Posted on 05/09/2016 7:23:45 AM PDT by all the best
Just when you think you’ve heard and seen it all in the Republican campaignathon, along comes prom king Paul Ryan displaying an arrogance that makes Donald Trump look like the Dalai Lama by comparison. Millions of American jaws must have dropped in unison when chameleon Ryan casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s “just not ready” to support Trump.
Really? Where do I even begin to address such a remarkable display of unflinching arrogance? How about just stating the obvious — that the litmus-test conservative crowd still doesn’t get it.
That’s right, hard as it is to believe, after ten months of watching Trump swat every political fly who’s annoyed him, the pathetic “Never Trump” crowd really and truly still does not understand what’s taking place in America.
Specifically, what they don’t get is that this is a genuine revolution. And it’s not a revolution about Trump. It’s a revolution about the corruption and arrogance of the leadership of the Republican Party — and, on a broader scale, the entire Washington political establishment.
That’s right, it’s taken eight long and destructive years, but the Republican Party’s base is now in full revolt against the Ryans, the McConnells, the McCains, the Grahams, et al. You’d have to be blind, deaf, and stupid — or totally delusional — not to have figured that out by now. Nevertheless, the guys who have run things for decades have chosen to stubbornly remain in a state of denial.
They do not understand that the so-called leadership is not the Republican Party. The Republican Party is the Republican voters. Had party leaders been able to do so, they were fully prepared to ignore the will of their rank-and-file members at the Republican National Convention in July and use their crooked, self-serving rules to get their way.
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To be honest with you, I am starting to think that in many cases it actually is only that he disagrees with him. Look at the instant flip from villain to hero, or hero to villain going on here, based solely on if that person says something positive or negative about Trump.
I would interpret it as pusillanimy on Ryan’s part.
All Ryan had to say originally was that Trump was the people’s choice and he looked forward to working with him on their differences for the ultimate good of the Republican party and the people of the US.
Even his allies in the House couldn’t figure out what he hoped to accomplish with such a tone-deaf statement as he made.
For you to say that means you didn’t see that a lot of us realized Paul Ryan was a turncoat before he became speaker.
For you to say that means you didn’t understand that the reckless passing of the omnibus bill by him was terrible in and of itself.
Ryan deserves to get thrown out. He is a failure. He was a failure before Trump ever became the presumed nominee. It’s fortunate that he has now demonstrated that for the whole country.
I wasn’t just talking about Ryan. I think it was just yesterday I saw a “Oh, we are supposed to like Coulter again?”
Ryan hasn’t been a hero to most of us in a long long time so your statement is smoke to allow a Trump supporter bash.
What I am talking about is the emotional reaction to anything said about Trump. If it is perceived as negative (even if it is a misleading headline), then that person is a villain. If it is perceived as positive, then that person is a hero.
And it seems that one can go from villain to hero based on that bell ringing. Oh, we are supposed to like Dole now? Or Cheney? Or Coulter? Or, well, fill in the blank.
It feels more and more like a liberal circle jerk with some of the comments in here. What happened to reasoned discussion?
Ryan was one of several Congressmen who put out a budget proposal in 2008, which he modified in 2010. In 2011, as Republicans were preparing alternative proposals to counter ObamaCare passed in 2010, Ryan's budget proposal was the most matured of them all and became the framework for the Republican response.
It may not be a case of Ryan being some up and coming Conservative hotshot, but rather someone in the right place at the right time with something that the leadership needed.
-PJ
Thank You AuntB for posting that link to Towncrier.
Chock full of info and names names as well!
Thanks you,Randy Larsen. Feel free to use any info on my blog that will help Trump! It has a search feature.
Very clever.
I noticed you ignored the clarity some of us had in knowing Paul Ryan was a fraud before we decided to support Trump.
As to Coulter, do you think she’s wrong about stopping the invasion of illegals from Mexico being the most important issue right now?
I think he has to say it because his district is full of Mexicans.
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