Scott Walker Recall: Paul Ryan Praises Governor

Mount Pleasant Patch:

When it comes the Wisconsin recall elections, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan says it's really all about courage.

"I think courage is on the ballot," he said in an interview with Patch Friday. "What I mean by that is Governor (Scott) Walker went after some of the root causes of the structural problems in the state budget."

People might not have liked the way Walker went about budget reform, Ryan added, but going after some of the causes of the state's deficit took a lot of guts.

Read the whole story at Mount Pleasant Patch

Comments

[kathteach]

03:34 PM on 05/12/2012

You want to know what courage is to vote for Walker or against Obama this year? I know MANY state workers (teachers and non-teachers) who are afraid to donate ten bucks to the GOP in any form because their names will be on a list in some teacher lounge (as happened in Monroe WI last Spring - those who donated to Walker in any amount had their names "outed" on a bulletin board in a faculty lounge). I know people who are terrified that their names NOT on the petition to recall Walker will be used against them socially or at work. I know businesses who are afraid that any donation of any kind to a GOP candidate will result in a boycott. I know many pro-Walker people who think that we show America that "what democracy looks like" is going to the ballot box to vote - once and honestly and not carrying water for unions who simply want their cash cow back - you know - all the money they used to take out of your paycheck even if you did not want to join a union.Yes - for a lot of people I know - the incredible (an UN-American in every way)pressure in Wisconsin to intimidate pro-Walker people is scary. And it takes complete courage to cast your one honest vote in spite of the consequences that might hurt your kids, your business and your own job.

[mowprincess]

07:25 AM on 05/12/2012

Ryan expects everyone to forget his worship of dystopian queen Ayn Rand... Sorry minion of the 1%... some of us are still getting educated in spite of the republican war on public education, women, and all things not white male.....

[MaxHeadroom]

12:27 AM on 05/06/2012

College dropout Scotty Boy isn't fit to work for Wal Mart as a greeter.

[EvgenyLibek]

12:49 PM on 05/05/2012

Forgive me if I don't trust Count Paul Ryan's numbers.

[bradenton]

12:45 PM on 05/05/2012

Walker and Ryan remind me of Abott and Costello.

[MaxHeadroom]

12:16 AM on 05/06/2012

Heckel and Jeckel

[mar1964]

11:00 AM on 05/05/2012

I hope the people of Wisconsin vote out both Walker and Ryan. I don't understand why the voters of the state put these two people in office in the first place. But I guess Wisconsin is a conservative state.

I live in a more Liberal state. Massachusetts. I'm working my tail off trying to help to get Elizabeth Warren into the US Senate. And I was a lifelong Republican, until the Tea Party came on the scene. The only reason why the polls are so close, here, is because Warren is a woman. The men here, conservative men that is, don't want to elect a woman into a major public office. We even have some Democratic politicians and former Democratic politicians, supporting Scott Brown, a "former underwear model". Can you believe it?

[mowprincess]

10:31 PM on 05/11/2012

Good luck.. I pray for Ms. Warren.. and anybody against Walker and Ryan...

[tnjr]

10:54 AM on 05/05/2012

Scott Walker's campaign slogan should be, Dems, buying the union vote with your tax dollars. That would hit home.

[Patriot86]

11:56 AM on 05/05/2012

Walker's campaign slogan should be we are number #1 in creating jobs...oh wait he did not create a single job but lost thousands...oops.

[sgraham59]

01:41 PM on 05/05/2012

You mean I sold the state to the highest bidder

[mowprincess]

10:32 PM on 05/11/2012

Or we are creating jobs in other states?

[MaxHeadroom]

12:17 AM on 05/06/2012

Only for you, and your little dog Toto.

[kevamy]

10:32 AM on 05/05/2012

How long will it be before the rats jump off the sinking ship that is Walker?????

[MaxHeadroom]

12:17 AM on 05/06/2012

Can you say: "John Doe Indictment"?

[Clevelandinwi]

10:18 AM on 05/05/2012

I despise these cowards when they talk about courage - it's the absolute height of hypocrisy. But people fall for it. Why?

[MaxHeadroom]

12:18 AM on 05/06/2012

Need you ask? This is a country of FOX low IQ viewers.

[They Call Me Mr Snark]

09:34 AM on 05/05/2012

These two mutants will both lose their elections.

[den1953]

09:19 AM on 05/05/2012

How much courage do you need when some groups like the Koch Brothers and ALEC are pushing and writing their own bills for you to sign as Governor, that isn't courage that is arrogance and no concern for the citizens of WI, like Ryan's budget he is phony and full of himself following someones agenda isn't courage it's being someones puppet that can't think for himself!

[nothingchanges]

09:13 AM on 05/05/2012

Union membership is at historic lows.

Executive compensation is at historic highs.

Wealth disparity is at record highs, now worse than it was during the "gilded age".

The rich are getting richer, and the rest of us get stuck with all the bills.

And it seems all the Republicans want to talk about is tax cuts for the rich, and busting the unions.

IMPO..........Republicans represent the interests of the wealthy, those who contribute to Republican campaigns, to the exclusion of all others. (the rest of us)

If they are only working for 1% of Americans, it seems logical to me that they should only be getting 1% of the popular vote.

"Fascism is Capitalism in decline"

Look around America, it's later than we think.

[idisVA]

09:10 AM on 05/05/2012

The Catholic Church is opposed to the Ryan-Romney Plan. It is considered inhumane

[den1953]

09:22 AM on 05/05/2012

When ALEC and the Koch Brothers suffer the mass exodus of other corporate owners people like Ryan and Walker will go away, because politicians like them will no longer have the power to push ALEC and the Koch Brothers agenda on the American people!

[idisVA]

01:00 PM on 05/05/2012

There are 150 corporations still with ALEC

[ralynb]

12:58 PM on 05/05/2012

i know,the right doesn't talk about that.i wonder why?

[idisVA]

09:07 AM on 05/05/2012

Paul Ryan is vulnerable in November.

[Patriot86]

11:57 AM on 05/05/2012

Really? Good news. I used to live in Janesville and they liked him there..don't know why.

[idisVA]

12:56 PM on 05/05/2012

His Medicare solution is his problem

[4 EYES]

11:14 PM on 05/05/2012

Rob Zerban from Kenosha has a bead on Ryan's job....8-)

[Countess]

08:50 AM on 05/05/2012

Listening to Ryan you would think that cutting programs for the most vulnerable members of society in order to feed the greed of the one percent is courageous but hopefully enough people in Wisconsin will think otherwise.

[idisVA]

09:08 AM on 05/05/2012

To them, cutting programs to the needy is courageous.

[MaxHeadroom]

12:19 AM on 05/06/2012

Gutless more the word.