Ryan isn't squishy. He deserves to have the focus on him. Bachmann's move seems a little self-serving to me, but hey, that's politics for ya.
And anyway, here I thought the tea party was a leaderless grass roots movement. Bachmann doesn't speak for the tea party. She's just another elected Republican.
Ryan doesn’t ‘deserve’ a thing,,, It’s clear that the repubs are moving hard to minimize tea. The repubs think tea will stay after getting dissed for two years. They are badly mistaken,,, this is the repubs last chance.
It is the GOP that is squishy. The TEA Party needs to establish that it is NOT fading away. Having a dynamic speaker like Bachmann expound on TEA Party beliefs is a bit different that crowning her absolute leader of all us Partiers. WE at the grass roots level need help.
We do lots of work, yes work, to estabish ourselves as a force that can hold local, state, and national elected types accountable. Bachmann helps us. Bachmann stays accountable.
‘just’ another republican,,,,, and that attitude means repubs intend to ignore tea so they can be repub. Go ahead,,,, watch what happens. I no longer see repubs as something to be tolerated in other to keep dems out. The repub agenda is meaningless to me,,,,,
I want true conservatism,,, no more co-opting and compromise.
I think history has shown that the Tea Party is "leaderless" until you put an attractive woman in front of it.... and then all the guys in the Tea Party movement start thinking with their little heads.
You never see such slavish devotion to anybody else....
From Wikipedia
Ryan was born in 1970. Received BA degree in economics and political science from Miami of Ohio, 1992.
“Ryan worked as an aide to U.S. Senator Bob Kasten beginning in 1992 and as legislative director for Sam Brownback of Kansas from 1995 to 1997. He worked as a speechwriter to “drug czar” William Bennett and to Jack Kemp during his run for the vice presidency.”
“Ryan was first elected to the House in 1998 when two-term incumbent Mark Neumann retired from his seat in order to make an unsuccessful bid for the Senate. Ryan won both a Republican primary over 29-year-old pianist Michael J. Logan of Twin Lakes, and the general election against Democratic opponent Lydia Spottswood.[24] Ryan successfully defended his seat against Democratic challenger Jeffrey C. Thomas in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.”
“Ryan defeated Democratic nominee Marge Krupp by a wide margin in the 2008 general election and Ryan defeated both Democratic nominee John Heckenlively and Libertarian nominee Joseph Kexel by a wide margin in the 2010 general election.”
“Ryan married Janna Little, a tax attorney, in December 2001. They live in Janesville with their three children: Elizabeth Anne Ryan, Charles Wilson Ryan, and Samuel Lowery Ryan. He is a practicing Roman Catholic and is a member of St. John Vianney’s Parish.”