Paul Ryan setting up a presidential run?

[Kondor3]

By the time Fearless Leader finishes hosing the country with his Hopey-Changey rope-a-dope...

It seems likely that The People will have had a bellyful of faux Socialism and incompetent foreign policy...

'Most ANY Republican with any semblance of leadership is going to look attractive...

I expect to see the modern-day equivalent of Reagan Democrats coming out to vote for the GOP candidate...

Brought to the surface by the miserable failures and lackluster performance and failed promises of the Obama years...

We should know more about this via the results of the November 2014 mid-terms...

The Pubs will almost certainly keep the House and they MAY take back the Senate...

If they DO, then Obama will have suffered TWO mid-term 'shellackings'...2010 and 2014...

And will be rendered largely paralyzed; over and above the usual fate of the Lame Duck...

Somehow, I don't think the next Congress is going to let him rule by Imperial Decree, after 2014...

The predicted (and likely) imminent and shattering collapse of ObamaCare will see Democrats scrambling to distance themselves from the President...

Pushing hard on so-called Immigration Reform (codespeak for Shamnesty) ought to put the cap on POPULAR disaffection, which will also cause some Dems to quietly slip over the side, and go quiet...

Between modest party-vote margins in the House and Senate after the 2014 mid-terms, and enough 'distanced/disaffected' Democrats, Congress may have enough voting muscle to keep the President on a very short leash, until he leaves, and this latest National Nightmare is behind us...

Frankly - and despite all Democrat protestations and good rationales to the contrary - that is why I am guessing that the Republicans will have it all after January 20, 2017 - the Oval Office, the Senate and the House - with only a Supreme Court Justice or two still on his or her feet as a vestige of the Obama years.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Either man would make a great President. Both are far better contenders than Romney was. I don't want to see another closet liberal running for the GOP. A significant number of Conservative voters did not bother to vote in 2012 because the GOP candidate was a liberal.

There is ample time between now and 2016. With the right strategy, either man, Paul Ryan or Ted Cruz can become the 2016 GOP candidate.

Cruz would lose the election, for sure, with less than 44% of the vote if that.

Ryan might draw as much as Romney.

Christie can win.

Christie can win swing states......the others can't

It's likely that Christie would lose his HOME state!

 

[Jarlaxle]

Cruz brings back far too many memories of McCarthy to win 270, and Ryan's association with the ideas of Ayn Rand will sink his hopes.

Both will get killed with youtube videos and sound bites

Your history will come back to haunt you

You mean like it did for your Messiah Obama?

Cruz and Ryan don't have the advantage of a gushing, fawning media fighting to see who will be the next one to kiss their asses.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Cruz would lose the election, for sure, with less than 44% of the vote if that.

Ryan might draw as much as Romney.

Christie can win.

Christie can win swing states......the others can't

It's likely that Christie would lose his HOME state!

 

[rightwinger]

Cruz would lose the election, for sure, with less than 44% of the vote if that.

Ryan might draw as much as Romney.

Christie can win.

Christie can win swing states......the others can't

It's likely that Christie would lose his HOME state!

Probably, just like every other Republican would lose NJ

But Christie can win Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nevada and Florida

Something Cruz and Paul can't (They would also lose NJ)

 

[rightwinger]

Both will get killed with youtube videos and sound bites

Your history will come back to haunt you

You mean like it did for your Messiah Obama?

Cruz and Ryan don't have the advantage of a gushing, fawning media fighting to see who will be the next one to kiss their asses.

You have a point?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Paul Ryan setting up a presidential run?

One fails to see why.

He’s among the most polarizing of potential GOP candidates.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Christie can win swing states......the others can't

It's likely that Christie would lose his HOME state!

Probably, just like every other Republican would lose NJ

But Christie can win Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nevada and Florida

Something Cruz and Paul can't (They would also lose NJ)

Agreed.

Provided Christie has the political wisdom to reject rightwing/TPM extremism early and often – and has the fortitude to hang tough as he loses most of the primaries in the South and Mountain West consequently.

Once the nominee, however, Christie will have no trouble winning the support of moderates, independents, and weak democrats come the GE.

 

[Dot Com]

Paul Ryan setting up a presidential run?

One fails to see why.

He’s among the most polarizing of potential GOP candidates.

yep. When someone says they forced all their staff to read Ayn Rand fiction in order to work in his taxpayer-funded office, that says alot about his level of maturity. To add frosting to the cake, he's a career, Washington-Insider as well.

 

[Jarlaxle]

You mean like it did for your Messiah Obama?

Cruz and Ryan don't have the advantage of a gushing, fawning media fighting to see who will be the next one to kiss their asses.

You have a point?

I was not addressing you, boy. If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. Now kindly fuck off!

 

[rightwinger]

Cruz and Ryan don't have the advantage of a gushing, fawning media fighting to see who will be the next one to kiss their asses.

You have a point?

I was not addressing you, boy. If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. Now kindly fuck off!

I detect someone is preparing to blame the media when they lose

 

[JoeB131]

Suddenly seeming cooperative and all over TV.

Possibly.

I think he has to show that he can govern pragmatically.

 

[JoeB131]

Paul Ryan setting up a presidential run?

One fails to see why.

He’s among the most polarizing of potential GOP candidates.

Yeah, but he could potentially overcome that.

He hasn't said anything really crazy, and he's even gotten some praise from the media for being "wonkish" (even though I think a lot of his budget numbers are pure fantasy, he makes them sound plausible.)

His downside is that he is only a Congressman, and I don't think we've elected a Congressman direct to the White House since the 19th century. (Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)

 

[JoeB131]

Christie can win swing states......the others can't

It's likely that Christie would lose his HOME state!

As much as I hate agreeing with Jack-Axle, he m ight have a point.

The Democrats have carried NJ in the last six presidential elections. It's a reliably blue state.

Just because Christie beat a weak democratic opponent after manipulating the special election so he wasn't running on the same ballot as Corey Booker, does not mean he will fare as well against an opponent who is actually going to, you know, fight back.