Ryan says GOP needs to pick its fights with Obama

By Ken Thomas, Associated Press

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 | 3:19 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul Ryan has a message for fellow Republicans: Let's stick together and carefully pick our fights with President Barack Obama. In a speech Saturday to conservatives, the Wisconsin congressman and 2012 vice presidential nominee outlined a pragmatic approach for dealing with a second Obama administration. Saying that Obama would attempt to divide Republicans, Ryan urged them to avoid internal squabbles. "We can't get rattled. We won't play the villain in his morality plays. We have to stay united," Ryan said at the National Review Institute's weekend conference on the future of conservatism. "We have to show that ...

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By iwonder

Jan. 26, 2013

5:44 p.m.

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ryan will overexpose humself and his philosophy which will cost him the election in 2016 that he's campaigning for now.
By richr44

Jan. 27, 2013

10:05 a.m.

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He just doesn't get it. The Republican leadership still looks at this as a game. They aren't supposed to be "fighting" as if its a game to be won. And if they claim it is not a game...only an enemy chooses to fight! Which would bring up the question ... who is the real enemy here!