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.
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And he used the “it’s time to coalesce around a nominee”, “this has been such a brutal primary season”, “if we take it to the convention... blah blah blah..
First DeMint, now Ryan. Oh where have you gone Tea Party, where have you gone?
He could marry Romney. It does not matter.
NO ONE WILL VOTE FOR ROMNEY.
THESE are PAID ENDORSEMENTS. PAID.
to the inventor of RomneyCARE. NO SALE.
I think Obama is going to win and he is going to have coat tails. A lot of People who dislike Obama will just stay home, because they will dislike Romney more.
NO ONE WILL VOTE FOR ROMNEY.
THESE are PAID ENDORSEMENTS. PAID.
to the inventor of RomneyCARE. NO SALE.
Is there anyone who can explain to me what the heck is going on? I don't get this at all...
I just saw his half-hearted endorsement on FOX. The basis for his endorsement was money and organization. Oh and beating Obama (due to money and organization). No policies or anything specific. Don’t really know whaat to make of it.
First DeMint, now Ryan. Oh where have you gone Tea Party, where have you gone?
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Are you kidding? Some big wigs in the Tea Party already endorsed Romney.
Well, folks, I hope you will all be happy under the Obama regime.
We're all still out here. It's basically reality check time. We cannot allow obama to dig us in deeper than he already has. He is without a doubt deliberately dividing and deconstructing our country. Hating Romney and sitting this one out isn't going to help. If obama gets another four years (or more), there will be no turning back.
You've GOT to be correct about that paid endorsement crap, but ...
why are people we respect taking the bribe if that's true?
I don't get it, I tell ya' .
RE "Don't really know what to make of this" -- How about, the GOP has tentacles, embeds, promises of power that we have yet to uncover or imagine. And people are weak and easily bought off... even those in the Tea Party... I'm thinking DeMint in particular..
More evidence of the GOP-E full court press to try and force the Conservative base into line behind Romney. First DeMint, then Rubio, now Ryan.
Won't work.
This has nothing to do with "Hating Romney and sitting this one out isn't going to help." That debate doesn't start until after the convention. There is still time to capture events and change them... I support Newton Leroy Gingrich with all my heart, but will vote for Romney if he's on the ballot. I won't like it. I will do it. I consider it a duty I have to my country.
This is all very simple. Romney is going to be the nominee. All these politicians know this. They are merely angling for their cut should Romney actually win. It is self-serving. Nothing more.
The DC-based GOP apparatus has a new strategy to try and end the primaries and get the Conservative base on board with Romney by having Republicans with TEA Party credentials like DeMint, Rubio, and now Ryan to endorse him.
It started three weeks ago after Santorum swept the south and gave Romney a hard run in Illinois. It looked bad for Romney, and so this is how the party is stepping in to try and end it all. I can almost see the strategy sessions that went on in closed-door conference rooms at RNC headquarters, complete with PowerPoint presentations.
So does that mean just say yes we can to obama? Like it or not, we are at the crossroads. Saving America depends on it. I'll take my chances with Romney. Rather than focusing on Romney's past -- look at obama's present and what he's done to our beloved country. The raising of the gay rainbow flag by our military just about did it for me. The Tea Party folks endorsing Romney are an indication that he is going to have to govern more towards the right.
No, not everybody. We've NOT HEARD yet from Shirley, Rotney's twelfth cousin four times removed. I'm not yet on board with Rotney... but when Shirley gets in, WATCH OUT, I'll be heads over toes for him!
I didn’t leave the Tea Party. The Tea Party left me. LOLOL
Sorry, but there is no amount of begging and cajoling that will force me to vote for Romney, ever! If he is the nominee, and Obama goes on to win, then both the country and the GOP-E get the President they deserve.
IMHO, it’s as simple as everyone finally deciding to get behind the front-runner and starting to go after the bigger threat, Obama.
Honestly, there was nobody really strong running as the alternative to Romney. Nobody left you feeling confident. There were worries about both Santorum and Gingrich. It’s a shame that someone stronger wasn’t running....someone like DeMint himself.
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