Romney seeks distance from Ryan's budget plans

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By KASIE HUNT and KEN THOMAS

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) - In Paul Ryan's high-energy debut as Republican vice presidential candidate, Mitt Romney's campaign made one thing clear: Romney's ideas rule, not his running mate's.

Romney put gentle but unmistakable distance between his agenda and Ryan's hot-potato budget proposals on Sunday as the new team soaked up excitement from partisans in North Carolina and Ryan's home state of Wisconsin. But Democrats weren't about to let them off that hook.

President Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod deemed Ryan's budget "the Ryan-Romney plan" and cast the new addition to the Republican ticket as a "right wing ideologue."

"It is a pick that is meant to thrill the most strident voices in the Republican Party, but it's one that should trouble everybody else - the middle class, seniors, students," Axelrod said Sunday on CNN.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, and his vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrive at a campaign rally Sunday, August 12, 2012 in Mooresville, N.C. at the NASCAR Technical Institute. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Nope, sorry. He's your cross to bear now, Mittens.

[Graybeard]

2. But...but...it's "marvelous".

"Marvelous" Mitt said about the Ryan plan.

He throws his VP under the bus...in one day!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Sorry, Mittens.

You wanted Ryan *because* his budget made the teabaggers hot and hard. You can't disavow it now - you bought and paid for it, and now you own it.

[part man all 86]

4. How is that kill safety net thingy working out for you Rmoney?

[Progressive dog]

5. Shake that etch-a sketch Mittens

This is far beyond flip flopping, I can imagine you twirling on Rafalca.

[maxrandb]

6. RMoney:

"I nominated this guy because of his 'bold' budget proposal, but let's have a truce guys...no more discussion of the Ryan budget"

[russspeakeasy]

7. You'll have plenty of time ....

[JoePhilly]

8. Hasn't Mitt said he would have signed that Budget if he was President and it reached his desk?

I thought I saw that somewhere.

I hope I'm right, the ad would be clips of Obama ripping that budget apart, and then Romney saying he'd sign it as President.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. GOP Plan for the 1%: Tax Cuts Economic Crash Deflation

It's all part of a master plan. Now that they've stolen all the money
through tax cuts they give themselves more tax cuts, crash the economy
with spending cuts creating deflation. Who wins in a deflationary
environment? People with MONEY because the price of everything falls.
They win!! The whole thing is totally self-serving!

[amandabeech]

10. The way Rmoney picked Ryan is just bizarre.

Rmoney had plans to sit for an interview with Gwen Ifill of the Newshour on Saturday. July Woodruff announced the coup on the Friday Newshour with great pride on the score.

Two or three hours after the PBS announcement, the R campaign announces that it will announce the VP on Saturday. The Newshour interview is canceled.

Then by 11 pm, the news channels (particularly MSNBC with Chuck Todd) report that the pick will be Ryan. At 11 on a Friday night!

Then R&R, two healthy guys with no military experience, show up in front of a WWII battleship that simply isn't one of the Navy's prize vessels in an impromptu situation in which civilians were kept well away.

Then Rmoney backs away from Ryan's claim to fame, the budget that the Catholic Bishops condemned as being inconsistent with Catholic values.

This all sounds like Rmoney got a call from some big donor who said do it now or no money, or his polls were so bad that waiting until the weekday news cycle resumed was thought to be too late.

Like I wrote: bizarre.

[SunSeeker]

14. +1 nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. RR - the privatization twins

[sofa king]

12. The anchor chain is wrapped around his foot.

So let him try to get some distance. It will make it more amusing when the anchor drops.

[Yavin4]

13. Make Romney Commit to Ryan's Budget

If he does, then it's a disaster with seniors. If he doesn't then it's a disaster with the base.

Either way, it's a disaster.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Good luck with that...

You can't do a 180 on Ryan, Mittens... He's your guy now.

[AndyTiedye]

16. When You Embrace Someone Who is Touching the Third Rail, Guess What Happens