Ryan brings the Tea Party to the G.O.P.

“The ascendency of Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket is a signal event for the Tea Party movement, which firmly counts him as one of their own.”
Source: New York Times

In addition to the Tea Party’s Party on the White House Lawn…

• He believes in the same top-down economic policies that crashed our economy
• His plan would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for millionaires
• He’d cut Pell grants, clean energy and innovation funding
• He would end Medicare as we know it
• He already co-sponsored a bill that would ban many forms of birth control
• According to the ACLU, he holds almost uniformly harmful views on five key civil liberties issues including a humane immigration policy, LGBT equality, reproductive rights, torture and indefinite detention and fair voting access.