Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-college-football-wisconsin-ohio-state-145442158--election.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ti...ion.html</a> Really Paul, you're worried about alienating voters in Ohio if you picked Wisconsin to win the Ohio State game. First of all if people are basing their vote on who you selected for a football game that's pretty pathetic. And two even if you did pick the Badgers to win I don't think it would really matter. The People's Republic ain't going suddenly pull for you.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Loved the Wisconsin Democrats' response: "In Wisconsin, we are Badgers, not weasels."
Originally Posted By skinnerbox LOL! What a great response! Looks like Ryan is such a weasel. Jiminy Christmas! You're from Wisconsin, dude! Show a little loyalty to the home team! Unbelievable. I really hope the constituents in his Congressional district take note. He's more concerned about what voters in Ohio think of him, than what the voters in his district think of him. Which means he cares less about his Congressional job than being Vice President. I have an easy solution to that problem. VOTE THE BUM OUT!!
Originally Posted By utahjosh Why in the world would Matt Lauer press him after his more than satisfactory answer? If there is 1 person watching who will not vote for him for saying 1 team would win, why would he do that? And believe me - there are people who would let something like that influence their vote.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 All he had to say was "Look, I'm a loyal Badgers fan, everybody knows that.". Ohio fans would sort of instantly forgive that-- much more so than the weasley trying-to have-it-both-ways answer he gave. It was a very Romney-like answer though; give it that.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I would like President Obama to go to a Packer's game and say the Bears are going to win... He doesn't have the balls...
Originally Posted By hopemax Although he didn't attend the game and it was in Chicago he did pick the Bears over the Packers in the 2011 NFC championship game. <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/21/barack-obama-picks-bears-over-packers/" target="_blank">http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01...packers/</a> Which did not go over well in the Packers locker room <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/01/charles-woodson-packers-call-out-barack-obama-over-bears-pick/1#.UH9WP2_A8sc" target="_blank">http://content.usatoday.com/co...WP2_A8sc</a>
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 He didn't say it, his spokesman did... It was a loaded question from the reporter hoping to make Ryan look bad...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It was a silly question and a fairly typical one. Ryan could have just stuck with team loyalty and no one would have minded. Instead, he tried to have it both ways and, I'm guessing, managed to win no fans in Ohio while losing some in WI. And he has nobody to blame for that but himself.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 If he would have picked Wisconsin, the media would have jumped on it... saying he doesn't respect Ohio, if he chose Ohio, he would have been labeled a traitor by the media.. Either way he was screwed... When President Obama "picked" Chicago over Green Bay, he did so via a spokesman... Big man there...
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Ryan is really showing his true colors. All that matters to him is appearance, not substance, and he'll say anything to be popular with certain people. It's amazing the Republicans cannot come up with something better than the current ticket. Amazing.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost You folks are running out of useful things to argue about apparently! Let's boil it down to this...no one outside of Wisconsin gives a rats tail what team he backs. Even those in Wisconsin have very little concern about it. There is no reason why this should have become political at all...none! You guys are just making it one. A little maturity here would make future arguments much more worthy.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "If he would have picked Wisconsin, the media would have jumped on it... saying he doesn't respect Ohio" No. If he'd said "I'm a Wisconsin fan, I've always been a Wisconsin fan, and I'll always be a Wisconsin fan," that would have been the end of it. Those who care about sports appreciate that kind of loyalty, no one in Ohio would have thought twice, and those who don't care about sports would continue not to care. There was a simple answer here. Ryan managed to mangle it. (and btw, this particular Bears thing may have gone through a spokesman, but I've heard him personally on several occasions speak passionately about the White Sox and Bulls. And I don't think fans of competing teams thought twice about it.)
