Posted on 03/25/2016 9:12:11 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
A veteran lawmaker and close ally of Speaker Paul Ryan suggested Thursday the Wisconsin Republican could be a “figure of destiny” and possibly capture the GOP nomination in a chaotic contested convention.
“I take him at his word. I don’t think he has any desire to be the presidential nominee. If he did, he would have run for it,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said in an interview on C-SPAN's “Newsmakers.” “But sometimes you can be a figure of destiny, and he was very much that in the Speaker’s race.”
Last fall, after then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) resigned and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) abruptly dropped out of the race to replace him, many GOP colleagues turned to Ryan. He resisted at first, but after a week of deliberation, he finally agreed and won the top job in the House. “Frankly, it became evident he really was the only person that could have united the conference, gotten us through the end of last year, and got us off to a decent start this year,” Cole said.
For his part, Ryan, 46, has repeatedly said there is no scenario in which he will emerge from this summer’s Cleveland convention as the GOP nominee. As the ceremonial chairman of the July gathering, he said it’s his job to remain as neutral as Switzerland as his party picks its standard-bearer.
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Cruz really needs to stand down, and let Donald have the nomination.
Big time.
If the RNC/GOP do this they will create something new:
Kamikazi Voter
Electing every Democrat for every office in every election until there is no more GOP
GOP-RIP
Paul Ryan: our savior.
Last I looked he lost. VP campaign was invisible. At least the last Bush won.
Oh geez not this **** again, Hilda will have him for freakin’ breakfast. We need an alpha male with a pair to take on the Clinton-Mob-Tactics, he ain’t got it, end of story. Paaalease....
I agree and now I see that no matter what, the powers that be are going to get their amnesty, open borders and everything that goes with it.
How I wish it weren’t true, but seeing all the money and ‘power’ pushing Ted, it can’t be denied any longer.
Not just no, HELL NO!
If Ryan allows himself to be a tool for the GOPe to torpedo the people’s choice, whover it may be, then he will see a defeat in the general election that will be worse than Mondale’s.
Yep this is why the establishment are using cruz and his dumb voters.
Get that convention and then place someone like Ryan and even today one cruz supporter on here stated cruz will get enough delegates LOL.
Yes, this “genius” got smoked by Slow Joe in a debate. That takes a special kind of stupid to pull off.
Ryan, IMO, the next Obama. Who in the Hades thinks the American people will suck that up? Proof that the GOPe are as delusional as the RATs.
A veteran lawmaker and close ally of Speaker Paul Ryan suggested Thursday the Wisconsin Republican could be a “figure of destiny”
Shouldn’t this have a “barf alert”?
Clinton and her commie comrades would love this. She wouldn’t have to face Cruz or Trump in any debates. Rimshot Joe ate Ryan’s lunch in their “debate”. As a conservative American, I found that very humiliating.
I don’t see a problem here, Ryan can lose as easy as Cruz or Kasich.
Mr. niteowl77
You mean he will be “assigned” to run by the Uniparty
If Ryan steals, the election in 2016 will end up having Hillary win by biblical proportions.
Which, of course, is exactly what the GOP wants.
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