GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan not getting the Irish support in ancestral home

I'm JUST an American of Irish descent but I am still angry at what the Cheney/Bush policies of deregulation, credit card wars and tax cuts did to both of our countries. If I lived in Ireland and saw from all the way across an ocean that Ryan/Romney intended to go back to those failed policies that helped cage the Celtic Tiger, I would dis-own Ryan too. If I could see that from way over on my green Island, it would amaze me that ANY Americans would be STUPID enough to vote to return to the disasterous years of 2000 - 20008. The only people who will be happy with a Ryan/Romney win are the gold buyers. (No disrespect to the wee folk!)

No one really thinks that native born Irish would support fratboy Ryan.

How opinionated the Irish are! You would think that they had the right to vote in U.S. elections. Seriously, who really cares what the Irish think? Don't they have enought problems on their plate with the collapse of the Irish economy, and i might add, i have not heard of their favourite Obama, rushing to help them with their self-inflicted wound.

Whats the beef about, Irish Nationals dont VOTE in the US

The fact that the native Irish buy into the hooey that Obummer is in any way shape or form "Irish" is a reflection of their incredible naivete and I'm sorry to say , stupidity. Obummer is about as "Irish" as Yasser Arafat.I don't know ANY Irish-American who doesn't laugh at this toally liberal-media created hogwash,pushed by Irish-Central and the like.Obummer, by his own admission identifies totally with his African roots.His administration has been a total catastrophe for any Irish-American who values his or her Catholicism, economic wellbeing,or hopes for the future of this once great country.These issues are what will determine this election , not some sentimental idiocy about whose great, great grandparent came from where.

ryan might have had a life becalmed - a record of some distinction until the Munster's Lurch character glommed on to him.

Americans should be concerned about how seriously other nations, especially our friends, allies, and enemies, take the foreign policies of the US President and the efforts of the Secretary of State's team. At this point also, after the shame of 8 Bush years, we need to cultivate renewed respect for America abroad. And we should always consider the global impact of US economic policy. Romney has elicited only mockery in Europe for his policy statements. Ryan would do even worse. The worst part is that they learn nothing from cultures different from their own.

Could it be that the ordinary residents of the Irish state are so filled with naïveié that they believe all the positive publicity given to Obama and the negativity heaped on Ryan by the media? In the part of Ireland north of the Border, many Unionists are probably more suppotive of Ryan's pro-life, pro-natural marriage stance than of Obama's positions on abortion and same-sex unions.

Not paying too much credence to this poll. It`s an Irish thing. If Ryan is on the successful end of the poll, expect the world media to descend on rural Kilkenny like white on rice, a pub there being renamed "The Wisconsin Arms", and some suitably awestruck public representatives clamouring for the Vice-President to immediately attend the many grand celebrations in his honour. Seriously, though. While the whole Obama/Moneygall phenomenon was a welcome shot in the arm for local tourism, it did lean a little towards the comical. Apart from the annual March observations, it can`t be claimed with gravity that Obama did much heavy lifting vis-a-vis relations with Ireland. The Immigration stalemate remains;boys and girls with jobs and families remain in a state of purgatory because Obama didn`t have the necessary personal skills, charm and political nous to bring the opposing Houses of Congress together;-and not just on Immigration, feel free to substitute your own important topic. One of his big election promises in `08 was that he`d close Guantanamo Bay.It`s an issue that didn`t over-exercise a lot of people, but still yet another broken undertaking. In my heart and soul, I don`t dislike the man, but there is much about him, his practices and convictions that give me serious pause. Oh, and the folksy persona just doesn`t cut it either! A failed Presidency, through and through. His last four years might have been more productive and fulfilling in Harvard, where Professors and their theories can less harm the public good.

The Irish in Ireland were never very fond of Republican presidents, vice-presidents or policies. Even Ronald Regan was famously nicknamed "Ronny-raygun" in reference to his Star Wars policy. Ryan elicits that same aversion to Republican conservatism, write-large, due to his extreme Ayn Rand inspired positions on economics and his extreme positions on contraception, which regardless of their attitudes on abortion are not shared by the majority of Irish women I have known.

Just the working Irish Americans will be voting for him.

Ryan even more to the right than Dick Cheney and I bet he's an equally lousy shot.

joan1954 "Obama has done nothing but to irritate those of us who see our spending power degenerate" Your spending power was effected (crashed) by the last fool in the White house. He's the one who accrued trillions in (financed) war debt and tax cuts. Maybe that's why the GOP didn't invite him to their convention!

Who cares what the Irish in Ireland think, they don't vote in our elections. Obama has done nothing but to irritate those of us who see our spending power degenerate.

Another non story by Kerry O'Shea. Who in Kilkenny will be voting on November 6th? Irish Catholics in America will go heavily for Paul Ryan on election day.