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Whose really going to run the Romney/Ryan White House aside from the Kochs and Sheldon Adleson
Watch the way the speeches are given the next few days. When Ryan and Romney are campaigning together who takes the lead. In the 60 minutes interview tonight (When was that filmed? Why didn't they cancel that interview the way they canceled the Saturday those interviews on Saturday?) See who seems to be talking the most ThAT will be WHO is in charge. It will be interesting to see if Romney is a Hands on candidate OR will Ryan become a Cheney "Ghost President"?
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“We are not auditioning for fearless leader,” Grover Norquist told conservatives at the CPAC convention in February. “We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget...We just need a president to sign this stuff...Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen..."
“The clamor you are hearing for Paul Ryan for VP is not about helping the Romney candidacy,” wrote conservative writer and former George W. Bush aide David Frum. “It’s about controlling the Romney campaign—and ultimately the Romney presidency. It’s about forcing a platform on Romney, and then dictating the agenda...If (Romney) accedes, it’s a big surrender of control—and a surrender to many of those who most opposed (and who inwardly continue to dislike) his nomination.”
...Those are the marching orders, and thus far they’ve controlled Romney’s campaign...
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“The clamor you are hearing for Paul Ryan for VP is not about helping the Romney candidacy,” wrote conservative writer and former George W. Bush aide David Frum. “It’s about controlling the Romney campaign—and ultimately the Romney presidency. It’s about forcing a platform on Romney, and then dictating the agenda...If (Romney) accedes, it’s a big surrender of control—and a surrender to many of those who most opposed (and who inwardly continue to dislike) his nomination.”
...Those are the marching orders, and thus far they’ve controlled Romney’s campaign...
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