Hecklers greet Ryan at first solo campaign stop

Updated 3:50 p.m. Eastern Time

(CBS News) DES MOINES, Iowa -- Rep. Paul Ryan, whom Mitt Romney's campaign plans to deploy heavily in Iowa, was greeted on Monday with resistance from an aggressive group of hecklers at his first solo campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair.

Just minutes after the Wisconsin congressman began speaking, protesters began yelling questions at Ryan about whether he was going to cut Medicaid and demanding he stop waging a "war on the poor." As the heckling rose to a fever pitch -- and the crowd started jeering -- two women tried to rush the stage. They got within at least five feet of Ryan before security guards removed them.

Ryan kept his cool but suggested that the protestors lacked Midwestern civility.

"It's funny, because Iowans and Wisconsinites we like to be respectful of one another and peaceful with one another and listen to each other," he said. "These guys must not be from Iowa or Wisconsin."

(Romney heckled at Iowa State Fair on Aug. 11, 2011.)

The heckling continued as he outlined the broad policies he and Romney would pursue in the White House, but Ryan was able to speak over them and finish the remainder of his 10-minute speech.

The appearance was Ryan's first solo campaign trip after being announced as Romney's vice president on Saturday. The two men campaigned together in Virginia, North Carolina and Wisconsin over the past two days. His appearance at the fair came almost exactly one year after Romney, answering hecklers in a speech there, declared, "Corporations are people, too, my friend" -- a remark that critics called callous.

Ryan was in Iowa the same day as President Obama, who is doing his own bus tour that will end in Des Moines on Monday evening. At a speech in Council Bluffs, Obama hammered Ryan for being one of the roadblocks to congressional approval of a farm bill to help farmers affected by drought.

Obama takes on Ryan in Iowa

The Wisconsin congressman wouldn't resist taking a partisan shot of his own at the president, who has not announced plans to visit the state fair. "My guess is the reason President Obama isn't making it here from Council Bluffs is because he only knows left turns," Ryan said.

He had harsh words for the president's recent executive order that grants states more flexibility on welfare work requirements, which the Romney campaign has said is tantamount to gutting the core of the 1990s-era law.

"That's going to send us in the wrong direction. That's the wrong way to go," Ryan said. "We want to give people hands up, not handouts."

[nygurl1]

And dems don't SEND people to heckle! The reps will send shills anywhere to disrupt whatever is happening.

[zarnon61]

OH the horror! I remember I couldn't HEAR a town hall meeting about the proposed health care law because of the chanting and screaming by the Tea Partiers. So quit whining when someone does it to your candidate and your message.

We should make into laws the stuff we put on Kindergarten walls -- where if you can't listen respectfully and make a polite point in turn you have to sit in the corner.

I'm sick of this but as a bipartisan. If you think it's wrong to do it as a Democrat it should be wrong to do it as a Republican.

[Ralphinphnx]

So,frankly I am still laughing at "Admiral Romney" and Captain Mini_Mitt playing Sailors on the deck of the Battleship Wisconsin after the U S Navy told them NO George W Bush "Mission Accomplished
Banners and NO we will not loan you an Aircraft Carrier as well."

[tsigili]

That's the standard Democratic Party "dirty tricks" method. They are so despicable.

[nygurl1]

Really? How come I've never heard of it?

Give me details please.

[spoonie88]

WHAT IS THE RYAN/ ROMNEY PLAN FOR HANDLING THE DROUGHT IN THE MID WESTERN PART OF THIS COUNTRY ?
THIS IS WHERE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST ASSIST THE BREADBASKET OF THE NATION IS AFFECTED

[rjakiel73]

Really? How pray tell would you suggest anyone help a massive drought caused by the hottest year on record? Will additional tax dollars funneled to some program make it rain? Will it cause the sun to set earlier or the clouds to blot out its' rays? There isn't much that can be done short of hiring a professional rain dancer and hoping for the best.

[nygurl1]

Obama put in a bill for drought relief for the farmers and the reps voted it down! I think the dems just got some more voters.

[infantryman1968]

Hecklers greet Ryan at first solo campaign stop


LOL!


The same Obama followers bus'd in from the walker take down.

It will fail.....

The Irony.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Who is Paul Ryan?

A catholic who rejects the teachings of Jesus Christ for the philosophy of atheist Ayn Rand. Nice pick Mitt

[nygurl1]

You have no idea what you are talking about and comparing apples and grapes will never work!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/13/what-did-ayn-rand-teach-paul-ryan-about-monetary-policy/

[josephp5]

Those mean hecklers!

Bothering Paul Ryan when all he wants to do is fix Medicare---by destroying it and using the money for tax cuts for the rich!

How could anyone not be super polite to a man that cares about us so much?

[Maerzie]

It is the height of ignorance to assume that everyone who doesn't adore Paul Ryan, the Medicare/Medicaid slayer to get more money for the multi-millionaires' and billionaires' tax cuts, is a "liberal". Actually, in Ohio, a normally REPUBLICAN leaning, farming state, most of the crowd was probably Republican. Many people believe the term "Republican" is synonymous with "conservative", just as so many, even in the media, use "liberal" to mean Democrat. There is every degree of Democrat, Independent, OR Republican, from extremely liberal of each persuasion, to extremely conservative in each! Why do so many people insist on staying ignorant of such simple things, and then want others to think they understand the more intricate puzzles of politics and party games??

[Jaylah54200]

Do you know the difference between Ohio and Iowa?

Ryan got heckled in IOWA. Not Ohio.

We get confused with Idaho a lot, too. Iowa is not the place where they grow potatoes.

[SamEe14]

Well said. Things are always more complex than they appear on the surface.

[Maerzie]

Ryan might as well get his feet wet in the REAL world of THINKING people. He won't be able to stay in his comfortable little bubble 24/7 since he accepted the position of world property. He obviously would never be able to manage the incident of the shoe that Bush experienced.

[SamEe14]

Yep. It's one thing to be supported in your congressional district and adored in Washington DC by your party bosses, entirely another thing to be accepted by the American people.