Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump

[RogerM]

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/paul-ryan-d

(CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he doesn't support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

"I'm just not ready to do that at this point. I'm not there right now," the Wisconsin Republican told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" in an interview.
Ryan's position makes him the highest-level GOP official to reject Trump since the real estate mogul became the last candidate standing in the party's nominating contest.
He said he hopes to eventually back Trump and "to be a part of this unifying process." The first moves, though, he said, must come from Trump.
Ryan said he wants Trump to unify "all wings of the Republican Party and the conservative movement," and then run a campaign that will allow Americans to "have something that they're proud to support and proud to be a part of."

Read more: CNN

[CincyDem]

1. Guess who won't be getting a "VP Call" for this round. lol. n/t

[malthaussen]

2. Not all of us have top staffs...

... it may take some a little longer than others to run the numbers on which course is best fitted to his ambitions.

-- Mal

[Renew Deal]

3. Ryan likes to feign disinterest and then change his mind.

Same thing he did with the House Speakers position and then running for president.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

5. Well in all fairness

He is a compulsive/serial liar.

[Tikki]

9. Absolutely...

Once the polling numbers comes in, ryan will be all over supporting therump if the repug

numbers are even slightly near the Democratic nominee's numbers.


Tikki

[Journeyman]

4. Someone's fishing for mo-o-oney . . .

He'll be ready once the check clears . . .

[hamsterjill]

6. He's still hoping they'll figure out a way for him to be the nominee.

I've never believed his "I'm not interested" whining.

[bigwillq]

7. Neither am I.

I never will.

[turbinetree]

8. What is remarkable is that the media---------------------------

is asking the question if they support this doofus, people keep forgetting that he is being investigated by the Attorney General of New York, for his business venture called Trump University---------------


And on top of this the house including old Ayn Rand Ryan, and the senate seats are in play this year and this doofus, is going to the head of there party---------------and he gets to determine how the apparatus is going to operate under and what his rules are




Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Equinox Moon]

10. ...and a sexual assualt civil law suit

from x 2 - 13 y/o girls that were sex slaves at the time. They have decided to sue 20 years later, which is now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&address=10141432846

[hibbing]

11. What about the racism? n/t

[Beacool]

12. That's going to be an interesting convention.

Several Republican leaders have already stated that they won't attend their convention.

Trump the unifier........

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Charles Pierce: How Paul Ryan Is Really Going to Let This Trump Thing Play Out

Being fluent by now in zombie-eyed granny-starver-speak, I would like to offer my services as translator.
...
Let's run all that through the trusty ZEGS-2000 Universal Translator and see what comes out.

"I'm going to come around on the vulgar talking yam, but I need a few weeks of completely undeserved approval to make sure my media-cultivated image as a serious person stays nice and shiny."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a44622/paul-ryan-trump-endorsement/

[mitty14u2]

14. If Trump Does Not Hit 1,237 Paul will Ride in to Save the GOP

Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now

WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Mr. Ryan, who is also chairman of the Republican National Convention, has repeatedly said he would support his party’s nominee. But he has carved out some terrain to differentiate himself, by insisting that House Republicans write their own policy agenda this year and by giving speeches that at times criticized Mr. Trump’s views. Mr. Ryan said Republicans needed a “standard-bearer” who embodied the party’s standards.

“I don’t want to underplay what he accomplished,” Mr. Ryan said in an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper. But he added, “We hope that our nominee aspires to be Lincoln and Reaganesque,” someone who “appeals to a vast majority of Americans.”

“I think conservatives want to know: Does he share our values and our principles?” he said. “There’s a lot of questions conservatives are going to want answers to.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump.html?_r=0

[fred v]

15. He's faking Moral Angst

The very same moral angst he will "struggle" with before he "reluctantly" accepts the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland.