The sentiment is that Ryan is amenable to procedural changes, if not in complete agreement with all Freedom/TP policies.
I suspect Conservatives would be happy with a fair fight, and that they very well might succeed in some of those fights, if given a chance. Therefore, it's not necessary (nor possible, likely, obstructionist) to insist the speaker is in lockstep.
I think it's a wise position. I'd love to see a guy like Louie Gohmert as speaker, but that's not happening. Webster is totally a process guy, and has support for that reason. Chaffetz has not been forgiven for penalizing party insubordination on committee assignments, even though he recanted.
I don’t know enough about who could win or who couldn’t to predict. I just know that the line is out on Paul Ryan that he’s very weak on immigration which is a huge no-no for us.
I’m probably a bit idealistic about the speaker ship but I think if we don’t get a speaker who is conservative with those values we are selling out to the GOPe. I don’t want to do that.