Comments about ‘Vice presidential debate: Will Ryan-Biden debate help boost Romney, Obama?’

Barack 2008: redistributing wealth

Barack 2012: redistributing poverty

If Obama supporters watch this debate, at the very least, they will know who the vice president is and who Romney's running mate is, hopefully. They may even catch one or two of the issues at hand.

The absolute ignorance in the statements I've heard from Obama supporters is a joke. I have heard people asked completely backward questions and regardless of the question they support Obama. Ignorance is Obama's voting base. So please, even though this debate is focusing on the vice president and Romney's running mate, many would benefit by watching anything visual.

Representative Ryan's reception amongst the older voters should be a little worrisome. It's less likely that they'd forget a part of the group from the summer of 2011 threatening to end Social Security and take their medications away. Or in other words 'vote for me even though I was promising you pain, starvation and homelessness to save a baby boomer a couple of dollars'. And Romney's comments haven't helped lately, even though he was just trying to keep the far right vote.

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You got that right!

I would not miss this 'comedy show' for anything.

Paul Ryan vs. the Democrat 'intellect' as Clint would call it.

If Mitt got a boost after soundly defeating Obama last week this debate is going to move the campaign from 'impulse speed' to 'warp factor 7'

There will be more interest than usual in this year's VP debates because Ryan's tax plan is the blueprint for Mitt's policy and people still don't understand it and want to hear him define it.

My biggest reason for voting for Mitt is that when you consider all the restructuring and downsizing that takes place every recession in business, this has never happened for government. It just grows and grows. Let Mitt loose on the government to right size and make long needed adjustments. We were rated 65th globally in effectiveness of governments spending by the Economist. Our money doesn't get to where it's supposed to go. Fix that, and the tax revenue we take in goes farther...

btw - very cool that Ms. B. and I agree on something!

Re: DVD Taylorsville, 00
"Representative Ryan's reception amongst the older voters should be a little worrisome."

The older voters will be curious to see whether Joe Biden will show up to the debate with the same lethargy as Obama. Biden's main claim to fame is multiple documented cases of plagiarism. Not the brightest bulb in his party.

Since President Obama, the leader of the Vice-President Biden, didn't do so well himself on the debate platform. Since the Vice-President is on a close leash, it will be interesting to see what the VP will say when in a quandry. One thing, the President will be trying to cover the the VP in the next debate and try to massage the voters.

If the President gets reelected, the VP will still not change his mode of operating so it will be another 4 years of putting up with this person. He didn't invent the Internet nor pushes anything such as the environmental issues as those lobbyists don't want the VP stating anything that will lower their high status with the President.

Congressman Ryan will have a hard time trying to keep the debate in the format the moderator wants. At least this is the only debate but again, with the VP's experiences, weekly, he will have more time than ever to show his real abilities.

I just hope and pray that nothing happens to the current President to put the VP in charge of the executive branch, even for a day.

the VP debates will have little impact. Everyone already know Ryan can run intellectual, moral, economic, and rhetoric circles around poor joe.

I wonder if Ryan is going to lie as much as Romney did. If he tries to portray himself as anything other than the radical far-right extremist that he has alwasy been, that is exactly what Ryan will be doing. We don't need extremists. The country doesn't need extremists in power. They do the country a HUGE disservice. No thanks.

The same thing will happen this week as last week: the Democrat will tell lies, because that's all he's got. The Republican will cheerfully provide facts and sound reasoning. Everyone will say afterward that the Democrat got demolished.

Ryan doesn't have to bait Biden to get him to make a gaffe. Biden has proven time and again that he's the gaffe-o-matic. It's going to be a bloodbath. Ironic, considering the Dems like to think of their candidates as intellectually superior, yet with Biden any conceivable running mate is more qualified intellectually, including Coffeemate.

Romney is in the headline. Ryan is not in the story. Twice. Shame on me.

"But too much talk about the implications of Ryan’s budget plan, which includes offering vouchers in place of traditional Medicare coverage, could hurt, Jowers said."

