A snap Red Keystone survey of GOP activists in Pennsylvania by Patch shows strong support for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s
Ryan as vice presidential nominee will help galvanize Republican voters in the Keystone State, according to more than two thirds of respondents.
More than half also say Ryan will help the GOP ticket win undecided voters.
Respondents aren’t concerned that Democrats can win by running against Ryan's existing budget plans and particularly his proposal for Medicare.
Several respondents noted that Ryan will help the GOP win young voters. But one Republican commented, “I don't believe that a VP pick ultimately changes elections. Perhaps the last time it did was in 1960.”
Here are other comments on Ryan from Pennsylvania Republicans who replied to an automated survey sent by Patch on Saturday:
- He is a man with a substantive fiscal plan, the best hope for a truly honest discussion of our fiscal problems. Unlike almost all other politicians, he calls a spade a spade.
- His 14 years in Congress gives insight, strength and balance to Romney's experience as a governor.
- It takes the focus of the race to the economy, which will help Romney.
- It sends a clear message that a President Romney will be serious about tackling the deficit.
- This may galvanize the ‘Audit the Fed’ crowd, but unless they come forward with real fiscal arguments that reasonable voters can accept, and convince people the deficit must be solved, they will not be able to get much traction in Pennsylvania.
- Rep. Ryan brings a clear vision to a campaign that, so far, had been severely lacking in detail.
- Returns discussion to fiscal policy, not tax returns.
- He is a fiscal conservative. He has the fullest understanding of any possible candidate of the breadth and scope of the fiscal disaster and the resulting crash in our economy and the crushing of our individual liberty and freedom.
Our surveys are not a scientific random sample of any larger population but rather an effort to listen to a swath of influential local political activists, party leaders and elected officials in Pennsylvania.
All of these individuals have agreed to participate in the surveys, although not all responded to Saturday's questions about U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan.
Patch will be conducting Red Keystone and Blue Keystone surveys throughout 2012 in hopes of determining the true sentiment of conservatives and liberals on the ground in Pennsylvania.
If you are an activist, party leader or elected official and would like to take part in occasional surveys that last just a few minutes, please email susan.koomar@patch.com
Ya... it's time that if you don't want to work, your life sucks. Right now, it doesn't suck for these people, and the rest of us are just supposed to throw more cash at them while they reproduce like rabbits.
Does your vision of America have a perpetual underclass that exists only to barely feed and house itself just so that you have an extra thousand dollars at the end of the year? What kind of arrogant, entitled human being even contains the levels of hateful bile to conjure up something like "sit around the apartment all day and service the men who pass through, then throw some Captain Crunch at the kids before they head out to spend all night on the streets making drug deals"? The future of humanity has no place for that sort of ignorant, divisive enmity.
Drive through Philly? Do it often. I see where they live. I see air conditioners. I see sat. dishes. I see them all running around with cell phones. What do you see?
What I say is the truth, and not being able to look at the truth means you can't fix the problem. You keep looking at the problem and say "what haven't we done for these people yet, that they continue to struggle". I look at is and say "What have we done to these people that has made their blight worse NOW than when we started 40 years ago to address this problem.". Your path means we ignore the real issues, and throw more money at it, making it an even bigger issue.
1. Bail out of the auto industry successful 2. Stocks are at a 3.5 year high at the moment 3. Very strong national defense record... IE Ossama Bin Laden 4. Economy not losing jobs anymore by 100,000s a month 5. More US oil production than any other time in US history (drill baby drill) 6. Allowed concealed weapons in national parks (gun control... pro NRA) 7. Affordable Care Act (bottom line more people will have healthcare than ever before. Look at most experts opinion on what will happen to costs if its repealed.) This act will eventually lower healthcare costs for the middle class. What he hasn't done- 1. Held Wall Street accountable for the economic colapse... IE no one really in jail 2. Closed Gitmo 3. Stand up to the special interest The only group dividing the country is the GOP and their vow to make the current president fail at any cost. In my opinion that is treasonous. This president has done a good job despite every attempt by the GOP to stop him. Can you actually articulate what policies you do not like and how you would change them?
I did not go to a pubic school. I did not take government loans. Sorry. Wrong on those counts. Look... your just a Marxist of the highest order... my money is not mine, it's partially yours. OK. Whatever. Still waiting for you plan to correct the poverty and lazy breeder situation. What is it. Take more of my money... oppsss, I mean your money..... no wait... I don't mean your money, I mean my money that is partially your money..... oh damn... this Marxism is so hard to figure out. How about if I just work hard and do everything that I am able to do, but I only ask back what I really need... does that sound good, Karl ?
America won't solve poverty until we have an abundance of living wage jobs available for everybody, and we won't have those jobs until we reduce dependency on foreign labor. The middle and upper classes can do that by paying way more for domestically produced goods and through increased taxes to support the inception of local business (which includes giving the unemployed enough money to support those businesses). So, yeah, more money will fix this, but not without some personal responsibility on the part of wage-earning Americans to keep their money in the US (or, at least, markets that US living wages are competitive in). What haven't we done for poor people? Kept jobs in America and their money in their own communities.
Where do people like you come from?
What's your solution... more tax dollars, right? More spending? Show me any evidence the money that has been spent so far has provided even an INCREMENTAL improvement in the dismal statistics of the poor. If it is working, the poor should be FAR better off then they were in the 60's.... they are WORSE off. The only model that works is one where you HAVE TO TAKE personal responsibility for yourself and your family. Once government steps in and takes, or tries to take, that responsibility, you get just what we have.... massive numbers of irresponsible people, living off the government. You just don't have the ability to look at things with an analytical mind. To you, it's always about taking more of somebodies money who produces, and GIVING it to somebody who does not, to MAKE THINGS FAIR, and improve their lives. You've actually accomplished the exact opposite over the last 40 years. Congrats.
Also, its not 'giving' or 'taking' money at all - it's all our money already, and it runs through the economy like blood in your circular system. We don't have a problem until it all clots somewhere or is thinned out as it is pumped into other systems - as long it's flowing freely within the body, the economy will be healthy. The government guarantees your money, your employer gives it to you, and you redistribute it into the economy - each dollar you spend into the system is no more or less valuable to the economy than each dollar spent into the system by the poorest person, regardless of its origin.
We must make education and support (as in freely available health care and good food) for children a priority if we are going to break the cycle of poverty. If we can rearrange social services to focus on children of lower means and integrate their mothers better into the social fabric of society so these kids grow up healthy, wanted and cared for, we would be in a much better place within a generation or two. It is not right that for many in our society, it is easier to go to prison than to attend college. The last figure I saw was that just over 50% of people pay nothing in Federal income taxes, especially after deductions are figured in for housing and children. It is ridiculous that anyone in that 50% would complain about high taxation rates of income. They are already paying nothing in Federal income taxes.