Romney Comms: U.S. Representative Paul Ryan: 'Hard Work, Not Redistribution, Built Our Economy'

Source:Romney Comms- U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (Republican, Wisconsin) 2012 Republican Vice Presidential nominee.

"Paul Ryan: Hard Work, Not Redistribution, Built Our Economy" 

From Romney Comms

I'm thinking Representative Paul Ryan already knows this, but he's a hyper-partisan, Republican politician, so for political reasons tends to ignore this. But everything that government does is a form a wealth redistribution. 

Looks like Representative Ryan was campaigning at an American military base. Guess what, taxes that were paid in another part of the country, like in a different state, region even, were used to pay and keep that military case up and running, and to pay all the salaries and benefits of everyone that works at that military base. It's just sloppy, political rhetoric for Paul Ryan or any other politician to say that they're against wealth redistribution, when they're obviously not.

Romney Comms: U.S. Representative Paul Ryan: 'PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH WORKS'

Source:Romney Comms- U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (Republican, Wisconsin) 2012 Republican Party Vice Presidential nominee.

"PAUL RYAN: "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH WORKS" 

From Romney Comms

Looks like Representative Paul Ryan has his Republican, foreign policy and national security talkings points locked down. In his entire 14 years in the House, his whole background and resume there has been about fiscal and economy policy, social welfare. Not foreign policy and national security, even though as Chairman of the Budget Committee, I'm sure he has some awareness about the defense budget and how our defense tax dollars are spent, you can't seriously call him a foreign policy and national security expert. But apparently he has heard about peace through strength at some point during his time in Washington.

EFAN 2011: Richard Nixon's- 1968 GOP Presidential Acceptance Speech: The Silent Majority

Source:EFAN- Richard Nixon, accepting the Republican Party's 1968 nomination for President.

"Here is Nixon's Acceptance Speech from the 68 RNC. He was the man to beat in 68...

I also have radio coverage of the roll call that I will upload here in a bit."

From EFAN

The 1960s was actually a pretty good time for America even though we were very divided as a country over Vietnam, civil rights and the Great Society. 

The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 which outlawed racial discrimination under law in the United States. 

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Which meant no longer would be people be denied their right to vote based on their race. 

The Fair Housing Law was passed in 1968. Which meant no longer would people be allowed to deny other people housing based on race. 

Medicare was passed in 1965, which meant seniors would always have guaranteed health insurance in America.

The economy boomed in the 1960s. The Federal Government was actually able to balanced its budget during this decade. 

But the 1960s was also one of the most turbulent and divisive decades we've ever had in America. Four political leaders were assassinated in this decade: President Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin L. King and of course Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. King and Kennedy in 68, within two months, April and June. Hundreds of thousands of Americans dying or injured in the Vietnam War, the South moving from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican in 1968.

Richard Nixon understood the mood of America about as well as any politician we've ever produced. And understood where the country was and where they were going and how he could fit in that into his politics as far as what he believed and what he wanted to accomplish. And he could make that work politically for him and the Republican Party. This whole speech is a perfect example of that, where he says: "That a country thats run by the rule of law, has lawlessness throughout the country." He's talking about the riots in our big cities like Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and others.

Richard Nixon also said in 1968: "When the a country with the greatest military in the world gets bogged down in a civil war in a third world country (he's talking about the Vietnam War) when these things happen its time for a change in leadership in the greatest country in the world." Meaning the United States. 

Dick Nixon laid out where the country was, all the divisiveness that the country was going through. And what wasn't working in the country and saying it's time for a change in leadership in America. And saying he's the one meaning who will bring that new leadership that will move America forward.

CBS News: 1976 Republican Party Convention

Source:CBS News- covering the 1976 Republican Party convention, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.

"1976 GOP Convention. Lot of drama."

From Mike Gardner

I think what this was about is that President Gerald Ford (Republican, Michigan) had a slight lead on delegates, but enough to win the nomination for President, if the Republican Convention just voted. But what Ronald Reagan's campaign was trying to do was to get more delegates and try to switch votes from Ford to Reagan and win the nomination that way. 

President Ford got off to a great start in 1976 as far as winning Republican delegates, putting him in strong shape to win the nomination. And then Governor Reagan came on late to make this nomination fight not just close, but close enough to essentially split the Republican Party between establishment Conservatives and Progressives Republicans for Ford and populist Republicans for Reagan.

Reagan Foundation: Ronald Reagan- ‘A Time For a Choosing (1964)’

Source:Reagan Foundation- private citizen Ronald W. Reagan speaking in favor of Senator Barry Goldwater, in 1964.

“The Speech” is what Ronald Reagan called it. Today we call it, “A Time for Choosing,” and it was a pivotal turning point in Ronald Reagan’s life.

Ronald Reagan began a long side-career of public speaking as his acting career closed out. He traveled across the country meeting Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce and any other civic-minded local groups. This continued and intensified during his service as the General Electric spokesperson while hosting their sponsored television series. “The Speech” was delivered in various forms and to different audiences as each word was honed, measured and memorized.

