Paul Ryan: Yes, I’ll Run For House Speaker Again

Expect Breitbart to give him the full Boehner experience. Via Politico:

It’s official: Paul Ryan is running for speaker. The Wisconsin Republican during a Friday afternoon radio interview brushed aside rumors that he would step aside after Election Day, dismissing them as “palace intrigue in the Hill rags.”

“I am going to seek staying on as speaker,” Ryan told WTAQ’s Jerry Bader, while stumping for GOP candidates in Wisconsin. “There’s a lot of unfinished work to do and I think I can do a lot to help our cause and our country. I’ve led us to offer a very comprehensive agenda to take to the country and I want to execute and implement that agenda.”

“This is the typical chatter you have every two years,” Ryan added of recent suggestions on Capitol Hill that he’ll bow out of GOP leadership. “They call it ‘palace intrigue’ in the Hill rags.”

House Republicans are expected to lose at least a dozen seats on Election Day, which would narrow Ryan’s margin to be re-elected as House speaker. He has to garner 218 votes to re-claim the position, and already some conservatives have privately talked about withholding their votes in an effort to push him further right — or perhaps out of the speaker’s office entirely.

Nine Republicans voted against Ryan when he vied to succeed John Boehner last fall. One of them was Loony Louie Gohmert, who cast the lone vote for Loony Louie Gohmert.