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Romney Picks Paul Ryan as Running Mate

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made Wiconsin Representative Paul Ryan his vice presidential choice.

 

Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. 

His campaign announced the pick Saturday morning, dubbing the two "America's Comeback Team."

The two made their first appearance on the USS Wisconsin, a retired World War II battleship, in Norfolk, Virginia Saturday morning.

Romney's campaign also released a biography of Ryan. Here are some of the facts:

  • Ryan is in his seventh term in Congress representing Wisconsin’s 1st District. 
  • He is Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
  • He also serves on the House Ways and Means Committee.
  • Ryan, 42, is married to Janna Little. They have three children and live in Janesville, Wisconsin.  
  • Prior to running for Congress, Ryan served as an aide to Republican Senators Robert Kasten Jr. and Sam Brownback, former U.S. Rep. and Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp, and as a speechwriter for Education Secretary William Bennett.
  • Ryan is a graduate of Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville and earned degrees in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio. 

What do you think of Romney's choice of Paul Ryan for vice president? Let us know in the comment's section.

Related Topics: Mitt Romney New Hampshire, Paul Ryan, and election 2012
What do you think of Romney's choice for VP? Tell us in the comments.

Margaret Carroll-Bergman

11:29 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012

What do you think of Romney's choice for VP?

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Mel Cross

4:00 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2012

He has more experience than the current sitting president........................

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OllieD

7:38 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Actually, after serving for three and one/half years as President, I would say that President Obama has more experience at being president than Ryan who has, I believe, never been president.

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William Lowe

7:53 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Oliver, Obama does have more experience...mostly bad. Bush put the US on the slow road to bankruptcy but Obama has put us on the fast track.

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Mel Cross

10:47 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

And in that 3 and one/half years what was accomplished? Hows the economy? Hows unemployment? How is your bank account? How is your 401K doing? Did you fill you car with gas lately, Hows the price of gas? Lets see what positive things have occured in the last 3 and one Half years.............hmmmmm I got nothing........I know its Bushs fault........

Martha StGeorge

12:01 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Ryan is a far right Republican who eants to privatize Social Security and tax the middle class. His proposed budget was too far right for Romney. Obama inherited this economic collapse from Bush and the expensive war. The economy is slowly improving.We can't stop midstream. Don't be fooled by this wolf in sheeps clothing. Medicare would be a voucher program under him. Read the real facts on Ryan!

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Mel Cross

12:36 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

A true leader does not blame others, he works to improve the economy. The only Wolf in Sheeps clothing is the current sitting president.......and the sheep are following him....... He brought no experience to the job, and it shows. He has divided the country more than any previous leader. 4 more years, and there will be civil unrest at some point. Our country cannot continue to point fingers and blame, it need to come together and use common sense to improve the situtation. Don't be fooled to think that obama is not going to tax the middle class.....

Sherry Rivet

3:17 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Mel, you said you can't think of anything Obama has done for us since he was elected, so I thought I would give you a brief recap of a few things:
Obama has overhauled the food safety system
Advanced women's rights in the work place
Ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell in our military
Supports Marriage for all orientations.
Passed the Hate Crimes bill.
Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can't afford it.
Expanded the Children's Health Insurance Program
Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty in health insurance.
Invested in clean energy.
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly.
While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating the financial sector.
He created The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
He's done a lot for veterans
He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks.

Oh, and we musn't forget:

He's killed Osama Bin Laden
Eliminated several other Al-Qaeda leaders
Ended the War in Iraq
Begun the drawdown of forces from Afghanistan

You clearly don't respect him or want 4 more years with him, but it's unreasonable to say he has done nothing. He has achieved quite a lot considering how militantly the Republicans have thwarted his every effort.

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Ouie Boscoe

3:22 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

HE KILLED BIN LADEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cant stop laughing from that statement.

The unemployement is 8.3 percent the nation is in financial ruins and
this is all you can say.

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John Paul

1:39 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

amen to this, Sherry...
whatever objections some have to Obama,
this "he hasn't done anything" mind set is a dead giveaway
about those who oppose him or simply don't care about facts...

Margaret Carroll-Bergman

6:01 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

When Operation Eagle Claw failed during the Carter Administration to free the hostages in Iran, it was President Carter's failure. If a president is responsible for failure of military missions, as he is the commander in chief, why can't a president be responsible for success, especially in killing Bin Laden?

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Ouie Boscoe

6:31 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Because Carter micro managed the operation and it was not well planned. Barry Obama spends his time on the golf course staying out of the way of the adults. I will give him credit for that. Also when will Obama start taking responsibuility for any of his screw ups like Solyndra, Fast and Furious etc. Let me guess it was Bushes fault.

