Posted on 03/30/2012 5:23:23 AM PDT by true believer forever
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is expected to endorse Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney before Wisconsin's GOP primary next Tuesday, according to media reports.
Ryan would be the latest in a string of high-profile endorsements for Romney this week, as party leaders have increasingly coalesced around the former Massachusetts governor's campaign. The Wisconsin lawmaker would join popular freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and former president George H. W. Bush in signaling support for Romney this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Then you voted for Obama. Sleep well.
Just more evidence that Paul Ryan talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. When it comes down to voting on legislation, Ryan is no better than John Boehner. Ryan and Rubio both have nice haircuts and are telegenic, but they are establishment guys. Ryan’s reasoning for endorsing Romney is superficial; “we’ve got to coelesce; we all have to hold hands in order to beat Obama”. Santorum should call him out on this.
They’re reading the electoral math and can see that it’s virtually impossible for Santorum to win. There is still a small possibility for a brokered convention, which Newt is banking on).
So, they are hoping that with the endorsements, Romney will pull ahead. Which would then allow for him to begin campaigning against Obama.
Something that should have been started a few months ago.
Sooo, where will *YOU* be, if not with us?
And why would you do nothing to stop it?
Me too. Wouldn't you love to see Perry campaigning on SCOTUS steps? '10th Amendment, guys. Get it right!'
You know, just a thought here but Perry didn't quite, just suspended his campaign. What if .....
Obviously the fix was always in for Romney by the GOPE. It is a huge mistake, the end of the GOP, even if Romney is elected. Romney will be chewed up from the Left AND Right, he has no natural constituency that will fight for him, just triangulators.
I will personally go after him on the Mormon/God issues, just waiting for the election to end because Obama is truly Armageddon.
Yup. The “Taxed Enough Already” party and the candidates that focused on those issues where virulently attacked, at least here, by the “Praise Jeebus” crowd.
Palin has already said as much. On more than one occasion, Palin has said that she is ABO, that she will support the Republican nominee, and that that includes Romney. The key is the "ABO."
Given what we're left with, I would gladly support him again. Early on in the process, he was trashed mercilessly around here.
Paging Mr Smith. You’re flight to Washington,Dc is getting ready to depart...paging Mr Smith...
No. A vote that doesn’t support Romney in the general doesn’t magically transform into a vote for Obama, and people need to stop pushing the myth that it works that way. If the choices are 1 or 2 and I vote 3, I haven’t given a vote to anyone except 3, and nothing will change that.
Ryan and DeMint are politicians. They are better than some, but they are still politicians. Most of the conservatives who are backing Romney are doing so because they think he can win, because that’s what the consultants are telling them.
Looks like Paul Ryan isn't above changing the rules or telling a nontruth when it suits his fashion:
UPDATE: Ryan's aides had told reporters on Capitol Hill that his position as president of the RNC presidential trust, a sum of $21 million that the committee turns over to the nominee, had meant he couldn't endorse in the primary, making this a bit of a shift.
What is clear is that Romney's team is hoping for a win in Wisconsin that, whatever the margin, they can use to declare victory — and the primary over — in the hope of depressing Santorum's numbers in his home state. Santorum's aides have said he plans to keep fighting, that a number of May contests favor him. But if he truly faces the chance of losing Pennsylvania — and a poll this past week showed the race statistically tied between him and Romney there — Santorum could end up with a tough choice to make about his future.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/ryan-for-romney-119133.html
Doesn't anybody know as much as they think they do. I actually don't disagree with 90% of the rest of your post. I've heard similar from some offices and different talk from others I know. Some are good friends. Some are acquaintances that I see a few times a year on business.
However, here's my response to your friend in Minnesota. It's the same thing I asked some folks I know. My biggest gripe is budgetary.
[ “How long do you think any of us would be able to stay in office, if we were to always cater to the extreme fringe who represents less than 10% of the population?”]
What is extreme fringe about balancing the budget and not raising taxes? If the Ryan plan that is such a favorite among the center-right is considered very conservative today and likely unattainable, how did the fiscal culture move so far to the left from even the Clinton years when there was an almost balanced budget?
Oddly enough, the radical fringe rantings coming from this thread do not fully represent the base overall.
The problem I see here on this site and others is that people build up their people often to unreachable expectations until there's one bad decision, and then mercilessly destroy that person for not living up to them. In the alternative, they destroy everyone but that their person trying to clear the field for their candidate, who may not even be running.
Change the thinking of the population first, before you can have the perfect conservative world you dream of.
That's obvious, but I think there's been a real shift in the thinking of the population that has been missed, at least when it comes to fiscal issues.
Huh... Sounds exactly like our supporters of Santorum, when speaking against anyone else.
There is very little leadership in the republican party. They are all soley interested in advancing their own political careers. This endorsement is a prime example. Ryan’s record does not mesh with Romney’s at all. The only major republican with national name recognition outside the race who has endorsed anyone besides Romney is Jindal.
Stuck on Stupid. The GOP-e ship sailed on into the iceberg field.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A MURDERER IS LESS TO FEAR.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’m willing to wager that many “conservatives,” including some on here, will follow Paul Ryan’s lead and hold their nose for the father of socialized medicine in America. I’m sure those of you who cave will have John Boehner and Mitch McConnell’s gratitude for the camaraderie once again.
It is all personal gain. Nothing more, nothing less. There is probably about a 95% chance Romney is going to get the nomination, even if it goes to Tampa. If Ryan is going to advance, it is more advantageos to kiss the ring and endorse a sure thing rather than piss off and go against the establishment. It is pure cowardice and lack of leadership. I wish Jindal was eligible. He has been, off the top of my head, the only one that had the balls to go against Romney. I hope that wing of the party can stage a coup next go around because obviously the Bushes are still in charge at this point.
Me too. Wouldn't you love to see Perry campaigning on SCOTUS steps? '10th Amendment, guys. Get it right!'
You know, just a thought here but Perry didn't quit, just suspended his campaign. What if .....
An awful lot of people rip on Newt supporters, not dealing with reality, staying in long after he (and we) should have given up.. blah blah blah...
but as far as I am concerned, the other conservative candidate's supporters should have been more like the Newt supporters... Perry, whom I am hoping will be a VP or something very high for Newt, was in and out before anybody had even gotten to know him.
What it all tells me is a great portion of conservative republicans, or republicans who call themselves conservatives, don't stand or fight, can be run off by the media, and have no steadfastness in their bones.
Newt supporters, bloodied but unbowed, and surely soon to get more bloodied, do.
I know, and my comment wasn’t directed at you, but at any John Doe Freeper who might shamble by and try to warn me that not voting for Romney means “re-electing Obama!!!!1111!!eleventy111!”
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