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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:05 PM Oct 2015

Paul Ryan to GOP: Prove That I値l Win and I値l Run for Speaker

Paul Ryan says that he doesn’t want to be the Speaker of the House, but he’s willing to give it a shot because his party needs him. But he has one condition that the Party has to meet before he officially decides to run – prove that he’ll win and he’s in. Can you get more pathetic than that?

Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Paul Ryan to GOP: Prove That I値l Win and I値l Run for Speaker (Original Post) GoLeft TV Oct 2015 OP
PUSSY ! V0ltairesGh0st Oct 2015 #1
Stop telling them to pull out of their dive!!! Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #2
IOW, "Will all the Republicans vote for me?" That's truly pathetic. Bucky Oct 2015 #3
Critique Jack Rabbit Oct 2015 #4
News flash- Ayn Randite mistrusts the free market of ideas in his "party". Snarkoleptic Oct 2015 #5
This is the most interesting political news going at the moment ffr Oct 2015 #6
If only... Martak Sarno Oct 2015 #7

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
3. IOW, "Will all the Republicans vote for me?" That's truly pathetic.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:51 PM
Oct 2015

Not just a sad comment for him, but the idea that the entire Republican caucus can't get behind a pretty conservative candidate who, as an unexpected bonus, can even speak clearly and is relatively sane.

Knucklehead City

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
4. Critique
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:04 PM
Oct 2015

I agree with much of what Mr. Cousins said. Under normal circumstances, I would consider Paul Ryan a poor choice to be either Speaker of the house or the guest speaker at the next get-together of the local Rotary Club. However, he has demonstrated that he is willing to compromise his sociopathic principles to move legislation and that's good thing, even if most of the even more extremely sociopathic Freedom Caucus would disagree.

I do not believe that Mr. Ryan is asking for the support of the major Republican caucuses, including the Freedom Caucus, merely to prove he can win. I don't think we need any proof that he could win. What Mr. Ryan wants is to know that nobody will try to stab him in the back for shaking hands with Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, which is something a Republican House speaker must do every now and then. Without that guarantee from all factions of the Party, he fears being the next House Speaker to resign his seat in Congress while singing "Zippity-Doo-Dah."

Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
5. News flash- Ayn Randite mistrusts the free market of ideas in his "party".
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:08 PM
Oct 2015

(If by party, one means loose group of grifters and vandals.)

ffr

(22,649 posts)
6. This is the most interesting political news going at the moment
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:39 PM
Oct 2015

Republicans eating their own. Like was said above, grifters and vandals.

Couldn't happen to a less accomplished bunch of idiots.

Martak Sarno

(77 posts)
7. If only...
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 09:25 AM
Oct 2015

Paul Ryan to GOP: Prove That I’ll Win and I’ll Run for Speaker

Gowdy:"Hey, Mitch! You still have those Diebold machines from the 2000 elections?"

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