Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he would “consider” running for vice president on the Republican ticket this fall, after indicating that he expects Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination.
Chris Wallace asked Ryan how he would respond if asked to run for vice president. “I would have to consider it,” Ryan answered on Fox News Sunday, “but it’s not something I’m even thinking about right now because right — I think our job in Congress is pretty important. And what we believe we owe the country is, if we don’t like the direction the president is taking us, which we don’t, we owe them a specific sharp contrast and a different path that they can select in November.”
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“Real quickly, the White House sounds like they’ve already made the ticket,” Wallace observed. “You heard David Plouffe talking about the Romney-Ryan budget.”
Ryan accepted the hypothetical. “We’re going to give the country a choice,” he said. Now, we’re going to show the country, here’s how you balance the budget, pay off the debt, grow the economy and stop all the cronyism in Washington, picking winners and losers.
Ryan seemed to predict Romney would be the Republican nominee as well. I don’t know if I’d say he has it wrapped up,” Ryan said of Romney, adding that the former Massachusetts governor “is becoming the prohibitive front runner.”
