Mitt Romney is receiving all kinds of flack for his now-infamous 47% comments. But could they hurt his running mate too?
Rob Zerban, Paul Ryan's Democratic challenger for his Wisconsin House seat, told Ed Schultz Wednesday that Badger State voters are "quite resentful" over the remarks, which were surreptitiously recorded at a Romney fundraiser and posted online Monday by the liberal magazine Mother Jones.
Zerban said the comments echoed Ryan's own much-debunked assertions at last month's Republican National Convention that President Obama had gone back on a promise to keep open a Janesville GM plant . Ex-Janesville plant employees told Schultz after that speech that Ryan "ought to be ashamed of himself" for the claim.
Despite Ryan's presence on the national ticket, he's spending $2 million in ads against Zerban—a sign the 7-term incumbent may actually be worried.
Zerban, who currently trails by around 8 points, said he himself benefited from "government cheese" as a young kid and is living proof of the American dream.
After taking advantage of Pell grants and Stanford loans—students, of course, account for a good share of the 47% Romney was talking about—the Democrat started two businesses of his own that employ 45 people.
"I was one of those job creators the Republicans like to talk about," Zerban said, despite his humble beginnings. "The American dream shouldn't just be reserved for people who are wealthy and well-connected."
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They like to call Obama tax & spend...Okay I will go with that...But its better than the last guy, Spend and don't Tax see where that got us! Massive debit two unpaid for wars Wall St. crash high unemployment and a fading middle class. Good job GWB Mission Accomplished. And he never did get Osama bin Laden. Nice.
He wanted endless wars to line the pockets of his buddies, that's why he didn't get Bin Laden, even though there was and opportunity in 2006!
Makes me wonder about Norquist's possible involvement in the attack on our Embassy in Libya .
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would not put it past him seeing all his terrorist contacts in the middle east.
come to think of it how do we know he doesn't have a in with the radical Islamic side.
you know how they was screaming Huma - bro hood etc... and with their track record of projecting what it is they do.
I guess Norquist is just another one of those "random people"
Yep just a nobody who has their balls in a vice grip hold.
randomly of course
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Is Romney running loose with his scissors again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/amish-beard-cutting-case-verdict-watch_n_1896438.html
I want to see Paul Ryan get his hide tanned twice (read: losing twice) this November. Go Rob Zerban!
Roger That!!
Cynthia..... MSNBC is the motherload breeding grounds for instigating hate and confusion against anyone patriotic to America. They say there is a fool born every minute ,and MSNBC seem to find them all. It's really a shame that these leftwing haters enjoy the freedoms in this country, that men and women have died for over the last 250 years. Oh well, this the land of the free. So far!
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it will be ok, the boggy man isnt going to hurt you. but you need to maybe stop drinking the caffeinated tea.
pilot.... You prove my point.
This is an interesting piece from AmericanThinker about Obama's potentially deadly desire to stay in power. The liberals will snicker but as Edward Abbey stated "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Our military planners are openly discussing how to kill "Tea Party extremists" who have taken over a small town in the USA. Is this "operational lay-down" merely a "cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario," as described by The Washington Times, or is it something much more malevolent?
The military scenario appears in the July 25, 2012 issue of the respected Small Wars Journal and posits that, while Obama will be thrown out of office in 2012, ten years of race- and immigrant-bashing by "right-wing demagogues" will have whipped white Americans into gang-like attacks on non-whites.
Then, in a carefully planned operation, a Tea Party-inspired militia occupies the city hall in Darlington, South Carolina, disbands the city council, detains the mayor, and disarms the local police and/or "turns" policemen to its cause.
The article goes on to explain how true Americans will expect the military to efficiently kill, dissuade, and demoralize the "enemy" as effectively "as if it were acting overseas."
Apart from being, as the The Washington Times opined, "dark, pessimistic and wrongheaded," this scenario is noteworthy not only for the venomous description of the insurrectionists -- leaving little doubt about the authors' views of the American militia movement -- but also for the linkage of the militia with the Tea Party.
Moreover, it's no cartoon that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and John Adams would be on Janet Napolitano's "watch" list. Nor is it funny that today, as revealed by the Small Wars Journal, their actions in pushing back, in effectuating the Declaration of Independence, would be met with deadly military force.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/wargaming_termination_of_tea_party_extremists.html
American stinker where the garbage they write stinks so bad that it isn't fit to use on the floor for puppies to crap on.
american dream isn't at all for wealthy people!!!!!
the american dream is for the regular anyone to get to work and become something!! that could be wealthy (mostly desired) or successful, defined as a clerk at panera bread to the ceo of a company.
these clowns are so off>