This is a great video – Congressman Paul Ryan talking about the budget crisis and our generation’s defining moment.
Ryan: What if you’re President and your member of Congress saw it coming. What if they knew why it was happening, when it was going to happen and more importantly, they knew what to do to stop it, and they had time to stop it, but they didn’t. Because of politics. What would you think of that person? Mr. Chairman, that’s where we are right now. This is the most predictable economic crisis we’ve ever had in the history of this country. And yet we have a President who is unwilling to lead. We have too many politicians worried about the next election and not worried about the next generation.
Absolutely brilliant. With no notes and no Teleprompter.
It’s impossible to watch Ryan without getting a sense of the man’s grasp of the issues, his willingness to say things that may not be popular and his ability to lay the groundwork for tough decisions that are going to have to be made.
If it looks like a leader and sounds like a leader …
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President Ryan, Vice President West?
President West, VP Ryan?
President Paul, VP Ryan Sec Def West?
No RINOs and remember to not let the perfect stop the possible.
This is the thing we will not have the perfect President nor the perfect Vice-President, nor the perfect cabinet nor administration nor the perfect judges nor congress people and so on... however it does HELP to have as appropriate people in word AND deed in leadership position. Leadership positions are supposed to be synergestic but also supposed to check and balance. That is why it is never a good idea for all three branches of government to be all one side or all another side. The only solution is for the BEST people (for the country) to be in the position they are in REGARDLESS of the political association, but sadly a lot of people in power are ideologues.
KQ, I gave you a thimbs up but I must respectfully disagree with the following statement: "That is why it is never a good idea for all three branches of government to be all one side or all another side. The only solution is for the BEST people (for the country) to be in the position they are in REGARDLESS of the political association, but sadly a lot of people in power are ideologues."
First of all, marxists are always idealogues and there is no getting around that fact, the fact that they call us idealogues is nothing but marxist projection. We have the truth, they have nothing but prevarications and lies. We can no longer cohabitate with these marxist pond scum, it's to the point where it's them or us and I prefer us. In order to get our country back we need to stop thinking like losers and start playing like winners! We need to kick their asses and then throw them under the bus, lock, stock, and barrel! They need to know and to feel our contempt and disgust for them..this is not negotiable! We need to get into their faces and call them the inveterate liars that they are, to their faces, and we need to call their media complex the hoax that it is and keep harping on this point as they do with all of their lies and prevarications about us.
We don't own the battlefield because we don't explain our objectives and intentions to an American electorate that rarely sees both sides of the arguement. We don't currently have a leadership that is willing to take the fight to the enemy or explain why we have the high ground and the enemy the low. That is why we are willingly falling for anybody who comes along and pretends to fight on our behalf. We need to get rid of wussies like Boehner and his ilk or we will be destroyed as a people! No more false leaders! Rise up, I hate the media, America! Rise up and strike a resounding blow for FREEDOM!
How am I doing Boss?
and how exactly are you disagreeing with my statement?
The upcoming election will be the first I can vote in; I just registered to vote in school today. If Mr. Ryan runs as President or Vice-President, the Republicans have my vote- though that seemed almost certain anyway.
Now if only Ryan's budget plan would spend a smaller % of the GDP than Bill Clinton did, and maybe get rid of that pseudo-VAT tax, we might then be on to something. Sorry, but as good of a leader as Paul Ryan seems to be, he still has RINO and neocon tendencies imo. Is that better than what is currently in the White House? Yep. But there's still room for improvement.
That's exactly the thing that will keep the most qualified candidates out -- there are too many that aren't "just right".
Enough with the Goldilocks stuff, I want the government fixed, and I want it now.
Exactly Wes's point perlcat, we have good candidates, so we don't have to jump immediately onboard with one that looks and sounds the part but is actually a RINO liberal wolf dressed up in Constitutional Conservative sheep's clothing. Since you think we can do better, by your own admission, then let's do better picking our next POTUS, rather than finding out we have a real mess on our hands two years down the road. I mean, look at what we have in the WH now. If libtards had a brain you could ask them how all that hope and change is working out, and if they weren't such consummate liars, they'd give you an honest answer.
The real victories will be won in the primaries and in getting people into congress that follow the constitution. I'd settle for veto-proof majorities in the House, the Senate, the state legislatures, critical government offices like secretary of state, and if we had a pseudo-RINO as president, then I'd be OK with that, as after enough beatings, he will go along.
Not asking for much, am I?
As to how the libs will take that?
They're like a man who beats his dog, and tells you that it is OK because the dog isn't dead yet. If you take the dog away, he will fight to get it back, because he is a sick bastard. If he gets the dog back, he will continue to beat it, again, as it isn't dead yet. If the dog falls ill, he blames you because you did not pay for its medical care, and if the dog dies, he will tell you it is your fault because you took it away from him and/or because you did not resuscitate it. No cure for that breed of idiocy. Just keep it away from where it can do harm, and find ways to counter it in the culture.
perlcat April 19, 2011 at 10:38 am
"Not asking for much, am I?"
Hell no! You're not asking for too much! Bear in mind that the Republicans are as infiltrated with socialists as the Democrats are infiltrated with commies, neither party, as far as I am concerned, is part of the answer. As long as we have to make nice with the Republican leadership, for appearance purposes, as a voting block, let's start putting the screws to these RINO bastards. They want our votes and then they want us to shut up and go away! Wha..!?!?! Who works for whom? Boehner doesn't have a lock on the Republican leadership just because the MSM says so, he needs an attitude adjustment...pronto! If he's going to act like a little girl that just got bitch slapped then I think it's about time we changed our game plan and our ball-less leadership. Remember, we call the shots, not these snarky, snot nosed elites! As long as we remember that and as long as we remind our (quote unquote) leadership of this fact, they'll simmer down and we'll be able to start the business of putting God and Country back into the center of our business relationships with our trading partners and the rest of the world.
At least he's not claiming some other dude did it like the 'Bamster.
If it looks like a leader and sound like a leader, then the lamestream media will take every chance it gets to dehumanize him. Screw facts, screw truths, just make him look like a baby-killer so the media can stay in power.
The conservatives really have a number of good candidates. The problem is which one to pick. Donks have one half-assed loser -- and they'll pick him by fiat (or acclamation -- whichever you prefer).
How can you say Obummer is half assed? He is beyond a doubt a total ass!
I stand corrected.
[hangs head in shame.]