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This Poll Is Another Terrible Sign For Paul Ryan And Mitt Romney

Brett LoGiurato|Aug. 13, 2012, 9:10 PM



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Mitt Romney insisted Sunday night on "60 Minutes" that his new running mate, Paul Ryan, is qualified to serve as president if the need arose. But in a warning sign for the campaign, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden is seen as a far better choice than Ryan to serve as president if needed, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll found that by a whopping 44 to 29 percent margin, Biden was "more qualified" to serve as president if necessary, though a large number of voters remained uncommitted.

A USA Today/Gallup poll Monday found that 48 percent think Ryan is fit to be president. That's 9 points higher than Sarah Palin's initial 2008 numbers, but trails every other vice presidential candidate since 1988.

The Gallup/USA Today poll also found that Ryan received the worst initial reception as any vice presidential nominee since 1988, when Dan Quayle was the Republican nominee.

Historical data shows that although it's only one poll, the Romney campaign should be at least slightly concerned about the lack of a boost from its VP candidate.

Shortly after John Kerry made John Edwards his running mate in 2004, Kerry received a surge in support, and Edwards led former Vice President Dick Cheney 45-38 in the presidential fitness question.

And in 1996 — when Ryan's mentor, Jack Kemp, was the vice presidential challenger to incumbent Al Gore — Kemp enjoyed a brief boost, trailing Gore by only 3 points in presidential fitness, before plunging in the polls after the vice presidential debate.

Joe Biden Beats Paul Ryan In Presidential Fitness Poll - Business Insider

November’s choices -- tough to support either Romney-Ryan or Obama-Biden

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Published August 16, 2012
FoxNews.com


We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government.

President Obama has begun to show his hand at private fundraisers and in unscripted comments during his campaign. And the essence of his revelations is dark. His vision of a shared prosperity should frighten everyone who believes in freedom, because it is obvious that the president doesn’t. He believes the federal government somehow possesses power from some source other than the Constitution that enables it to take from the rich and give to the poor. He calls this “a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared,” and he declared, “If you've got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Today in America, nearly half of all households receive either a salary or some financial benefit from the government; the other half pay for it. In Obama’s vision for America, no one will be permitted to become too rich, no matter his skills and hard work. He somehow believes that government seizures and transfers of wealth generate prosperity. We know, of course, that the opposite occurs. Seizing wealth through taxation removes it from the private sector for investment. That produces job losses and government dependence on a massive scale.

The federal government has a debt of $16 trillion. We have that debt because both political parties have chosen to spend today and put the burden of paying for the spending onto future generations. The debt keeps increasing, and the feds have no intention of paying it off. Every time the government has wanted to increase its lawful power to borrow since World War II, members of Congress and presidents from both parties have permitted it to do so.

Last week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, blasted Obama for borrowing more than one trillion dollars in just the past year. He must have forgotten to look at the voting record of his designated running mate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.

Ryan voted for nearly every request to raise the debt ceiling during his 14 years in Congress. He voted for TARP, the GM bailout and most of the recent stimulus giveaways. He also voted to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on a credit card, which added another trillion dollars to the government’s debt. And he voted to assault the Constitution by supporting the Patriot Act and its extensions, as well as Obama’s unconstitutional proposal to use the military to arrest Americans on American soil and detain those arrested indefinitely.

We have a rough idea of how Obama would bring about government control of private industry through ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank. From Ryan’s voting record, we have a rough idea of what Romney-Ryan would bring us: more of the Bush-era big government. In other words, Ryan is just another big-government Republican holding himself out as a fiscal conservative. Even his controversial budget proposals -- which the House approved, but the Senate declined to address -- would have increased government spending. It was less of an increase than Obama wanted, which is why the Senate Democrats refused to consider it, but it was not a cut in spending.

I am a firm believer that the Constitution means what it says. The federal government can only do what the Constitution authorizes it to do. The modern-day Republican and Democratic Parties have made a shambles of that principle. Nevertheless, I understand the “anybody but Obama” urge among those who fear his excesses, as do I. Obama has killed innocents, altered laws, rejected his oath to enforce the law faithfully, and threatened to assault the liberty and property of Americans he hates and fears.

Even though Ryan is a smart and humble and likeable man who was once a disciple of Ayn Rand on economics, as am I, the Republicans want to return to the Bush days of war and spending beyond our means and assaults on civil liberties to return. The Bush years were bad for freedom; without them, we would not have had an Obama administration.

Which do you want?

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written six books on the U.S. Constitution. His latest is “It is Dangerous To Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom.”





November

Social Security Now Called 'Federal Benefit Payment Entitlement"

Submitted by go213mph on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 14:58

Politics, General + Law(s)
I'm only 48 so I don't receive SS but an older friend of mine just emailed me this:

Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a "federal benefit payment"?

Our Government gets away with way too much in all areas of our lives, while they live lavishly on their grossly overpaid incomes!

