'The Immaculate Nomination'

Mike Allen writes in Politico’s Playbook that an Obama Administration official has nicknamed the possibility of Republicans nominating Paul Ryan for President in such a way as to mock the party elites’ almost godlike view of the Wisconsin Congressman — and how little effort he would have put into the primary.

From Politico:

A Playbooker emails us that a senior Commerce Department official describes a brokered convention picking Speaker Ryan as the “Immaculate Nomination.”

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