OK, so let’s see you step up and go for the nomination. Put your actions where your mouth is. Its easy to sit back and bitch about how bad other people are, especially when you don’t put yourself out on the line. For all you sideliners out there saying, “what horrible choices”, okay, put your choice up there, and convince enough people to support them and win the nomination. Or do it yourself.
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I would support Ryan in a heartbeat, fully.
Look, my point is this. These are the guys who have stepped up to the plate and given it their best shot. They've done the hard work of campaigning. If people really think there are better candidates out there, then get them to run. Tell them to step up and take a shot. I've been on FR a long time and I have noticed that there are a lot of people who like to bitch and whine about how terrible our candidates are, but offer very little in the way of practical alternatives, either getting better people to run or running themselves. Some, a very few, have done so and they deserve credit for that. But by and large no one wants to step into the breach themselves and do it when it's easier to be a sideliner and piss and moan about how bad others are, even though they are the ones who have had the balls to step up.