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Lindsey Graham: Paul Ryan Is Presidential Material(backstabbers alert)
Brietbart ^ | 16 Dec 2013 | Mathew Boyle

Posted on 12/16/2013 12:27:05 PM PST by amnestynone

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he thinks that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is presidential material because of his work on the spending deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). “From my point of view, he's showing leadership," Graham said, according to the Huffington Post. “I mean, if you want to become president, maybe instead of trying to please every faction of your party, maybe you should show the country as a whole I can actually work with the other side on something important.” Huffington Post noted that Graham “added with a laugh” that he thinks “it's a unique way to become president, but I think it might actually work.” Ryan was the vice presidential nominee in last year’s failed bid by Mitt Romney to unseat incumbent President Barack Obama. He, like Graham, supports granting amnesty to America’s at least 11 million illegal aliens--a position that has the ability to undercut any GOP politician’s support from the base, as polls show it did to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Ryan is expected to attempt to champion an amnesty plan through the House in early 2014.

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KEYWORDS: amnesty; rino; ryan
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This just confirms how Ryan has becomea full corporatist backstabber.
1 posted on 12/16/2013 12:27:05 PM PST by amnestynone
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To: amnestynone

He is not presidential material. He has already alienated too many people with his talk about cutting entitlements.
The only thing Ryan is good for is derailing GOP chances.


2 posted on 12/16/2013 12:29:51 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: amnestynone

Good grief.


3 posted on 12/16/2013 12:30:05 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
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To: amnestynone

Is he going to run as a Democrat?


4 posted on 12/16/2013 12:31:29 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: amnestynone

Can you say; Kiss Of Death?


5 posted on 12/16/2013 12:32:08 PM PST by lee martell
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To: amnestynone

Graham and now Ryan aptly illustrate the whole flawed underpants gnome strategy of the GOPe, that somehow if we just be bipartisan and come to some deal just to have a deal, then well America will love us and vote for us because it shows we’re real nice guys.

Even of course if the deal is crap and does nothing to solve real problems, like this budget. Trying to win with sleight of hand and Madison Ave PR garbage of zero substance doesn’t impress the American voter and will not get their vote if you are a Republican.

This is their achilles heel and a great opportunity for any conservative opposition candidate in the primary to make hay.


6 posted on 12/16/2013 12:35:33 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: amnestynone

This from the guy who walked up a Glacier tourist path in Seward Alaska with Hillary Clinton and John McCain and was convinced to support Global Warming before heading off for a grilled Salmon dinner at our expense.


7 posted on 12/16/2013 12:36:31 PM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: amnestynone

Shouldn’t this little a$$ wipe be licking McCain’s underwear in the Ukraine?


8 posted on 12/16/2013 12:36:41 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: amnestynone

Graham really thinks that Ryan would be able to defeat Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primaries?


9 posted on 12/16/2013 12:37:05 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: amnestynone

pssst. Linsie is afraid of Cruz.


11 posted on 12/16/2013 12:40:12 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: lee martell

My first thought.


12 posted on 12/16/2013 12:41:08 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: amnestynone

Number of times in U.S. history a losing VP nominee was later elected President: one.


13 posted on 12/16/2013 12:42:03 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina ("The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819)
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To: amnestynone

Yep. He wasn’t even impressive VP material.

But anyone—and I mean anyone—whom Graham endorses is not fit for public office.


14 posted on 12/16/2013 12:42:46 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Junk Silver

LOL! Yep, he will be every bit as effective at that as he was in carrying Wisconsin for the RINO ticket. Hell, BO won his congressional district in 2012 and 2008.


15 posted on 12/16/2013 12:43:27 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: southernnorthcarolina
Yep. FDR in 1932, but he was elected four times. Richard Nixon may not have actually lost in 1960 (possible stolen election), but he, Grover Cleveland (1892), Andrew Jackson (1832) and Thomas Jefferson (1804) were the only three to lose presidential elections, then come back and win later.
16 posted on 12/16/2013 12:48:51 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: TADSLOS

“Shouldn’t this little a$$ wipe be licking McCain’s underwear in the Ukraine?”

Do you mean Aunt Lindsey licking mcCain? That would make sense. And I know right where he would like to lick him. But I suspect Aunt Lindsey would rather be licking cute Paul.


17 posted on 12/16/2013 12:53:06 PM PST by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing Corksucker.)
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To: upchuck

Grahamnesty’s at it again.


18 posted on 12/16/2013 12:54:46 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: amnestynone

Oh barf!!! The guy can’t even put together a budget that balances in less than 10 years predicated on a 5% unemployment rate.


19 posted on 12/16/2013 1:01:13 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: amnestynone

” - - - Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) signaled that Republicans would not raise the debt ceiling next year without some sort of concessions from Democrats - - - “

The key cave-in word in the above quote is the word “without.”

If without is removed, and the qualifying following dependent phrase, the statement becomes: “ - - - Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) signaled that Republicans would not raise the debt ceiling next year.”

Thus, Ryan has “signaled” that he is working a con on his loyal, and very gullible voters.

If the word “signaled” is replaced by “stated,” then we have a statement worthy of a true Federal Republican Politician: “ - - - Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) stated that Republicans would not raise the debt ceiling next year.”

This is a good object lesson for us Conservatives to consider at how eager the current RINO Establishment leadership is to surrender, cave-in or otherwise grovel at the feet of their betters (the Marxist Democrats).

Always willing to avoid a knock-down, drag out battle such as the 2012 Reid-Obama Controlled Partial Government shutdown, the Federal Congressional RINO Establishment continues to cave in to the loudest voices in Marxist Obama Administration, the Marxist Reid’s Senate, and the Leftstream Media.

Ryan’s double con is working as long as we Conservatives allow his Con to go un-noticed.


20 posted on 12/16/2013 1:02:27 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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