I agree. He is an atheist.

You used to show some promise here, Augustus, so what is up with you lately? One lamed brained statement anti Romney/Ryan after another based on crappolla!

I agree; I think he really loves rand and just uses the Catholic Church for political cover, as he would never be a big shot in the GOP without some religion. the rest of it is just for power, especially over women.

What lies and by the way did you know that Ryan own priest was upset about Ryans budget plan saying it isn't god like.

Republicans don't pretend to be Gods, we leave that to the Democrat's who think they have a devine right to interfere in peoples lifes, and their religious institutions with legislation like ObamaCare, Donald.

@ Keith Longey -- "Republicans don't pretend to be Gods"

If you are a Christian you are called to be Christ like. "Do this in remembrance of me."

How is Paul Ryan's budget that takes money from the poor and gives it to the rich Christ-like?

I thought church and state were supposed to be separate? Oh, but for liberals, that only means when it comes to abortion and free birth control, illegal immigration, gay marriage, etc. Can't have it both ways buddy. Don't tell a religious person to be religious when it supports your cause, but then get angry when they support what they believe because you disagree. I believe wholeheartedly in helping people that NEED help, but if you're able bodied and choose not to work b/c you don't like the wage rate of the available job, or just don't feel like working, you don't deserve help. Let's define who NEEDS help first!!

Theoncomingstorm: It's the Government that is taking the people's money, not one group of people taking another groups money. In the eyes of Obama, it is the function of the federal government to take the money from the rich to redistribute it in direct payments (as in Earned Income Tax Credits) and paying for all the social assistance programs to the lower middle class and working and non working poor.

Nobody is taking money from the poor to give to the rich...that is absurd nonsense! Get a clue!

Keith: "Democrat's who think they have a devine right to interfere in peoples lifes" (sic). But when it comes to reproductive choices, its fine to interfere in people's lives, no wait, to take over for them if and by whom (including rapists) they must have children. What hypocrisy.

I believe Romney will have the right to choose between the King James Bible or The Book of Mormon!

Or if its, Obama, the King James Bible or the Koran!

As we all know, Obama has already been sworn in on the Bible, so what's the issue?

Keith not only are you wrong about our president but at one time even reagan was called a Marxist. I have heard that Ryan and his wife where swingers at one time and he did love the women.

Grandpa is so impressed by his own rhetoric he has to repeat that one about how we take from the literature what we wish...

Narcissists do take from their readings what confirms their self-centered and delusional world... It's easy to spot them, however; they're always at odds with everyone else, prone to extreme dishonesty and outright rudeness, and always seeking the spotlight to mask their deep inadequacies...

Those of us raised in the "Sputnik Generation" were educated to ask the tough questions instead and think outside the box...

Obama is up by six points in New Hampshire, BTW...

SLC

Guilding the lily...

But Donald, let's not go with unproven rumors (at least until there are pictures). Romney already has his wife up there giving a Joan of Arc speech on their taxes...

I have no doubt that Obama read Marx, and took what he wanted from his "manifesto", Cab Driver, just as he sat in Reverand Wrights church listening to Black Thelogy philosophical sermons, but rejected (and apparently forgot) the "God Damn America" comments, and the anti Jewish, anti-White bigotry.

Donald: you are a puke! That "Ryans as swingers" comment as something some little bird or imaginary source told you is the very nature of the kind of campaign tactics being used by the Chicago gansta' politicos, and believe me, it's as Mayor Cory Booker said, sickening. Another post flagged!

Geesh...Ryan's only been on the GOP ticket for a few days and he's already learning how to do a Romney flip-flop on his previous statements about Ayn Rand.

Ryan did it in the "pike" position and full layout with way too many twists, but sadly, Ryan didn't stick his landing...he was about 180 degrees off.

Will these GOP bozos ever learn that they have a history of saying things that are on video that they will never, ever be able to walk back and disavow that they ever said that?

