"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
Posted on 08/22/2014 6:09:22 AM PDT by maggief
Mitt Romney on Thursday night said that Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) should make his own run for president in 2016.
"He's very generous. But I had my turn. It's his turn now," Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, said about his former vice presidential running mate.
Romney made the comments during a joint interview with Ryan on Fox News — their first since the failed campaign. The two later appeared at an event in Chicago, where Romney quizzed Ryan about his new book, "The Way Forward." During the interview, they were asked who would make a better president.
"I'll give it to him," Ryan said. Ryan has asserted he would like to see Romney run for president a third time, something the former Massachusetts governor has continually ruled out.
The interview also touched on President Obama's foreign policy and the events taking place in Ferguson, Mo.
Romney pointed to Hillary Clinton's disagreement with Obama about not arming Syrian rebels soon enough and her criticism that: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle."
Clinton later called Obama to assure him the comments were not an attack on his administration.
"I think Hillary Clinton tried to explain it by saying there wasn't a foreign policy in effect," Romney said. "And rarely did I agree with what Hillary Clinton had to say, but on that topic I think we agreed."
He said it is strange that Clinton, a likely candidate for president, is now trying to distance herself from the administration after serving as secretary of state for four years.
He also called the administration's attempted reset with Russia during Obama’s first term "one of the most embarrassing incidents in American foreign policy."
On the protests in Ferguson following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Romney said the Justice Department has had an "appropriate level of involvement."
"I think that the federal government needed to communicate that this is a high priority and provide confidence to the people in the community that this was not going to be swept under the rug," he said.
Ryan agreed, saying, "We all have to take a deep breath, not prejudge this situation and make sure that the truth comes out so that justice can be served."
NO!!!!!!!!!
HELL NO!
Sorry Mitt. Now that Paul is writing about how its wrong to distinguish between “makers” and “takers”, and how the GOP needs to move away from advocating cutting spending, I think I’ll pass. I’m going to find a candidate who is serious about turning off the national credit card and who doesn’t view “the rich” as a step below child molesters.
Sorry, Mitt...I would vote for you or Ryan over Obama or Clinton...but only as a last resort.
Any politian even hinting at amnesty for illegal liens loses my direct support in favor of candidates dedicated to the preservation of our Republic and sovereignty. Only voted for in the face of only even far worse a choice.
I pray God in Heaven we are not faced with that prospect again.
And does Ryan really think it’s going to get him one single Liberal to vote for him?
it’s no one’s TURN!
By that logic, isn't it Sarah Palin's turn now?
Taking turns - obviously everything Romney learned about politics he learned in kindergarten.
WT* ??!! “TURN” “TURN??!!” Oh hell no!!
“Ryan should run,” Romney says, as he begins to lay out his own vision for the future.
Go to hell.
What the hell? The antithesis of the old maxim “Winners get the write history,” is NOT true. Losers do NOT get to steer the future. Go away!
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
Paul ‘Citizenship for Illegals’ Ryan?
Paul ‘Couldn’t Out Debate Microcephalic Biden’ Ryan?
Sure. Why not? It’s his turn, I guess.
Delusional.
The guy could barely debate, is he kidding?
Paul ‘Screw the Veterans” Ryan?
It’s amazing how Ryan went from a supposedly conservative wunderkind to just another slimy deal-maker, but that’s where we are at. NO! NO! And once more for good measure: NO!
Because we need another unelectable Republican nominee.
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