9 things you didn't know about Paul Ryan
Newly announced Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is hugged by his children after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced him as his running mate in front of the USS Wisconsin August 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Va.
/ Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images(CBS News) The basic info about Mitt Romney's new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is easy to find: born in 1970, grew up in Janesville, Wis., graduated from Miami University in Ohio, married Janna, three kids Liza, Charlie and Sam.
But a little more digging reveals some interesting, lesser-known tidbits about the man that could be a heartbeat away from the presidency:
- Ryan is a bowhunter and belongs to his hometown's archery association, the Janesville Bowmen
- He "does his own skinning and butchering and makes his own Polish sausage and bratwurst," according to his wedding announcement
- During summers in college, he was a salesman for Oscar Mayer and once drove the company's Wienermobile
- Fifth-generation Wisconsin native
- He was voted prom king and "Biggest Brown-Noser" in high school
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Even though it may not be the healthiest food in the world but there is nothing better than a plate of fried catfish with hush puppies, which are balls of fried cornbread with chopped onions in them, and a side of coleslaw.
Apparently Paul Ryan thinks so too!
Paul Ryan isn't poor but he's still a country boy. He also isn't a Harvard graduate. It scares city dwellers half to death to think that a country boy who isn't a Harvard or Yale graduate could be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
You mean like family trees that have no branches or needing 32 people in a room to have a full set of teeth?
So JV1970 has taken a few days off she's in mourning!
Let's all take a moment of silence in solidarity with JV1970..
then we'll have a moose burger for lunch.
Even three years ago, Tim Mak of Politico noted, Ryan channeled Rand. "What's unique about what's happening today in government, in the world, in America, is that it's as if we're living in an Ayn Rand novel right now," Ryan said. "I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault."
10) He chief souce of inspiration is a fiction-writer.
USSR -- The place where capitalism triumphed over communism.
USA -- The place where capitalism triumphed ovwe democracy.
The only people who will not vote republican, who would have otherwise, are seniors.
The only serious issue people SHOULD have been talking about was how to strip repubs from Congress. That is the only real issue at hand. We could have long been in recovery if they had not voted many things down. Mothered really is not much more to say.
Ryan's plan would have no effect on anyone over 55 years old.
Any one saying different is a complete liar.
But Medicare will not continue as it currently is and must be reformed or all will lose out when it collapses. We can not hide our head in the sand and deny the fiscal reality without an eventual catastrophic collapse.
Especially since it has been proven that Obama's books are fantasy misrepresentations and musings about his drugged addled youth and lusting after made up white women.