Jowers' phrase "in the place of" sounds a little bit off to me. I thought I heard Gov. Romney state that the "vouchers" (he did not use the word "vouchers," Jowers did) were an alternative choice in addition to traditional Medicare coverage, not a forced substitute therefor. Citizens could choose one or the other.

True, Pres. Obama and V.P. Biden push the idea that Ryan's past budget plan is Romney's future budget plan and that Ryan's plan (and Romney's) is for "vouchers." But was that the plan?

And in any event, if elected, Ryan will be president of the Senate, not a member of the House of Representatives, and will not be introducing a budget plan (which originates in the House) and will not be introducing his earlier budget plans, which were previously advanced in the House only to die in Harry Reid's do-nothing Senate.

A vice-president Ryan will be advancing Romney's future budget plan, not former Representative Ryan's past budget plan.

Re: Furry1993 Ogden, UT
"I wonder if Ryan is going to lie as much as Romney did."

If Romney had lied during the first presidential debate Obama would have challenged him on those lies ...... wouldn't he have?

After Obama's dismal failure to perform his cheerleaders were left with no other option but to accuse Romney of lying. Personally I agree with Al Gore's explanation: The rarefied air at Denver's high elevation resulted in oxygen starvation to Obama's brain.

I'm liking Joe on this one. No surprise, I know, but he's the man.

Stephen Kent Ehat= Very well said. If conservatives can hold onto The House, there will be more legislation that can get a budget presented in The Senate. It would be even better if conservatives can take The Senate. Romney will get this Country back on Gods side and Ryan will get America back on a budget.

Furry, unfortunately when Obama tried to repeat the false facts about Romney's plan he was quickly trounced with no comeback, because he had lied about Romney and now had to face him. It didn't go too well.
Perhaps you could face Romney and call him a liar and see how well it goes.
The problem is that people, on both sides too often believe everything their candidate says.
And often they are slight exagerations or out right lies.

I think this VP debate carries more weight than any other in my lifetime.
People need to remember that the VP is one heart beat away from being president.
Who has the morals, the character to step up and become the president if it ever became neccesary?
Joe Biden? Heaven forbid.

Biden's actually a much stronger debater than you all are giving him credit for. He doesn't have to worry about looking presidential like Obama thought he had to so he won't be passive in his debate like Obama was. He's the only candidate in the 08 primary to successfully bury an opposing primary candidate and their main strength with his one-liner about Giuliani's sentences (they have a noun, verb, and 9-11).

Meanwhile, Ryan has to worry about looking too wonky and going over the heads of people. In fact, he might run into one of the problems Obama had, with time limits and sounding too professorial.

Now that's not to say Biden's definitely going to win the debate, just that you really ought not to dismiss him.

If past performance is any indicator we should see a vast difference between Biden and Ryan.
For the last four years Biden has reminded me of Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies. (I should NOT have said that. I definitely should NOT have said that.)
Biden comes off as a friend who wants to give you some inside information. People like that style as long as he knows what he's talking about.
Ryan can be a bit of a wonk and the audience isn't ready for charts and graphs. (Remember Ross Perot?) But Ryan is articulate and likeable. He should do well.

When you think of these two men, who have been in the Legislative branch for many terms. However, Paul Ryan's 7 terms are 1/3 the 7 terms of Joe Biden in the Senate. President Obama hired him for only political reasons and part of their problem in their administration is they haven't had a real job leading. Joe was hired as a person knowing foreign relations since Hilliary was not really someone that could be Obama's hired person, that close to him. Joe was a second fiddle and has remained that way, knowing he wasn't really in the inner circle with Valerie and Rahm and David Axlerod.

I bet he has been skewered with what if questions this week and was told not to deviate from the course. Obama has probably been sweating blood over these debates, especially this one.

Paul Ryan is good and is the part of the race that has joined right in with Mitt. No one is perfect but Paul Ryan has brought his strength to the campaign and is trusted by the Governor. Joe Biden can't be trusted in his language, beliefs and culture he has been part of.