Oh, Donald...Keith likes to portray himself as a "learned" man. You, however, are entitled to your own opinion about that.

Kind of like Obama said in 08 that when you're out of ideas, you have to resort to name calling and the like? Hmmm. Interesting. Of how he said he would cut the deficit IN HALF or be a one term president? Hmmm. Maybe he meant to say he would try to DOUBLE the deficit unless someone stopped him. You libs are so freakin hypocritical when it comes to politics.

And hypocritcal when they start with the playing of the race card as Joe Biden did yesterday in Virginia telling 600 black voters "Romney wants to take the chains off of Wall Street and put BACK them on you'all." Or hypocritical when they start up with the anti Mormon bigotry which has been a favorite subject of puke head Little Lying Larry here! What a bunch of low life gutter pap suckers!

You really want to discuss quotations when your primary candidate is on record for having uttered the following unforgettable phrase?

"I don't remember what I said, but I stand by it, whatever it was!"

Progressives don't have to be hypocritical, ANTHEMBOY. All anyone with a remote clue has to do is wait for either Romney and/or Ryan to say something they've already disavowed or will shortly. Mitt has made a notable career of doing that and now it seems his picked boy wonder is cut from the same cloth. However what I find most amusing is how many Republicans are leery of Ryan's selection to the ticket...and to their credit, some of them aren't afraid to admit it. Hmmm...wonder why some R politicians are shunning "support" visits from Ryan? Hmmm...maybe it has to do with some of those provisions in his "plan" that are particularly offensive to segments of voters, like the elderly. Hmmm?

But sincerely, I'd like to thank your side for the hilarious comedy of the GOP primaries this past year. It was a true laugh fest watching them cut each other up and best of all, if you could sit through it, it was free of charge.

Yep, almost as much fun as watching Sarah sneak a peek at her palm.

Keith...you're trying to deflect agan. Silly Keith...and if you had a wit of knowledge about you, you'd know that the vast majority of the flack coming about Romney's religion is coming from the ultra-conservative christian sect of the GOP.

Keith - do you want to address all the comments made or actions by Republican Elected Officials, Spokesman for Candidates, Candidates and Republicans about this President that are racial or have racial undertones. Nor did Republican leaders ever denounce what was being said or done.

Where was the outrage when Rick Santorum last summer said to Iowa voters that health care reform would make citizens dependent on government. “They will put you in chains called ‘Obamacare,’ and you will never break away,” Santorum said.

There is that Republican double standard.

Only anti black, anti Hispanic I've seen is the Obama economy and what it's done to their communities and families.

Fox news is so BIAS that it shouldn't even be called a news station.

Democrats have the morals of dogs in heat.

Another so called Good Christian heard from, gee the Christian religion has certainly changed the teachings since the nuns and priests taught me.

Great! You got it right!

Only Nationalist Socialist in this campaign is Barrack Hussein Obama, wh is out to have Federal Government control of the Private Sector in our formly free market capitalist economy.

Gladys, I have noticed the same thing, Ryan is a skinny version of Adolph Hitler in his looks and body language.

Keith, as Ayn Rand pointed out, our economy has never been entirely free market. You must have missed that when you read her writings.

It looks like from now to November Ryan wil be the laughing stock of television.

At least we will be intertained by what the media will do to him, except for Fox News who may say that Jesus has returned and in the form of Paul Ryan. At least one person told me that. Is Paul Ryan mentally ill?

After yesterday's display by Joe Biden before a group of ralliers in Danville, VIRGINIA that included 500 to 600 Afro-Americans (urging them to win NORTH CAROLINA), he went on to state in his ending remarks that "Romney/Ryan would take the chains off of Wall Street...and put them on y'all" (said in his best mock Southern drawl). An obvious attempt to rile up the Black voter base they need so badly even though the Obama/Biden economy has failed the black community so badly over the last 4 years.

