caved” to the Base. Obama is going to kick Romney’s ass. Et cetra, etc, etc. Never mind that Team Obama has proven that they can’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel,
That just makes this all the sweeter. My lib face-douche “friend” said the pick was going to energize their base.
Yea. Ok.
And please explain to me how ANY OTHER PICK would have elicited a different response? They’d be saying the exact same thing.
I guess they’d have been happy if he’d picked Huntsman. You know, the guy who finally pulled the splinters out of his ass and is going to speak at the DNC convention?
I absolutely agree with you on the substance.
But the problem is that the Obama, the Democrats, and the Media are perfectly content to tell the rest of the over 50 crowd that their choice is between Social Security and Medicare as it is now and as they’ve been promised and Ryan’s “draconian cuts” – rather than the real choice which is between something (Ryan) and a promise that a future Congress will raise taxes significantly on everybody to keep the SS and Medicare benefit the same.
In truth, the Ryan message should have much more purchase with the youth demographic, but they’re fucking idiots who like shiny things. They’ll chose “free” supplied birth control cooerced from the Catholic Church and pay payroll taxes into a hole rather than vote for a plan that at least gets them a return on their “investment.” (FWIW, I’m in my early 30s). When I think about it, that makes my actual marginal rate 41%ish or something stupid like that (I assume I will get nothing and am just paying to the general Treasury for free shit).
I don’t think that’s as crazy as you think it sounds. They’re going to be able to go through the Ryan budget and tell each of the free shit parts of their base about the free shit that they won’t get if Romney/Ryan gets elected. Those people will vote with your pocketbook.
I think Rubio would have scared them a lot more. They’ve tried to strangle him in his crib (remember the desperate deal they cut with Charlie Christ?) and ever since. That tells you what they really fear. I remember four years ago when I was in the Keys seeing him interviewed by a Spanish language tv station in Miami. I didn’t really know who he was or even what he was saying, but it seemed to make sense. Yeah, it sucks to play the identity politics game, but I don’t see that changing, ergo the above.
Alec, that’s disheartening that your 30-something friends are more interested in getting free stuff than in the future of the country and their own children, if and when they have them. Pretty short-sighted, no?
If you go through Paul Ryan’s plan it is not a giveaway to “millionaires” and a gutting of the social safety net. It’s book-balancing, commonsense cuts, an end to duplicative programs and, most of all, a plan to get our spending under control and not running gigantic deficits. Grandma isn’t going to end up bleeding out on the sidewalk next to her pile of blankets. Nor is she going to have to survive on pet food while selling matches on the corner. This is 21st century America, not Dickensian England like the D’s would like us all to believe.
I also am over 50 and have a newly minted college grad son and one still in high school. Careful planning is the only thing that gets one through tough times. My kids know there is no such thing as a free lunch. your friends should know that as well.
Hey, I heard the Republicans picked a white guy.
HOW DARE THEY PICK SOMEONE REPRESENTATIVE OF 75% of the US POPULATION!
I’m active in my County party and I own a business in addition to practicing law, so I don’t think my circle of friends is indicative of the Gen whatever it is that is at stake.
The hipsters and leftwing douchebags are not what I’m talking about – more the easily led types swayed by the cool factor. I’ve already said a zillion times that I think having a fucking elevator for your cars is pretty cool, but I don’t think that view is as popular as it should be.
The problem is that lots of people (not just the young) have been manipulated to believe that there is a throne room somewhere filled with a gold coin swimming pool that is the answer to the Left’s promises of free shit. People actually believe that, and may well vote on the basis of that false premise. They are not going to “go through Ryan’s plan.” The media will do it for them. That is my concern. Careful planning is good advice, but not easily sold particularly when the whole system is rigged to favor people who don’t plan carefully or at all. Plenty of people in my generation exhibited a lack of planning in their choice of degree and debt – and now they’re wed to the idea that life sucks because some Bond villain is exploiting them by not giving them debt forgiveness and free shit.
Yeah, I think that is stupid as well. Like no one can remember the unabated string of Kerry/Edwards, Gore/Lieberman, Clinton/Gore, and Dukakis/Bentsen.
I guess Dukakis was more of a swarthy crypto-Arab, they might say.
As far as I know, none of those Presidential/Vice Presidential candidates sucked cock – so there, Liberals – just as boring.
Alec, gotcha.
I think there are a lot fewer leftwing douchebags out there (although, I often reference my aging liberal hippy friends, so I could be wrong) than the media would have us believe. They are just noisy, like the gay lobby, and give the appearance of being many more than they really are in number. People who decided to major in Primative Cultures are just going to have to suck it up and learn to say “would you like fries with that?”
That’s what they should do. But they’re more inclined to believe that they are the victims of a conspiracy that is preventing them doing their very special snowflake job and we now have assholes in government more than happy to tell them what they want to hear.
To wit:
[emphasis added]
Forgot the link:
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2012/06/28/interview-nancy-pelosi-on-health-care-decision/
Gad. My home state has gone to hell in a handbasket.
“[emphasis added]”
Ach, the tyranny of ubiquitous blockquote italics. Nuance is damned to obscurity.
Indeed. But on second thought, I believe that the most odious words emphasize themselved.
“NANCY PELOSI: It’s a very California-oriented bill [Obamacare/ACA]. It’s innovative, it’s about wellness, prevention, and the good health of our people in addition to good health care.
California has been an intellectual resource and an inspirational resource in terms of the spirit of entrepreneurship that is supported by people having the freedom to change jobs, create a business, be self-employed, play music, write poetry, wherever their aspirations or talents take them.
Our state and in particular San Francisco is blessed with many creative people, and their creativity sometimes is constrained by their need to hold down another job just to keep health benefits rather than fully dig into their artistic and creative pursuit.
And some small business owners I know, they have to have another job in order to get health insurance because they can’t afford to get it themselves.
I wasn’t surprised that it was upheld. I always said it was going to be 6-3. I gave one of the justices more credit than I think I should have.”
[emphasis decloaked]
Or, translating from the unintelligible BalmerFriscoese patter:
NANCY PELOSI: “Blah gibber blahblahblah gibberblahblah gibblah blahgib-gibgibgib-gibber-berblah-gibblah-bergibgib blah gibber blahblah gibbergib blahblahblah gibbergibgib blah gibbergibbergibbergibblahblahblahblah gibberblahblah ” and etc.
Absolutely uncanny, sdferr.
The word “wellness” always makes me want to slap the shit out of somebody.
Just in case any of you ever meet me in person.
Lest I be thought to have guessed at your original Alec, I didn’t. I looked at the page source, copied and cleaned it up, merely.
I learn something new every day. I had no idea sdferr was fluent gibberblabese.
I wouldn’t say fluent, but that I can get by. I think I absorbed it by osmosis, from living in DC the better part of 35 yrs.
heh.
OT kinda: I just discovered that Paul Ryan’s wife Janna, is the cousin of my congresscritter Dan Boren. In fact, she is named after David Boren’s (former governor, current president of OU) late wife.
Same political world, eh?