During the 1964 Presidential campaign, Republican party officials in California, who knew Reagan’s powerful message and delivery, asked him to film a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater. The speech was aired on October 27, 1964 and it was electrifying. Donations to the Republican party and candidates increased dramatically.

The Republican Party took note and they targeted Reagan as a candidate from that point forward. He agreed in 1966 to run for Governor of California. He won two terms, and eventually won the Presidency.”

From the Reagan Foundation 

The so-called Reagan Revolution of 1980, that brought Ronald Reagan to the presidency and thirty or so new House Republicans and the Senate Republicans winning control of the Senate for the first time since 1952, actually started in 1964 under Barry Goldwater. Ron Reagan just had the personality to sell American conservatism to the country and show Americans that it wasn’t scary. It took really sixteen years for the Republican Party to control both the White House and at least one chamber of Congress.

But all of these steps were put in place starting in 1964, when the message was put together. When Republicans started winning in the South consistently in 1966, a big reason Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968, won a landslide in 1972, because Southerners were becoming Republicans. The Democratic Party was losing its grasp on the South and hasn’t gotten it back since. Congressional Republicans lost overwhelmingly in Congress in 1974, but a lot of that had to do with Watergate.

Republicans lost again in at least partially due to Watergate 1976 and Ron Reagan ran for President in 1976. And came damn close to winning the Republican nomination from President Gerry Ford and kept this message of individual freedom and personal responsibility alive. The tax revolt of the late 1970s, especially in California, all of these things were part of the Goldwater/Reagan Revolution. Thanks to Barry Goldwater, the Republican Party was changing from a yes fiscally conservative, socially moderate party.

The GOP was mostly in the Northeast and Midwest and became a party that was able to communicate this message across the country and take this message to the South. The only thing with the South, is they brought in the Religious-Right to go along with Republicans who are more libertarian than statist when it comes to social issues. But the GOP understood that they were simply too small and had to grow their base to compete with Democrats in the future. 

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CNBC: 'Paul Ryan Talks Health Care With Howard Dean & John Sheils'

Source:CNBC- Governor Howard Dean (Democrat, Vermont) John Sheils and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (Republican, Wisconsin) debating health care reform on CNBC.

"Paul Ryan: Governor, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] is telling us that the House bill doesn't address health inflation. Youve been very outspoken on that, and I want to compliment you on that, but the House bill doesnt address health inflation. According to the CBO, the expenses of the public plan go up 8% a year - thats more than even Medicare and Medicaid grow.

So what the CBO is telling us is were creating a huge new unfunded liability that even if this thing is paid for in the first ten years [which it wont be], after that youre going to a massive new unpaid-for entitlement on top of all the other ones weve already got. It wont address health inflation.

I worry that were not actually addressing the root cause of our problem, which is health inflation, which you and I really want to tackle." 

From Speaker Paul Ryan

I think the key points here are choice, competition, and a level playing field when it comes to health care and health insurance reform in America. And you could do that with allowing non-seniors to pay into Medicare and use it as their main health insurer, as well as letting the states, instead of the Feds, manage this expansion of Medicare for their non-seniors, including young working adults, unemployed workers, as well as juveniles. But that this Medicare expansion or public option has to compete fairly and play by the same rules as every non-profit health insurer in America.

Richard Nixon Foundation: 'President Richard Nixon's 1974 State of The Union Speech'

Source:Richard Nixon Foundation- President Richard M. Nixon (Republican, California) addressing a joint session of Congress in 1974. Vice President Gerald R. Ford (Republican, Michigan) and Speaker of the House (Democrat, Oklahoma) in the background.

"January 30, 1974: President Nixon gives the State of the Union address." 

From the Richard Nixon Foundation

I'll give President Nixon credit for one thing here. Similar to his White House farewell address, it must have taken a lot of personal strength and courage to give this speech, with all the pressure that he was under at this point where he knew that this could be the very last time he addressed Congress about anything, even though he still had 3 years left on his 2nd term.

President Nixon's 1974 State of The Union sounds to me more like a closing argument that he was trying to make to the American people in why he should remain President and not be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate, essentially fired by Congress. 

What President Nixon is telling Americans is where the country was when he gave his first State of The Union address in 1969 and where the country was five years later. And what he would wanted to do as President if he were allowed to remain as President. It was the old don't give up or surrender until you've thrown all of your punches and have shot all of your bullets approach.

But I think as smart as a politician as Richard Nixon was, he probably knew that his days as President were numbered, even though he still had things on his agenda that he wanted to accomplish, At this point he still had three years to go on his 2nd term and still had health care reform, what later became known as Welfare to Work, energy independence and negotiating a peace deal between Israel and Egypt that actually started under the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. But with all of the evidence that was about to come out as it related to the Watergate scandal, that was not going to happen.

President Nixon was trying to make the case that now it's not the time to remove the President, with all of that he's accomplished. And everything that he still wanted to accomplish for the country. That instead we should come together as a country and get together to finish the work of the country, instead of firing the current President and once again starting over and trying again. But that was not going to happen. 

By early 74, the President was fighting not just Congress, but now the U.S. Supreme Court, that ordered him to give up tapes that proved his involvement in the Watergate coverup. So his days as President were certainly numbered at this point.