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."
The idea that there is a ‘turn’ is the problem. That is was ‘mitt’s turn’ is how we lost to Obama.
It is no one’s “turn”. Whoever wins wins. As to Ryan...no thanks, mitt.
Ryan is a sleazeball.
Sure. Why not. We are used to losing.
I have come to the same conclusion; in fact, even if the Republican party were merely incompetent (yet pursued their planks) we would see some progress on some planks at some point — we do not. It is therefore imminently reasonable to conclude that the Republican party is pursuing its true goals and is complicit in the corruption, malfeasance, and malevolence of DC.
He is an "elder statesman" and spokesman for the Republican party because he perfectly fits what the party is about.
It makes sense when you realize that they have no intention of pursuing the party's platform, which is only there to get votes — the NRA is a perfect analogy: all about getting funds and certainly not about to push for repeal of the GCA or NFA because, well, if they made progress they couldn't say Oh my God! They're getting ready to ban guns, you need to send money!
(The Republican party is exactly the same, for every platform plank.)
It's all explained in this brochure:
The Tao of Republican Orthodoxy
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//Whoever wins wins//
Oh please, last election the GOPe pushed Romney on us because it was his ‘turn’. Same with Dole and even Bush Jr. (who i kind of liked). It is orchestrated, and fed to us.
Romney NEVER should have won, but he did and we got Obama again.
Hey Romney lost and I don’t think he could win a second time around. As far as I am concerned Ryan is damaged goods.
Got my Imprimis from Hillsdale today. Paul Ryan speech. Ironic?
NO, AND H*LL NO!
Th reality remains “whoever wins wins”. That’s why we all should devote time, support, money, etc. to Conservative candidates at all levels.
It is the GOP.
Ryan??? BWAHAHAHA
I agree
I would take Romney over Ryan any day. But I hope we can get a conservative at the head of the ticket for a change.
Point taken! Thank you.
Ryan is used goods.
FRiend, that vote would be the near literal equivalent of voting to drink salt water when adrift at sea to quench your thirst, because there's no fresh water and you're about to die.
That is WHY it is such a desperately important thing to understand now, the importance of denying Romney or any like-socialist-lite RINO, any shot at a "Republican" victory, or at least any kind of meaningful one. Romney and that mindset as representative of "Republican" requires one to vote to drink salt water, and if they win, the consequences will be very like a real lifeboat scenario, of madness then death.
My vote will go elsewhere.
So presumably, you will vote for Romney, or Ryan, in 2016 if either of them gets the GOP nomination even though you voted "against" them in the primaries for a more conservative candidate.
Anyone who is conservative who will "hold your nose" in 2016, what are you preparing, or already prepared, to vote for? What isn't lost if Romney wins? What will America GET?
Because I'm pretty sure that that's the kind of choice we'll be seeing between Republican and Democrat presidential candidates in 2016. I only vote for, I know that voting "against" is a swirling sink to drowning.
Yeah, Ryan has now been sufficiently RINOized to be the next lamb offered up for slaughter.
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