I maintain that Paul Ryan has just be lined up to be the 2016 GOP Nominee. The Left seems to think Clinton has a lock on their nomination (though I do not share their opinion). So in a Ryan v. Clinton head to head for the Presidency of the United States of America, who would you likely vote for?
I'd vote Ryan. Still a great candidate - far superior to any of the Republicans we've had run over the past 2 decades. I still want Rand Paul to run, though. If he does, he's got my vote.
And I shall respond with voting other, should that be the real choice. What a horrible election that would be.
The last two have been like that, though Romney is a stark contrast to Obama... you cannot say the same for Hillary vs Christie.
I can see that too, simply because they're popular moderates, but I wouldn't count out Rubio and Warren either. Ryan is trying to appear more moderate (he hasn't proposed a personhood bill in weeks), but he'll never been seen as moderate. I think that the more Republicans mention Benghazi, the more the public will side with Clinton -- they just don't see her as being at fault, and I think the GOP's sharp decline in popularity during Benghazigate shows this.
Paul Ryan all the way. It's not even close. I love that guy for all the same reasons that liberals hate him. He's a smug and arrogant prick. And I'm used to people like that being on the left. So it's really nice to have one on my side for a change. Realistically, it probably will be Christie vs. Clinton, though. So I agree with whoever said that.
The make or break issue as to whether I would vote Ryan or 3rd Party would be his stance on the NSA spying. Does anyone know it? Is he closer to Christie or Rand Paul, M.D.? Moi A copy of this upload is on file at the NSA No
I love the idea of Paul Ryan at the top of the GOP ticket, he is not electable. He's the guy who proposed ending Medicare and replacing it with vouchers that would rob seniors of health coverage. Sure it saves money, and allows the very wealthy to pay even less in taxes than they do now. But it alienates a demographic that the GOP has to win to succeed. You can harken back to the near sweeps by Nixon and Reagan, but the GOP has lost the popular vote in 5 of the last six elections. The demographic tide has turned, and the GOP needs an almost perfect candidate to win in 2016. And Paul Ryan would take away a demographic that the GOP absolutely must win to have a chance.
Most likely. Ryan has renounced his previous incarnation as an Ayn Rand wacko, but the folks who run the GOP look at his having been on the ticket with Willard last time, and having failed to carry his home state, or even his home town. He'll try to distance himself from the loathed Republican-run House, but he won't be able to delouse himself sufficiently..
Voting isn't going to solve anything. Because since there is politics the problems are stacking up. Over the past decade even more than ever in poliical history, the voters keep voting harder and harder (means with more emotion, and more fight in them, so more radical than before, and when 'their' party won you see the euphoria), and change more often from a party (which are actually mass organisations, because the problems keep stacking up and cause more organisation (emotions and ongoing problems, cause political/psychological change, which is never in advantage of a population) All the 'big brother' related issues weren't a problem before, today almost weekly there is an issue, with the enviroment the same (decades of green politics never reduced the oil, coal and nuclear energies, but the opposite instead), and with guns the same, and so on. More and more issues means more and more citizens with problems, and they try to fight their problems, but will never get rid of them (because more problems came) You can vote for another century, but will only increase the problems (because over the last century they did) Solving problems can only be done by begin to change things locally (start drilling for geothermical energy for example, because first you need clean energy to get a technological and industrial system, and food production running)
