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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Paul Ryan To Retire [View all]calimary
(81,091 posts)I cant help but suspect two ego-driven reasons are behind this.
1: he foresees (or his best internal intel forecasts) a GOP bloodbath in November and he doesnt want to face the humiliation of handing his gavel over to a Democrat.
Or
2: he foresees an increasingly realistic prospect of being voted out of his own Congressional seat, because hes facing an increasingly appealing Democratic challenger (Randy Bryce) in the midterms. And that would be HOWLINGLY humiliating!
I bet the ghost of Eric Cantor haunts him every minute of every day. Eric Cantor was a smug, swaggering GOP Congressional leader/Golden Boy too, with all kinds of upwardly-mobile perceptions and public assumptions, until he got primaried out of his seat a few years back. And now Cantors in a Wall Street job that pays him a kings ransom with none of the political jungle warfare or aggravations or other inconveniences (like having to work with a certified moron in the White House).
Just my opinion, of course.