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20 Reasons Why Paul Ryan Was a Good VP Pick

I really liked this "20 Reasons Why Paul Ryan Was a Good VP Pick" List from Godfather Politics (www.godfatherpolitics.com) and felt is was well worth passing along...check it out!

It's so right on!

1. Paul Ryan is not Joe Biden.
2. Romney Ryan sounds like Ronald Reagan
3. Liberals hate him.
4. Democrat political operative and CNN contributor (naturally) James Carville was critical of Paul Ryan because he didn’t wear a tie during the VP announcement. You know the Democrats are worried if a news segment was devoted to what Ryan was wearing.
5. He’s making liberals go insane. Russell Simmons, who is worth $340 million and owned a 49,000-square-foot home, tweeted: “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, two men who will destroy our people.”
6. Romney/Ryan raised $3.5 million dollars in one day after the announcement. Money is an indicator of voter enthusiasm.
7. More than 10,000 people attended a campaign rally In North Carolina. This wasn’t a union “rent-a-mob.”
8. More than 10,000 people turned out to welcome Paul Ryan back to Wisconsin. Neither Romney nor Ryan wore a tie.
9. A fundraiser in Chicago for Obama resulted in a half-full room.
10. Obama and Co. immediately went on the attack. I think they’re surprised that Romney made such a bold move with a conservative.
11. He knows how to debate.
12. He’s not a wimp.
13. He’ll stand up to the liberal media. Not a hard thing to do if a person decides to do it.
14. He drove the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile and worked at McDonalds. This shows that he can relate to people who work for a living and that he had more private sector work experience than President Obama.
15. He’s pro-life. He co-sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act and Right to Life Act.[1]
16. A National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) “press release being circulated by Democrats and women’s groups” accuses the Catholic, pro-life Ryan with “extreme” anti-abortion views.
17. He’s against homosexual marriage. “He has voted in favor of the Marriage protection act, twice in favor of an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage, and against the repeal of the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy.”
18. Libertarians should like Ryan for this statement: “I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.”
19. Hopefully Ryan will help pull Romney more to the right.
20. The Tea Party is enthusiastic. “This absolutely brings excitement to the ticket,” said Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, who said she her reaction was “Wow!” when she heard the news. “This gives us something to vote for rather than voting against (incumbent Democratic U.S. President Barack) Obama.”

For the list and the full story, go to Vote Romney / Ryan 2012!

Back at you Newsweek!  

Brides Bash Obama's June Fundraising Effort

Okay, I am just off of the EVO'12 conference in Park City (which was FABULOUS!) and overflowing with ideas on how to take my political lifestyle blog to the next level:

or fundamentally transform my blog to address interesting and relevant lifestyle issues while also offering giveaways which only include things I really, really like. The caveat being this transformation can't in any way, shape or form compromise the excitement and energy blogging on political topics brings me. Yes, it's a tall order! 

With this all said, I think I landed on my first politically charged lifestyle story without even trying! Thank you David Axelrod! Having just spent quality time with mommy bloggers from all over the country (and world) including several very creative wedding and foodie bloggers, I thought recapping today's Daily Caller story in my own words and theirs was fitting.

'Hell No!" says American brides to Obama for America. That's right, those brides who we love to watch and even giggle about when they throw tantrums on "Say Yes to the Dress" are standing up and saying Hell NO!  Even these chicks know better — you don't mix politics with wedding bliss.

On one hand, you have to admire the audacity of Obama's campaign staffers managing the slightly odd and off-putting Event Registry effort. But, on the other hand, I am LOL-ing imagining Obama for America branded tin cans streaming behind the back of cars nationwide with "Just Married" signs adorning the windows and bride's grimacing on route to their honeymoon.

As The Daily Caller reported (which made my post-EVO conference day just a tad funnier):

President Obama’s bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop.

The desperate initiative, dubbed “the Event Registry,” is being mocked by event planners and couples — and shows how desperate the Obama campaign is to keep up with GOP contender Mitt Romney’s fund-raising.

Campaign officials launched the initiative in late June, the same month Obama raised just $71 million compared to Romney’s $100 million.

Not sure how desperate Obama truly is as it appears he has millions or even close to a billion to spend on disputing Romney's time at Bain and which jobs were created where against his own very poor, jobless tenure as POTUS. But, what I can tell you is our President has an inherent and hard-to-dispute ego that doesn't appear to quit even when it comes to the sacred bride. 

I suppose our commander and chief felt that "his special day in November" was just a tad more important than giving the blushing bride the spotlight.

Until the next post...HERE COMES THE BRIDE!

OBAMA RACKS UP A LONG LIST OF FIRSTS!

An impressive list of Presidential accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
[For those driving in big SUVs with the "My Dog Rides Inside" Dogs Against Romney bumper sticker...who's laughing now?! OBAMA, that's who!]

First President to repeat the Holy Quran tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U. S., including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of hisf riends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it..

First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.

First President to take a 17 day vacation.

THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING UP...

PLEASE REMEMBER THIS LIST WHEN YOU VOTE IN NOVEMBER — SHARE THE LOVE! 

My Independence Day Tribute

Having had a week to reflect on Utah’s recent Primary races and talk with friends, family and neighbors about the outcomes, I know unequivocally that I supported the right men and woman in these races—regardless of whether they won or lost.

As I dig a little deeper trying to make sense of why good people have a harder time winning and the psyche of the average American voter, I cling to a helpful mantra I heard about from a good friend. I return to it quite often these days:

It’s a marathon, not a sprint!

The Fourth of July seems a perfect day to pay homage to this particular mantra. 

Sometimes the good fight just takes a little longer than expected. After all, it took centuries of misrule to break the camel’s back for the colonies but it did finally happen and the birth of the United States and the U.S. Constitution won the endgame.

While it appears from Justice Robert’s recent Obamacare ruling, President Obama’s executive orders that seemingly silence immigration law, AG Holder’s “Fast and Furious” crap shoot, and the current administration’s subversive national security leaks that the idea of "desperate times call for desperate measures" seems like the appropriate dictate, I would warn against heading down this path.

 

As I stood yesterday in my kitchen listening to my teenage son and his friends discuss their fall school debate schedule, how the Obamacare ruling would likely be the debate-topic de jour, and talk about a friend’s recent humanitarian trip to Haiti and how thankful this friend was to be back in the United States after experiencing the destitution and anarchy of Port-au-Prince, it occurred to me that the American Dream might be broken for the moment but it’s far from dead. 

In fact, this dream of freedom and hope seems more today than ever before like a global necessity. 

What this kitchen conversation cemented in my mind was the thought that no matter how battered our country, its Constitution and the political environment may appear to be at this moment in history, “American individualism” and the right to freedom that comes with this ideology mindset has been hardwired into Americana DNA for hundreds of years.

For this, I am thankful and hopeful that come November 2012 our country, Utah included, will be sprinting down Heartbreak Hill toward the marathon finish line.