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Mel Cross

8:01 am on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Barry wouldn't know which end of the rifle to hold, let alone figure out how to capture Bin Laden........ Even his community Organization Failed.....ACORN..... soon to be revamped and funded by the the GOV. to influence for one party...........

Dionis Montrowl

6:27 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012

Just remember--if you have a job, thank a road.

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Barb Nahoumi

9:01 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

Romney & Ryan would be treacherous for the elderly & women. They will disband medicare & women's right to choose.

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Ouie Boscoe

6:25 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Hey Barb when you come back to reality take a look on how your messiah Obama just cut medicare by 700 billion. Not Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan or any republican but the lying liberals and your lying president did this. Wake up Barb.

Mel Cross

7:56 am on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Lets Focus librals....... I know you want to make the election about these micro issues and social engineering. The BIG picture and the Main issue is the Economy.....Jobs....
Not Jobs created by Taxing to create jobs. ie TARP....... Real jobs from the private sector. NOT Taxing small buiness into failure, not claiming the Gov. Created your business.

Focus Focus (I understand its tuff to do).......#1 issue The Economy.....

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Patrick

4:00 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

*Liberals, *tough

You're right, I'm sure as soon as Governor Romney frees American corporations from their terrible tax burden they will run right out and rehire everyone who lost their job. It's not as if these companies have redistributed the duties of the reduced workforce so as to get more work out of fewer people or anything. Yes, I'm sure the extra money will go straight to HR and not to silly things like executive bonuses or buying a new company jet.

Also, all of you knock off this "Barry Obama", "Messiah Obama" garbage. You don't have to like him, but he's the President of the United States of America. Show some respect. I know, I know, "Liberals made fun of George Bush and called him names!". I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that, "But Jimmy started it!" is the argument a child makes.

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Mel Cross

4:53 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Class war fare............ Librals hate to see sucess and rewards for sucess. Everyone gets a trophy, equal pay for everyone regardless of abiltiy.......Romney has proven Sucess.... The current sitting president came with no credentials and will leave with no credentials. Its all about Jobs and the economy.......Something that has been a failure in the last 3 1/2 years. Why can we not call Him by his name? He went by Barry in HS........Is he running from the past?

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Alex Carabelli

5:15 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

I just want to address a couple things here. First off, TARP was passed under George W. Bush, not Obama or liberals of any kind.

Second, small business haven't had tax increases under Obama.

Third, the idea that liberals hate success is just silly, and anyone who believes that sort of thing needs to reconsider where they're getting their information. Proposing to raise the taxes paid on income over $250K from 36% to 39% is hardly "punishing" anyone.

Romney has been successful in business. He was also the son of a Governor, and CEO of a major car company. He was born with major advantages across the board. He did succeed in turning several million into several hundred million, but the work he did does not clearly translate to anything a President would do.

Meanwhile Obama was born into poverty, worked hard, got into IVY league schools, became the editor of the Harvard Law Review (no easy task, and not handed to anyone).

President of either party has very little direct effect on the economy. But if you want to judge by what's happened, millions of jobs have been created, while corporations hold billions in their reserves. Romney's economic plans & advisers are the same as Bush's. And if you believe a president can influence the economy, why would you think anything different would happen under Romney than did under Bush?

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Mel Cross

5:44 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

TARP may have been passed under Bush but it failed by the administration of the current sitting president and ms. Warren. It is a complete fairy tale he came from poverty, he went to private school paid for by his grandmother who was a bank executive.......wonder why he hates banks? Why is there so much anger towards the current 1%? Success, and it's rewards....... last to be picked at kick ball getting back at kids that were successful............

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Alex Carabelli

6:16 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

If you're arguing that TARP is bad law, you won't get any argument from me. It didn't fix any of the root problems, create a transparent derivatives market, set caps on leverage, end the relationship between banks and ratings agencies, etc. But these are things that progressives want, and conservatives seem not to want (I don't want to put words in your mouth).

The main thing it did was prop up the banks so they wouldn't fail. Which it happened to do splendidly under Obama. I'm not sure how Warren fits into the mix here, she was on an oversight panel that put out reports, she wasn't implementing or designing the program. She saw and highlighted problems. She wasn't in a position to actually make the changes that needed to be made.

And the "anger toward the 1%" is based on the fact that our country and our economy are in bad shape. And the vast majority of us are being hit the hardest already, and being asked to sacrifice more. While the richest among us, when asked to contribute a little more, which they can by and large readily afford to do, start claiming class warfare. There has been class warfare waged in this country over the past many years, and the 99% of us have been the victims, not the aggressors.

And back to Obama, his mother was on food stamps and died largely because she couldn't afford health insurance. The prep school he went to was paid for by scholarship, not his grandparents. And I don't know what this "last picked at kickball" is, Obama can ball.

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