Paul Ryan to recall his Irish immigrant roots at Republican Convention speech

Poor Congressman Ryan. When even Fox "News" is observing how poorly "fact checked" the acceptance speech was, it's time to forgo a few hours in the House Gym working on those admirable abs and spend a few more making sure your writers are doing their job. You were nominated for the pretty face and the right wing legislation the top nominee *hopes* the nation won't look too closely at, but a few more speeches where even the right wing press says you are dissimulating and it will all be for naught!

he's delusional if he thinks that alone is going to get him votes!! If you watch the feedback from the farse of a speech him and dumbo made last night, thats all i needed to know who not to vote for - its a bit like the irish government. a useless shower going forward - we'd be better off with 12 housewives running the White House - they at least are used to managing budgets, making ends meet and keeps the peace - I'm so sick of the rubbish on the adverts here i'm switching channels rather than listen to the guff coming out of them!!! Bush wasnt great (let's face it) but he's better than Romney ever will be - he's a complete airhead when it comes to public diplomacy!!

This is a FARSE tonight. These folks on telling thier story that is so ppe done

Ah here we go again! Anyone who votes for someone because they know someone irish is a tool. Ryan, You are not irish! Your family member who left here was, you are not!

Nice call, Cathy. Ryan didn't mention Ireland once. Where did you get you prognostication skills?

If I was totally uninformed or if I had a vested interest in his agenda, I would call Ryan's speech inspiring. Too bad for him so many people have seen behind the GOP curtain and now realize that the "Wizard" is a sham. When your whole reason for being is a LIE, when every point you try to make is a LIE, it will be hard to convince intelligent, informed, independent voters to follow you Paul.

Ryan isn't Irish - he has no heart...

BulldogMania "President Romney can restore the nation to job creation and wealth creation" You must be jokin...Romney, the Gordon Gecko of Wall St who made his "major" money breaking down troubled companies and raiding them for profits is going to restore the nation? He'll restore the nation ok, to that of the ilk like himself. And about the Rape of medicare that has been found to be an outright lie like much of the GOP platform. The medicare gains (Ryan mentioned last night) will be achieved by systems to be put in place to make hospital and healthcare facilities more cost effective.

Great speech, but I wish he would have talked more about the RAPE of Medicare. My mother will be losing her Medicare Advantage insurance, along with 12 MILLION other seniors. Obama has been a total failure...has provided ZERO leadership on the issues that matter to America...JOBS JOBS JOBS! I'm disappointed the Republicans haven't been doing a better job highlighting the failures of the Obama administration. They have a HORRIBLE record and everyone knows it...I guess that's why the mainstream liberal media keeps talking about extreme cases of the radical social issues of the dumbocrats...like calling abortion healthcare and anal sex true love deserving of marriage. NONE of these things matter if no one has a job! We are headed for the cliff at 80 mph...some say it's already too late, the damage done by Obama has been too much...but I'm hopeful President Romney can restore the nation to job creation and wealth creation. Who needs a safety net if you have a job! Do we need a safety net...of course...but we don't need a net that holds everyone. Some of us have to work...but to do that we need JOBS!

Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention contained several false claims and misleading statements. First he Accused President Obama’s health care law of funneling money away from Medicare “at the expense of the elderly.” In fact, Medicare’s chief actuary says the law “substantially improves” the system’s finances, and Ryan himself has embraced the same savings. He Accused Obama of doing “exactly nothing” about recommendations of a bipartisan deficit commission — which Ryan himself helped scuttle. Also claimed the American people were “cut out” of stimulus spending. Actually, more than a quarter of all stimulus dollars went for tax relief for workers. Faulted Obama for failing to deliver a 2008 campaign promise to keep a Wisconsin plant open. It closed less than a month before Obama took office. Ryan Blamed Obama for the loss of a AAA credit rating for the U.S. Actually, Standard & Poor’s blamed the downgrade on the uncompromising stands of both Republicans and Democrats.

Note that Ryan never mentioned Ireland or the Famine, or slavery, or chains. Not once. He just spoke of America and OUR future. God Bless Him.

EphraimKibbey So true about McCain and war.

Something else for me to worry about! I just watched McCain's speech. Normally I have high regard for his opinions though not always his solutions. This time I was completely shocked and, by the scant applause, so were many in the room. By my count, he mentioned 5 places that we should have already sent our troops. He thinks we should be in FIVE MORE WARS! How many more American lives do the GOP want sacrificed on the Neocon alter? I could just pass it off as his view alone except that Romney/Ryan have about 15 foreign policy advisors that are retreaded W foreign policy people. It looks like the GOP not only want to take us back to Cheney/Bush economically but also militarily. Combine that with their social policies out of the 50's and we have a very backward looking party platform. I think the country is ready to throw off the shackles of the do nothing congress and move forward to a new age of prosperity not back to failed policies that we know have disasterous consequences.

Paul Ryan's immigrant forefathers were driven out of Ireland by the kind of top-down economic polices that their great grandson is now pursuing. And of course he's anti-immigrant too. His ancestors have had no end of trouble from immigrants ever since they came to this country, I imagine.

Thanks mayoman...and a good night to you.