Protesters interrupted newly-minted Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Monday during his first solo stop on the campaign trail.
During a visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Wisconsin congressman tried to keep his cool at the mic as some attendees yelled things like, "Are you going to cut Medicare?"
In a Midwestern nice way, Ryan finally addressed the hecklers: "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 — these ladies must not be from Iowa or Wisconsin."
"Like I said, she must not be from Iowa,” Ryan added as security teams dragged one woman from the audience after she appeared to rush the stage.
Mitt Romney, in a soundbite he most likely regrets, faced off with hecklers at the Iowa State Fair last year by infamously shouting "corporations are people, my friend!"
Romney announced Ryan as his VP pick on Saturday. Ryan, a GOP heartthrob among the conservative set (Dick Cheney "worship[s] the ground" he walks on), was the mastermind behind an extreme budget proposal that would turn Medicare into a voucher system.
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The GOP goon squad tried to stop protesters exercising their right to free speech.
You can't stop them all, GOP.
The whole world is watching.
The equation has changed. Economy has been replaced by the Ryan Plan. Romney has been rplaced by Ryan as head of the Republican Party. From now on Romney is only a puppet. The elimination of Medicare, Medicade and Social Security are now top riority for the Republicans. The fundamental christians now have one more reason to vote against Romney because we not only have one who is not a Christian, but also a Catholic which my Baptist Church believes is a false religion. I gon't agree. Hatret for Senior Citizen, Women, Education, Sicence, Minorties and Evangelicals is now part of the Romney Mentality.
Get a grip, Augustus! That is simply so very ignorant! Learn how to argue using facts and figures and someone might pay attention to your posts, otherwise its just raving, you know?
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce: since when is adolescent heckling at a political rally exercising the right to free speech? Every organization that is conducting activities of holding political rallies assuredly has the right to have their security teams remove anyone who is in the act of disrupting the proceedings.
Did you not see and hear Mr. Romney state emphatically that the Republican's intend to run a respectabe campaign of intelligent discussion of the serious issues that the American people wish to have now, and not a continutation of the gutter and demeaning to the office of the Presidency lying attack campaigns on character and ethics and backgrounds of the Republican candidates lodged by the Democrat Party and there "I'm going to change the tone of the discussion in Washington DC" Presidental candidate of 2008, Barrack Obama. Ask yourself, whereever did that guy go?
If you don't appreciate that approach, then lets let it come down to action between the few Democrat Party hecklers and the far, far, larger group of people there who assembled to listen to to the Republican candidate to hear what he had to say. Would you prefer that they took it upon themselves to silence these obnoxious rude yokels doing the heckling?
By the way, Obama held his 205th fundraiser of the year in Minneapolis, Wisconsin on Sunday, and the word is out that even though the tax write off donation fee of $51 was all it took to attend that, the hall was only half full. Seems the conservative revolution of Wisconsin that sent folks like Paul Ryan to Congress and returned in the face of a national union financed recall election by larger vote totals than he was originally elected on, Governor Scott Walker. Wonder which way Wisconsin is going this year? I don't!
Keith, Keith, Keith; the Romney campaign followed Axelrod and heckled him unmercifully. Heckling at a political rally IS FREE SPEECH, it's on public property, therefore it's supposed to be free. Apparently, freedom to r&r means you agree with me or you will be arrested. The only campaigning romney, ryan and the gop will do is to ignore any question that will show their true agenda. Arresting people at a PUBLIC place for expressing their 1st amendment right, is UNAMERICAN.
Axelrod wasn't and isn't the Candidate, and he was talking sheet about Bain Capital, not ideas for the present and future. He was out campaigning because the Democrat politicians refused to toe the line with the lies about private equity investing and Romneys knock Romney's and Bain's hard earned 85% success rate of turning around failing companies in troubled industries.And what were those so called hecklers shouting at the lying attack dog Campaign puppet master in Boston, MA but the simple question: "Where are the jobs? Where are the jobs?" And he was taken aback, because he had no answer!
There should have been more hecklers. This duo wants to cut major social programs and give a tax break to the rich. Romney and Ryan are not for middle Americans. They are for the rich and I hope American do not buy into there crap. Romney/Ryan campaign is built on all lies.
I believe the Romney/Ryan campaign is built on the true state of this country's jobless economy and diasterous fiscal situation as according to the Obama Labor Department and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's facts and figures. Hello? It's a remedy to the incredible mismanagement, waste, fraud, and hoplessness of this present Administration headed by the failed Amateur President, Barrack Obama, and the American People will learn that along the way in the next 88 days.
So heckle away, the American electorate will most likely even feed the Obama paid hecklers. Probably with knuckle sandwiches! LOL!
Romney/Ryan are promoting the reform of our tax code, which includes tax rate cuts for everybody, a flatening of the taxes, and doing away with most of the loop holes and deductions to make the tax system a level playing field for all individuals and small business and corporations. The details are to be worked out by the next Congress, and are not locked into either of their plans at present. What was passed by the House in the so called Ryan budget plan was a beginning last year, and contained built in bargaining chips for the negotiations that they knew they would have to have with the Senate...nothing is cut in stone here, Hello Dock. Get a grip!
Congress and the senate are the problem!!! They have social security in general funds!!!! Congress has their mitts into the surplus of the post office and now they are going bankrupt!!!! Career politicians we don't need!!! They have become so complacent in just about everything!!! They need term limits like other politicians instead of always being in campaign mode!!!! People in this country has been very disrespectful to the President of the United States and from members of congress and senate and vocally!!! If Ryan or Romney can't take hecklers, then they need to go home!!!!!!!!!!
They not only take them, they show them the way out! LOL!
Obama has done zilch to earn respect. He is a shrug responsibility and look for someone or something to blame for his disasterous policies failings and his anti-business attitude. He failed! Time to move on!
"Obama has done zilch to earn respect."
Only in the feeble, decrepit and withering mind of old crackers like you, old man.
So Democrats can't defend the indefensible record of the Annointed One so instead they found themselves a new hobby; HECKLING. Very nice.
LOL - I love teabagger fake outrage! Rage away, cracker!
Keith, are you forgetting that 2 wars and Medicare part D came from Bush who didn't bother to put them on the books. That big mess didn't show up until Obama put them on, so now you want to scream that Obama spent all that money. His rate of spending has grown less than any president for years and Romney says he's spent more that all other presidents combined. (Another big whopper from Mittwit) We'll see how Vulcher and Voucher do in November. I'm guessing most people are smarter than you.
That nonsense again. Those expenditures weren't budgetted as paid for by tax revenues, but they were budgetted as paid for by borrowing under the Bush Adminisitration. The Congress of the United States approved those spending on that basis. They were never "off the books" in you naive language, cpattern.
One thing is of paramount importance to the office of the President and Congress; protect the nation. All of our wars since and including the American Revolutionary War have been deficit funded. That is the nature of the financing of war. The social spending is usually determined by the revenue the government take in. More spending for social needs, more revenue needed. Unfortunately, not in the Obama Administration.. he want's to increase continuously social spending, and fund it with deficits...his millionaires tax proposal would only raise and estimated $4.7 billion a year, or enough to fund one day of the Federal Governments operations only. So his increased social spending has been, and will always be deficit funded.
And that is the road to ruin! And in just four short years, with $5.6 trillion of deficit spending accomplished by this President and his collagues in the Senate operating without budgets, we are well down that road.
Romney/Ryan plan to reverse course!
Awww ... how cute, the feeble old man is defending the GOTP lies ... what cpattten1 states above is true and any economist worth their multiple degrees knows it. It is only angry old crackers like you that believe the GOTP lie that 2 + 2 = 1.