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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the popular chairman of the House Budget Committee whom some Republicans have floated for the party's presidential nomination were no candidate to emerge from the primaries, dismissed the idea of emerging from a brokered convention as "silly talk" Friday.

"If I had a burning ambition to be president, I would have run for president. I don't have that burning ambition and therefore I didn't run," Ryan said on MSNBC.

The Wisconsin congressman was asked by MSNBC host Luke Russert if he could envision any circumstance leading to his being the GOP nominee in 2012.

"No, I really don't see that happening," Ryan said.

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