Between the warship and music all Preibus is missing is the Olympic torch.

Ryan's proposal adds $5.1 trillion (click here) to the debt from 2012 to 2021, an average of 71.6%  of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually

The GOP actually expects people want to vote for this duo? The choice will keep the Red States red, and might enforce the Republican label in State races, but, as a national ticket, it lacks diversity, women and the Middle Class.

I also have to chuckle when I hear how the poor are going to be put back to work with Republican initiatives. There are poor people that are elderly. They are being forced to look for work now they that they have lost homes and equity in their investment accounts, but, they won't be moving out of poverty anytime soon. Quite the contrary, they will further into poverty with any illness that might disable them completely.

The GOP is out of touch with real Americans, they run and make policy on ideology. It is all they can do.

The GOP has opened up play in states where the retired live, including North Carolina.

Now that he’s (click title to entry - thank you) Mitt Romney’s VP pick, Paul Ryan’s conservative plans to restructure Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security take center stage, especially in Florida, where the three programs account for $96 billion in yearly spending.

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...Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, is the architect of the Ryan budget plan that makes big changes to Medicare and Medicaid and could allow for some privatization of Social Security.

And that’s widely seen by Democrats and most analysts as a politically risky stance in Florida, a must-win state for Republicans, where retirees cast a suspicious eye on changes to the three major government-entitlement programs that pump about $96 billion yearly into the hands of the elderly, the infirm and the hospitals, doctors and other providers who give them direct care.

By picking Ryan, Romeny shows he’s ready to fight for conservative changes to the liberal-legacy programs.

“We won’t duck the tough issues...we will lead!” Ryan said in his official acceptance speech in Norfolk, Virg. “We won’t blame others...we will take responsibility! We won’t replace our founding principles...we will reapply them!”

Democrats are ready, too, for a battle of ideas...