When will Paul Ryan run for POTUS?
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Ilhan Apologist
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« on: May 21, 2019, 11:34:51 PM »
« edited: May 21, 2019, 11:43:06 PM by Glowfish »

I'm voting 2028

Edit: can someone please move this to trends?
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2019, 11:10:57 AM »

He came close in 2012, and ran with unpopular Romney as Veep, who won't become the GOP nominee for Prez
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2019, 11:00:23 AM »

Never.  Becoming SOTH invariably torpedoes any credible presidential aspirations, and Ryan knew that when he took the job.
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2019, 11:53:21 PM »

Never.  Becoming SOTH invariably torpedoes any credible presidential aspirations, and Ryan knew that when he took the job.

Sometimes I wonder if that would still be the case if Henry Clay had won any of his multiple failed campaigns. I know Polk won, but he was Speaker for a much shorter time and to this day he is the only Speaker to become president. Seems strange that the person who’s second-in-line to the presidency and arguably the second-most powerful person in the government is so rarely considered for the job. I guess they take a lot of flak nationally (certainly Pelosi has), but this has been the case since long before our current age of national polarization and mass media. It almost seems like tradition at this point that SOTH just never runs for president. And maybe those who take the job are less likely to have presidential aspirations, and that’s either a cause or an effect of said tradition.

In any case I think the reason Ryan will never run has less to do with having been Speaker and more to do with the fact that there’s a lot more money and a lot less orange ass-kissing involved in the private sector. Will be much easier for him to live out his Randian fantasies there.
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2019, 12:36:55 AM »

He'll probably become Wisconsin Senator in 2022 and then run in 2024 or 2028
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2019, 03:15:22 PM »

Never.  Becoming SOTH invariably torpedoes any credible presidential aspirations, and Ryan knew that when he took the job.

Sometimes I wonder if that would still be the case if Henry Clay had won any of his multiple failed campaigns. I know Polk won, but he was Speaker for a much shorter time and to this day he is the only Speaker to become president. Seems strange that the person who’s second-in-line to the presidency and arguably the second-most powerful person in the government is so rarely considered for the job. I guess they take a lot of flak nationally (certainly Pelosi has), but this has been the case since long before our current age of national polarization and mass media. It almost seems like tradition at this point that SOTH just never runs for president. And maybe those who take the job are less likely to have presidential aspirations, and that’s either a cause or an effect of said tradition.

The last Speaker, I believe, to make a presidential run was John Nance Garner in 1932. Until that it wasn't really that uncommon for them to run, just to name Champ Clark.
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2019, 08:07:21 PM »

Never.  Becoming SOTH invariably torpedoes any credible presidential aspirations, and Ryan knew that when he took the job.

Sometimes I wonder if that would still be the case if Henry Clay had won any of his multiple failed campaigns. I know Polk won, but he was Speaker for a much shorter time and to this day he is the only Speaker to become president. Seems strange that the person who’s second-in-line to the presidency and arguably the second-most powerful person in the government is so rarely considered for the job. I guess they take a lot of flak nationally (certainly Pelosi has), but this has been the case since long before our current age of national polarization and mass media. It almost seems like tradition at this point that SOTH just never runs for president. And maybe those who take the job are less likely to have presidential aspirations, and that’s either a cause or an effect of said tradition.

The last Speaker, I believe, to make a presidential run was John Nance Garner in 1932. Until that it wasn't really that uncommon for them to run, just to name Champ Clark.
What about Gingrich and Gephardt?
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« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2019, 07:08:21 PM »

Never.  Becoming SOTH invariably torpedoes any credible presidential aspirations, and Ryan knew that when he took the job.

Sometimes I wonder if that would still be the case if Henry Clay had won any of his multiple failed campaigns. I know Polk won, but he was Speaker for a much shorter time and to this day he is the only Speaker to become president. Seems strange that the person who’s second-in-line to the presidency and arguably the second-most powerful person in the government is so rarely considered for the job. I guess they take a lot of flak nationally (certainly Pelosi has), but this has been the case since long before our current age of national polarization and mass media. It almost seems like tradition at this point that SOTH just never runs for president. And maybe those who take the job are less likely to have presidential aspirations, and that’s either a cause or an effect of said tradition.

The last Speaker, I believe, to make a presidential run was John Nance Garner in 1932. Until that it wasn't really that uncommon for them to run, just to name Champ Clark.
What about Gingrich and Gephardt?

I've omitted Gingrich because he ran after his Speakership, but you're right, given Ryan is already out of that post.

Gephardt was the Majority/Minority Leader, never a Speaker.
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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2019, 09:11:25 PM »

He could pull a Newt Gingrich and run over a decade after leaving the House
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