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Ikonoklast

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3. You got it in one.

Reply to montanacowboy (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:23 AM

Aug 2012

It will have people asking Ryan, "Why do you want to take away my Granny's Social Security and Medicare, and make her medical care *my* financial responsibility?"

Ryan will be a disaster, because his "Coupons!" answer will just piss people off.

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