A low-key U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan is focused on the job at hand, but is clearly leaving a door open for a White House run — at the top of the ticket this time.
“I’ve decided I will consider this later,” Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, told The Des Moines Register in an interview. “Once I’m through with this term, then I’m going to give a hard look at it.”
For now, Ryan, the 43-year-old chairman of the U.S. House committee that keeps a check on federal spending, is concentrating on the budget, immigration reform and health care policy — and “not worrying about my own personal ambitions or career moves,” he said.
Ryan, a Wisconsinite, is making his first trip back to politically important Iowa since the November general election. At a birthday fundraising bash for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Saturday night, Ryan will deliver the keynote speech to an anticipated crowd of 700. Branstad will be 67 on Sunday.
Iowa Republicans will be sizing up Ryan to see if he possesses the X-factor — the personality, the charisma, the presidential bearing — to be the top gun in 2016.
As the GOP struggles to deal with friction between its hard right and its center right, Ryan is seen as an interlocutor between the tea party in his chamber and congressional leadership.
Ryan kept a low profile in the controversial stalemate over whether to kneecap the Affordable Care Act, which tea party conservatives like Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz agitated for, or to keep the federal government functioning. Ryan later broke with his leadership to vote against the U.S. Senate deal to end the shutdown and avert a default on U.S. debt.
In an interview Monday, Ryan said he sees his party as one that appeals to everyone, because it stresses messages of “equality of opportunity, of free enterprise and limited governments, of personal responsibility.”Read the full story HERE.
I have no doubt Ryan is running in 2016. He's got a book coming out next summer that will be title, "Where Do We Go From Here?" and he hasn't been sitting still when it comes to raising money and courting Mitt Romney's former Big Money donors.
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8 comments:
He's also deciding whether to 'hold the door open' for ~ 11 million illegals too.
OR,,,
He's letting them think he's holding the door open.
If you BOTHER to check..he only brings immigration up when asked..He's not pushing it...There's a difference between being open to it and ACTUALLY ADVOCATING IT.
and BTW,
I'd take Ryan over Christie any day of the week and twice on Sunday..
"...There's a difference between being open to it and ACTUALLY ADVOCATING IT."
lol
so Cruz is 'open to it' too is he?
The amount of articles and talks he's done on amnesty is more than enough to watch him sink in the primaries- unless it's a strength in numbers thing and virtually every candidates is for it (which seems to be the case)
And btw, watch that big OB grin when his GOP buds pass it.
Good luck with your candidate
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/10/report-paul-ryan-is-co-writing-amnesty-bill-that-will-grant-citizenship-to-11-million-illegals/
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/paul-ryan-house-amnesty/2013/06/29/id/512593
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/26/Gutierrez-Paul-Ryan-My-Ally-in-Quest-to-Legalize-Illegals
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/2013/07/paul-ryans-defense-of-amnesty/
RomneyMan?...My candidate?
NO...He'll PEEL AWAY votes from Christie during the nomination process.
If he ONLY ACCOMPLISHED THAT...I'll be a HAPPY CAMPER!
Regarding the illegal immigration problem, I would prefer, at minimum, that some of them go home. They will not go home under the present system, because they don't want to go back through the ordeal of using coyotes etc. to get back in. It may be counterintuitive, but the way to do this, might be to give some of them green cards, while requiring that they can only be in America 120 days out of the year; somewhat similar to those 90 day visas they give to Eastern Europeans to work in the Atlantic coastal areas during summer. This way, the immigrants go home and many will stay there and find work. We can also get the fortified fence finished, as Romney promised to do during the campaign.
Just saying No and Stop will probably end up in defeat at the end of the process. That's been the pattern for half a century. I'm not suggesting we do this immediately, but it should be something that conservative think tanks and our representatives can be working on.
If we had done this some years back, the Country would be much better off today. We would have less illegals here today. Isn't that the bottom line? The system has to be regularized. We have to start thinking ahead and get conservative ideas and policies inserted into new immigration laws, rather than just getting steamrolled at some later point.
Ryan is my top choice for 2016, but I'm keeping an open mind.
-Martha
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