Remember, not only have we contributed to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.

If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the government pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.

If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!

Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement entitlements? We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, and Homeless.

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan ....... hideout of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?

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Video: Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home!

Submitted by The Libertybelle on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 12:00
Peace / War

Deeply moving video.



Video: Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home! | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution

Unbound and loving it! My National Delegate speech!

Submitted by SilverSonofLibe... on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 02:46
Delegates
DP Original
Texas

We are now UNBOUND on the first ballot at the RNC. To celebrate I decided to post my speech from the 2012 Texas Republican convention. This is a recording of the speech I gave to become the 3rd delegate to the RNC for CD 33.

Rise up and let us have the numbers in Tampa!

Line the Streets! Be heard!

Shout to the hills WE WILL NOT QUIT!

WE WANT OUR FREEDOMS BACK!

WE ARE RON PAUL! Thank you TMOT!



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The Ultimate Mitt Romney Flip-Flop Video Collection

Submitted by Ed Thinking on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 14:16
Delegates
Quicklink

Must share with all the Romney delegates:



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Despair: 38 US Soldiers Killed Themselves This Month, An All Time High

Submitted by P.Au.L on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 16:16
Peace / War

[ The Army Times: ] - The Army experienced a record 38 suicides in July, the highest monthly total since the service began releasing monthly figures in 2009.

According to an Army report, 26 active-duty soldiers and 12 Army National Guard or Army Reserve members were suspected of or confirmed to have died by suicide.

The soldiers included a 21-year-old air traffic controller who shot himself in his Fort Wainright, Alaska, barracks; a 26-year-old captain who died at an indoor firing range in Virginia, and a 29-year-old sergeant who had deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Three soldiers died at their own hands on deployment, and 13 had deployed at least once. But nine had never seen combat, according to the Army.

Continue reading at The Army Times

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Reality Check: Rep. Paul Ryan = Big Spender?

Submitted by northstar on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 10:00
Ron Paul 2012

Reality Check: Rep. Paul Ryan=big spender? He comes today to Cincinnati, a look at Ryan's "principle" problem and voting record.




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40 Points That Prove That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate


By Michael, on August 15th, 2012


What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year.

We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it.

The Democrats are running the worst president in American history, and the Republicans are running a guy who is almost a carbon copy of him.

The fact that about half the country is still supporting Barack Obama shows how incredibly stupid and corrupt the American people have become.

No American should have ever cast a single vote for Barack Obama for any political office under any circumstances.

He should never have even been the assistant superintendent in charge of janitorial supplies, much less the president of the United States.

The truth is that Barack Obama has done such a horrible job that he should immediately resign along with his entire cabinet.

But instead of giving us a clear choice, the Republicans nominated the Republican that was running that was most similar to Barack Obama.

In fact, I don't think we have ever had two candidates for president that are so similar.

Yes, there are a few minor differences between them, but the truth is that we are heading into Obama's second term no matter which one of them gets elected.

The mainstream media makes it sound like Obama and Romney are bitter ideological rivals but that is a giant lie.

Yeah, they are slinging lots of mud at each other, but they both play for the same team and the losers are going to be the American people.

Republicans are being told that they have "no choice" but to vote for Romney because otherwise they will get another four years of Obama.

This "lesser of two evils" theme comes out every four years. We are told that we "must" vote for a horrible candidate because the other guy is even worse.

Well, millions of Americans are getting sick of this routine. Perhaps that is why it is being projected that as many as 90 million Americans of voting age will not vote this year.

Yes, Barack Obama has been so horrible as president that it is hard to put it into words.

But Mitt Romney would be just like Barack Obama.

Those that are dreaming of a major change in direction if Romney is elected are going to be bitterly, bitterly disappointed.

The following are 40 ways that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are essentially the same candidate....

1. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported TARP.
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama's "economic stimulus" packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama's bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the "independence" of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.
14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.
15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.
16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.
17. Both candidates are "open" to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.
18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.
19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.
20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the Patriot Act.
21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.
22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists can be killed by the president without a trial.
23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay like he promised to do, and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.
24. Both candidates support the practice of "extraordinary rendition".
25. They both support the job-killing "free trade" agenda of the global elite.
26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.
27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.
28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election since 1944.
29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.
30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.
31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants) as long as the entire globe goes along with it.
32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.
33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney's "conversion" to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital's investment in a company called "Stericycle" that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.
34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.
35. They both believe that a "two state solution" will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.
37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add "signing statements" to bills when he signs them into law.
38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.
39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.
40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.




August 15th, 2012 | Tags: Barack Obama, Cabinet, Democrats, Depessing, Mainstream Media, Mitt Romney, Obama, President, Republicans, Romney | Category: Politics

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40 Points That Prove That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate

Romney Calls for Year's Delay on Spending Cuts

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