Twould be funnier if it wasn't so insulting to the black community, Augustus!

A Catholic Priest. Don't be angree. He is a big joke, a cloun, I will not say what else he is. Some will even say that he is born of a virgin.

Born of a virgin? Ryan?" I don't believe that would be true. But it is true that Obama was born a Muslim! And he certainly isn't with his Gay Marriage and enforcing on the Roman Catholic Church conraception, sterialization, and abortion support and his recent "evolving" supporting Catholic Social Teachings, Augustus.

With Ryan as a potential vice president, we are gong to be entertained from now on until November. The best comedy yet - Romney and Ryan, the two stooges. It will be more funny than the three stooges. Maybe there are three stooges: Romney, Ryan and Rand = the three R.

The American People came together t form a limited federal government to preserve the Creator's Given Rights of Life, LIBERTY, and Happiness. Not to make us subjects of an ever growing and ever more intrusive government, Carl.

Augustus...

Keith likes to puff himself up and sound like he's somehow been appointed as the sole interpreter of the will and spirit of the American public. He likes to portray himself as having an aura of superiority, no doubt garnered from his hero worship of his idol, Mitt Romney and that no one understands the people of this country like he can. Nothing could be further from the truth, but wearing the blinders he obviously does, he's incapable of discerning that. He tries to continually deflect the subject topic, but he's not sufficiently capable of doing that either.

Maybe he'll realize that the email he sent to himself appointing him to that "position" isn't really valid in the eyes of anybody else.

Until you come half way close to the knowledge and experience in the world that I have, Eyes Wide Shut, i suggest you shut the f..k up and take notes, and study up before you think you can refute my arguments with anything other than raving insults,

Awww poor little Keith, you do have rather thin skin, don't you, boy-o? You sound so-o-o-o irritated. Still struggling with that self-proclaimed mantra of superiority, aren't you...my, my, my. You do make a lot of assumptions, especially for one who has described himself as being so "learned", don't you? One doesn't need to "take notes and study up before" refuting your arguments...I could tell you why,but it would only burn what's left of that short fuse of yours.

If I have learned anything from your posts, it's that you don't really have "arguments", you tend to spout your opinions, which is fine, but only if you can back them up with some credible evidence, which you just never seem to do. You try to regale me with little stories of your life, as if you really thought that would provide some empirical corroboration. Other than that, with you, it's usually an easily foreseeable attempt at deflection (YAWN).

I suggest that you take a few moments and jot down your life experiences in a book, Keith. Then, you could classify it in one of two ways (perhaps both):

1. Fiction

2. Medical (as in a cure for insomnia)

I do believe I see you, Keith...but only in my rearview mirror.

Do you know that Mrs. Ryan was a practicing lawyer who, like Ann Romney, gave up her career to raise the Ryans young children?

There is no one more stepford like than the young women of this country following Obama, the pied piper of oral contraception, sterialization, and abortion support down the road of our sociey's family and social further degradation.

One doesn't have to be an athist to appreciate individualism over collectiveism, and libertarian values, and self reliance and taking responsibility for one's actions. Examine the Transcendentalist Philosphical movement in the early 19th Century in the US and Europe, and particularly the writings of the Unitarian Ralph Waldo Emerson, who Ayn Rand read at enormously, Fitz!

Seems to me that turning around failing companies in troubled industries in the private sector as Romney made a career doing (85% success rate at that) and working and incorporating the family small contracting business in Wisconsin as Paul Ryan did might receive the approval of Ayn Rand, starose. But i agree, that she would have no use for Barrack Obama and Joe Biden who don't seem to have ever held a real job in all their lives, certainly nothing in the private sector.

If business owners, like your boss, and indeed, all of the rich, would stop hoarding piles of $ in offshore accounts and instead give you and all of us that raise you talk about, we would spend that $ which would stimulate the economy ( without any Govt help) ! Consumers (middle class) can't consume without $)