Posted on 01/11/2016 4:09:28 PM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan may become the GOP establishment's 2016 candidate who can snatch the nomination or the leadership of the GOP away from pro-American populist Donald Trump, according to D.C. media chatter.
But the move - if it happens - may be too late.
Any fight between the increasingly popular Trump and the decreasingly popular Ryan would mark a last-ditch effort by the GOP's establishment-business-wing to deny any political power to its conservative voters, likely splitting the party just before the elections that will decide which party gets to control the White House and the U.S. Senate. It might also damage Ryan's long-term career plans, which are already being undermined by his unpopular policies and his complete failure in the 2016 budget negotiations, despite his support in the establishment media.
The media suggestions for Ryan suddenly appeared Sunday, Jan 10.
In a Daily Beast article about the media's desire for a political fight at the GOP convention, veteran reporter Jeff Greenfield casually suggested the GOP's establishment might sabotage Trump at the last moment by using the convention to give the nomination to Ryan, who was defeated in 2012 when he ran as the vice-president candidate with Gov. Mitt Romney.
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I doubt it. Ryan kisses places 0bama’s dog won’t lick.
You misspelled that. Here, let me fix it for you...
And it reeks of sulfer$hit.
I don’t think Ryan could beat Joy Behar at this point.
He needs to stay low key just to keep his job.
Million Dollar mansions will not save his ass from anything.
Enjoy it while you have it.
The Trump delegates need to show up at the convention in Cleveland armed.
LMMFAOokaywhateverlolGOPE...
It appears that this is why Ryan turn coated, because he was promised their backing to run for President and they likely made him think that they would make sure that he got it. This must have been the bribe.
Because Paul Ryan is so popular and trusted by the base? Heh...
But thanks for that clarification.;-)
Ryan is a Romneybot, he rolled over for that fellow RINO/GOP-er.
Which is why Trump will go to the people
Go Trump.
If it’s their plan, they’re grasping at straws.
I think they’re getting towards the end of the stages of mourning. They’re almost at acceptance. And then they’ll go into final stage of gop mourning: skulduggery.
Trump supporters need to have him challenge Ryan about the following material from a related thread.
Regardless that Speaker Ryan has heard his RINO colleagues read the Constitution out loud at the beginnings of the last three legislative sessions, he seems to have ”inadvertently overlooked” the following about his Omnibus spending bill. A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, based on the Courts statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November!
When patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be more willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
That f’ng dirt ball is in the same category as Jebby and Kasich. If he gets nominated I go third party.
Can he run for House and President at the same time? If not, he is gone.
>>Wish he hadn’t shaved the beard off. It was the only way you could tell he wasn’t Pelosi.
Now THAT’S funny!
Delusional blather
That plan, if it exists, won’t work.
Joe f’n BIDEN kicked Ryan’s ass in that VP debate. Ryan was outsmarted by a full on retard.
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