However, he also said this to Romney when Romney wanted him to be vice president with him and he also said this when people wanted him to be speaker of the house. He might have even meant it. So, I would take this with a grain of salt at this point. He might be the Republican Nominee (to make peace within his party).(But you would have to twist his arm first) and he might grow a beard(like he did when he didn't want to be Speaker).
Speaker
Paul Ryan on Tuesday afternoon emphatically ruled out a presidential
run or accepting the Republican nomination. "I want to put this to rest
once and for all," Ryan told reporters at the Republican National
Committee. …
Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday afternoon emphatically ruled out a presidential run or accepting the Republican nomination.
"I
want to put this to rest once and for all," Ryan told reporters at the
Republican National Committee. "Let me be clear: I do not want, nor will
I accept the Republican nomination."
Ryan then directly addressed
delegates who will head to the Republican National Convention in
Cleveland this July who are ultimately responsible for choosing the
party's nominee.
"If no candidate has a majority on the first
ballot, I believe you should only choose from a person who has actually
participated in the primary. Count me out," he said. "I simply believe
that if you want to be the nominee - to be the president - you should
actually run for it. I chose not to do this. Therefore, I should not be
considered. Period. End of story."
For a third time in the same statement, Ryan repeated, "So, let me say again, I am not going to be our party's nominee."
The Wisconsin Republican said he's focused instead on offering a conservative vision for the country.
But
asked how this is different from his initial refusal to be speaker of
the House and then accepting the job, Ryan argued that that comparison
is "apples and oranges...being speaker of the House is a far cry from
being president of the United States."
This comes after several months of speculation that he would jump into the GOP presidential race at some point and after weeks of speculation that he could accept a nomination at a contested convention.
It's also not the first time Ryan has said no.
Asked
by The Hill newspaper last month whether he could foresee any scenario
in which he could be the GOP nominee, he said, "No, there isn't. 'No' is
the answer. Definitively."
Ryan, who will serve as a co-chairman
at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July, has
already repeatedly rejected the idea of jumping into the current race.
But a recent speech on the state of politics
and a video released by his leadership office have had the opposite
effect, only fueling rumors that he would consider it. The video, posted
below, had the feel of a campaign ad rather than just a typical video
released by a House speaker.
Ryan,
who served as Mitt Romney's 2012 running mate, ruled out becoming
speaker of the House for a month after Speaker John Boehner suddenly
announced last September that he would resign from his leadership post
and from his congressional seat.
Last month, Ryan admitted that a contested convention was becoming even "more likely."
"Nothing's
changed, other than the perception that this is more likely to become
an open convention than we thought before," Ryan said. "So we're getting
our minds around the idea that this could very well become a reality,
and therefore those of us involved in the convention need to respect
that."
Some political analysts have raised the idea of delegates
the convention nominating Ryan if Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich
fail to win the nomination on a first ballot vote. Every time the
delegates hold subsequent ballot votes, more and more delegates will
become unpledged to their original candidate and it will be more of a
free-for-all. CBS News' Walt Cronkite contributed to this report.
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