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Koch Privately Committed To Getting Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source
MSN News ^
| Apr 4, 2016
| Ryan Grim|Sam Stein
Posted on 04/04/2016 1:58:39 PM PDT by detective
Charles Koch is confident House Speaker Paul Ryan could emerge from the Republican National Convention as the party’s nominee if Donald Trump comes up at least 100 delegates shy, he has told friends privately.
Koch believes Ryan would be a “shoo-in” at a contested convention, should the campaign get to that point. Though Koch's wealth gives him significant influence within the Republican Party, it does not necessarily translate into skill in political prognostication. Still, he and his brother David are fond of Ryan. As a source close to the brothers told the Huffington Post, they appreciate the agenda he has pursued as speaker, including opposition to tax extenders and heightened warnings against corporate welfare -- positions that contrast with the admittedly vague portfolio pushed by Donald Trump.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; gaykkk; gopconvention; homosexualagenda; koch; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; ryan; ryan2016
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To: The Continental Op
The Republican National Committee would meet
en banc in Washington to pick the nominee. If the Republican nominee were to die or be forced out of the race before the election, the same procedure would apply.
Both parties have similar contingency plans to cover situations like this.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:36:21 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: detective
But, I thought the brokered/contested convention was to get Cruz in /s
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:41:10 PM PDT
by
stratboy
To: detective
Enough of a reason to oppose and despise Ryan.
To: mrsmel
We can thank the so-called Freedom Caucus for this. If they had stood firm against Ryan, his budget, and his selling out to Obama, nobody would be trying to frame the fraud as a conservative.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:50:04 PM PDT
by
grania
To: detective
I’m not surprised, I have never felt they would just sit this one out. I really expected them to get behind Walker in a big way, but I think they did the math and realized it just wasn’t a good investment.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:55:49 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: detective
Ryan is such a nothing.
Joe Biden beat him in a debate like a rented mule.
Obama beat him for 7 years and got every budget he wanted.
A complete zero.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:57:35 PM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: grania
I think that with the amnesty issue, which the GOP has never ceased to try to push through for decades now, that push finally came to shove and they were forced, starting in the last mid-terms, to take off the “conservative” mask. They’re not even pretending anymore, they finally have no more room to even pretend, so they’re throwing the cover of “conservatism” to the winds, now that the “two” parties are openly converging on the things which always mattered to them the most, globalist crony capitalism.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:57:54 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: grania
We can thank the so-called Freedom Caucus for this. If they had stood firm against Ryan, his budget, and his selling out to Obama, nobody would be trying to frame the fraud as a conservative.
THAT'S RIGHT !
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:59:37 PM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: maggief
They are waving America goodbye.
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posted on
04/04/2016 2:59:48 PM PDT
by
Mozilla
(Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
To: timestax
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:01:27 PM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: stephenjohnbanker
I hate the Koch bros!I like them and don't believe this article for a second.
To: eddie willers
Research is your friend. Try it.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:03:15 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: exit82; All
“Joe Biden beat him in a debate like a rented mule.
Obama beat him for 7 years and got every budget he wanted”
If they pick him, it is to LOSE on purpose.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:04:35 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: bubbacluck
what a beating he caught.
joe is a sleazy sinister weasel, but a very good debater and takes no prisoners. glad he’s not in the race.
as for ryan, I don’t see where he differs from the dems.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:12:25 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: detective
Why has Trump been so popular among Republican voters. Answer:anti cheap labor express and amnesty and trade deals that ship jobs over seas(at least the high paying ones, The low paying ones go to Mexicans). Who would be the worst person to chase all of these voters away. If you guessed Paul Ryan you guessed right! These people will have their corporotists and that is it. Everyone who voter for Trump would be right to just walk away. Trump recently has made a fool of himself and if they could find someone else WHO IS ON OUR SIDE they would be doing us a favor. But, that person is not Paul Ryan.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:35:38 PM PDT
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: dp0622
At a Trump rally in Ryan’s district Trump asked how they like Ryan?
Ryan got BOOOOED loudly.
He is getting primaried and if they pick him and not Trump I will vote Dem for the first time in over 35 years.
To: Zenjitsuman
he has NEVER, not once, shown a backbone
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:38:55 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: detective
I’ve added Paul Ryan to my Jeb! list of candidates who I will never vote for. Just not ever. Never.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:48:34 PM PDT
by
odawg
To: detective
So we beat both Koch brothers and Soros. Whatever it takes to get back our country.
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posted on
04/04/2016 3:53:29 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: detective
They will wish they never tried this, if true. Tey will wish they lost by Romney’s numbers.
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posted on
04/04/2016 4:03:47 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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