Paul Ryan to speak to a group of seniors in Florida at “THE VILLAGES.” Watch the sideshow
feliciasonmezFelicia Sonmez56 –Spotted flying above The Villages: plane with banner “Paul Ryan, keep your hands off our Medicare” pic.twitter.com/C0S8uRgS
Coupon boy with his mama
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Romney wants running mate to play it safe, for now
by By STEVE PEOPLES
The Associated Press
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Ryan, who wrote a plan to overhaul Medicare as chairman of the House Budget Committee, did not use the word “Medicare” with voters over the first four days as the vice presidential candidate. When he finally touched on the health care insurance program for seniors, he did so only in broad strokes after Romney himself first outlined the campaign’s talking points. We will not duck the tough issues,” Ryan said Friday in Virginia. “We will lead.”
But Ryan has been directed to avoid taking questions from reporters who travel with him, and to agree only to a few carefully selected interviews. He is known for sketching budget graphs on napkins to explain his ideas, but this past week it was Romney who used a white board during a news conference to help detail his own plan — one he says is virtually identical to Ryan’s.
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Just don’t expect Ryan to start charting his Medicare plans on stage. His proposal to turn the guaranteed health care program for people 65 and over into a voucher-like system creates significant political challenges for the Romney-Ryan ticket — and for Republicans across the country. Many seniors don’t fully understand the proposal, and Obama’s re-election campaign is aggressively condemning the plan as something that would “end Medicare as we know it.”
That’s largely why Romney is easing Ryan into the debate. While Ryan explained his complicated plans at length during dozens of Medicare town hall-style meetings before becoming Romney’s running mate, those kinds of meetings probably are over because they’re considered too politically dangerous to continue.
Instead, Ryan is being encouraged to discuss his young children, his working-class background and his love of the outdoors as the American people get to know him.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/romney-wants-running-mate-1501692.html
That speech was as cheesy as a dish of mac & cheese. Lil Eddie telling the crowd how his family benefits from MEDICARE in one breath andl lying about how he and ROB-ME will protect it for their kids and grandkids. Nothing but LIES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GBhdXfCdaA8
apparently the crowd at the Villages was thoroughly vetted today.
How Republicans Are Trying to Sell Dying Younger to Voters
Today’s GOP is the equivalent of a 1960′s Madison Avenue ad agency aggressively promoting the benefits of cigarette smoking, fully knowing that if they’re successful, millions will suffer and die but only caring about making the wealthy people they work for, wealthier.
http://planetpov.com/2012/08/16/how-republicans-are-trying-to-sell-dying-younger-to-voters/
Recap of Coupon Boy’s speech:
Obama made it worse
Obama raided your Medicare by $716 billion
Romney-Ryan will protect your Medicare futures
My mama & family doing ok by Medicare, and so can you, just vote for the Ryan-Romney ticket
RYAN IS TELLING A BALD-FACED LIE TO THE OLD FOLKS.
Ryan has those lying talking points down. Now he’s plugging Romney’s Olympics record and business recrods- job creation, oh and governor of MA. Uh huh. Bring it liar.
So Coupon boy Ryan just stepped up to the podium with hus mom Betty