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Ryan on presidential speculation: 'Knock it off'
Associated Press ^
| Mar 17, 2016 1:59 PM EDT
| Andrew Taylor
Posted on 03/17/2016 2:24:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
House Speaker Paul Ryan has a message to everyone in the political chattering class whos speculating that he might emerge as the Republican nominee from a contested convention and save the party from front-runner Donald Trump: Knock it off.
The Wisconsin Republican, thrust into the speakership after predecessor John Boehner was squeezed out, said Thursday that he is not interested in being the savior of a GOP establishment appalled by Trump. The 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee reminded reporters that he decided more than a year ago to take a pass on a presidential bid.
It is not me, Ryan told reporters. I thought I was pretty clear.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brokeredconvention; knockitoff; paulryno; trump
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posted on
03/17/2016 2:24:38 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Blue Jays
You are a nasty little weasel, Paul Ryan, and we universally hate you.
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posted on
03/17/2016 2:28:48 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Olog-hai
Exactly what he said about speaker...
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posted on
03/17/2016 2:34:22 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: Olog-hai
I don’t think he’d be the one. For one thing, his personal presentation is even worse than that of Ted Cruz (who is getting better), so he’d make a lousy candidate. Hillary is unpleasant, but she is going to have a ton of built-in voters. Dems always vote for Dems, even if many of them voted for Trump, the most liberal of the “GOP” candidates, in the open primaries. But they won’t vote for him in the general election.
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posted on
03/17/2016 2:36:21 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Blue Jays
Damn right, it’s not you.
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posted on
03/17/2016 2:36:41 PM PDT
by
Zarro
(Ted Cruz 2016)
To: Olog-hai
"OK, I'll do it!"
To: Olog-hai
I wonder if anyone really cares what paulie Boehner has to say.
No one I know wanted him to be the speaker of the house.
He said he didn't want to be the speaker of the house.
Then listed his demands to become speaker of the house and there he was.
And looking up I see none other than Mitt Romney sitting there next to his wife looking on approvingly.
And of course mitt just had to come out and try to influence the nomination process.
It's not a question of if, it's a question of when.
If no one puts a stop to it...
To: Olog-hai
ooooohhhh, I BOW to the GREAT Paul RYAN.....NOT!!
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posted on
03/17/2016 4:04:41 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
03/17/2016 4:31:16 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: tumblindice
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posted on
03/17/2016 4:33:29 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
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