Ryan want to spend some time with his kids. What better than a job where you can work from home?

Please run Mr. Ryan, please run.

Misrepresentation and manipulation are an integral part of our political system and the biggest danger our nation faces is an electorate that can't distinguish between the politically expedient headline and the facts buried at the end of the article. Claiming seniors will die sooner because of Paul Ryan's budget plan is a reprehensible lie, but it makes a great headline and lots of folks will buy it.

Burton,

You want a convincing argument why Ryan should be the GOP nominee?

- Because he would absolutely crush Obama

He is smarter, more prepared and more articulate than the current occupant of the White House. He will not back down from Obama's straw man arguments and he will destroy him on the facts in a debate.

That's why.

I want Paul Ryan as my President.

Paul Ryan for President
Chris Christie for Vice President

Any objections?

This ticket would take 49 states.

The way it will be:

Sarah Palin will announce her intentions later in the primary season. Why? Because she is a Mamma Griz and she is waiting for just the right time to pounce.

Already you are seeing the blow-hards shooting themselves out of the race. I'm speaking of Trump, Newt, and Mitt. Trump and Huck are already gone, Newt and Mitt are as good as gone.

Palin doesn't need to seek name recognition like TimPaw, Herman Cann, and Bachmann. For better or worse, Palin's name is well known. So she won't have spend money on that like the others do. She will be able to save her money for the general election.

Palin's biggest nemesis, the media, has changed since 2008 too. They have en masse dropped any pretense of objectivity. It isn't just Palin who gets the "treatment" but the entire slate of GOP candidates. With implications of racism (most recently yesterday on MTP with Newt), the media has gone further off the rails to being on the offense in defense of Obama. The further into the primaries the more the media will be perceived as trying to determine the election instead of any pretense of objective reporting. Just wait until the primary debates!

Paul Ryan's plan is a good start, and I tend to agree with the fine fellow who confronted Newt in Iowa-he needs to quit now and stick to writing Civil War books.

I don't think Ryan's plan goes far enough. We need to get the Federal government out of the health care business. Medicare needs to become more subsidy based, and eventually turned over to the states for them to alter, administer, or eliminate as they see fit. Medicaid needs to go back to the states outright as well.

No one over 55 or so should see too many changes, they have paid into this boondoogle too long. But it needs to go away.

Same with Social Security. Gradually extend the retirement ages and reduce the benfits for those under 55 to a point where it doesn't exist anymore for those under 30 or 35. We aren't counting on it anyway.

The complete and utter thrashing Newt has taken in the past 24 hours should make it apparent to the GOP field that there is broad and very deep support for Paul Ryan and his PTP budget plan. My hope is that it convinces Rep. Ryan to run; however, at a minimum it serves notice to those candidates who would undermine him and the House members that have courageously stood with him on the budget.