In terms of an official announcement, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan’s hat is so far outside of the ring that it’s not even in the same county. The fresh-faced GOP Young Gun has never publicly entertained the prospect of a White House bid and his deep-cutting federal budget proposal, which included a plan to voucherize enormously popular health care entitlements, not only failed to pass Congress earlier this year, but sent Republican congressional candidates scrambling to defend themselves from a Democratic “Mediscare” campaign. Of course, that hasn’t stopped GOP pundits like the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol from breathlessly speculating that a Ryan run is just around the corner.
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