Posted on 08/07/2016 6:18:31 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
(Paul Nehlen) – Our campaign was all over the news again yesterday, including Paul Ryan coming out swinging while the media hit us with one negative story after another.
We must be doing something right!
With three days to go before we “term limit” Congressman Ryan, I wanted to take some time with you to address three of those negative stories and set the record straight…
About The Trump Endorsement:
Bottom Line: In endorsing Mr. Ryan on Friday night during his speech in Green Bay, Mr. Trump proved he’s the leader we need to unite the Republican Party and win in November.
He needs to squash Hillary. And I need to beat Ryan. Because if Clinton and Ryan are elected in November, Ryan will rubber stamp Hillary’s agenda in January. That said…
Media reports claiming Donald Trump “flip-flopped” by endorsing Ryan are simply not true and a perfect example of the dishonesty Mr. Trump has talked about among all too many reporters and news outlets.
For the record, all Mr. Trump did earlier this week was thank me for a letter I wrote defending him against attacks by Kzihr Khan and complimenting the campaign we’re running. He never said he endorsed me, nor did I expect that he would.
On the other hand, he never said he WOULDN’T endorse Mr. Ryan.
All he did four days ago was throw back into Ryan’s face Ryan’s own words – “not there yet” – as payback for Ryan initially withholding his support for Mr. Trump after Mr. Trump secured the GOP presidential nomination. He was just messing with Ryan.
That said, our team has been pounding thousands of doors for weeks now. And what they were hearing quite often was that although they weren’t happy with Mr. Ryan, they hadn’t heard anything about me.
Mr. Trump’s short, 10-word tweet on Tuesday changed all that.
Since then we’ve probably gotten over a million dollars worth of free media publicity and raised more than $250,000 in new, much-needed contributions for the closing days of this campaign!
I very much appreciate Mr. Trump’s kind words about our campaign and the boost he gave us when we needed it most.
And I can’t wait to attend his inaugural next January as the new congressman from Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District.
About that “Poll”
Most people know the names of the reputable polling firms in the political world: Gallup, Zogby, Harris, Rasmussen, Mason Dixon, Quinnipiac, etc. And any poll by any other largely unknown polling operation has to be viewed skeptically.
Now…
Back in mid-July the Ryan camp promoted a poll that supposedly showed him beating us by 49 points, 69-20%. But as we exposed, that poll was conducted by a polling company tied to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus who happens to be a YUGE Paul Ryan supporter.
Those polling results were about as believable as a Hillary Clinton declaration that she was truthful about her emails.
In any event, on Friday, the Ryan camp promoted another poll by yet another unknown polling company, Remington Research Group. And that poll claims Ryan has increased his lead since the July poll and is now ahead by 66 points, 80-14%.
Those at the kinds of numbers Saddam Hussein used to get!
Call us skeptical. So we did a little checking. Get this…
Remington Research group was founded by a guy named Jeff Roe. And in 2014, Roe did work in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s race. And Walker, like Priebus, is a YUGE Paul Ryan supporter.
But wait, there’s more…
If you read beyond the horse race numbers that the media couldn’t wait to blare, you’ll find that 90% of the people polled were in urban Milwaukee, with the other 10% coming from urban Madison – both of which account for only a TINY sliver of the entire district!
They didn’t poll in the rural and suburban areas of the 1st District. I wonder why?
There are a number of other flaws in this so-called “poll,” but you get the picture. Ryan’s camp is clearly nervous about us creeping up on him this week, so they put out this bogus poll showing, literally, unbelievable numbers to try to rain on our parade.
Don’t believe this poll any more than you believe a Paul Ryan promise to get tough on the border.
About Deporting “All” Muslims
Who among us has never said something that came out not exactly like how we meant it?
In a radio interview on Thursday, I was asked about President Obama’s Muslim refugee resettlement program that Paul Ryan funded with his omnibus spending bill last December.
And even though I said during the course of the interview that I was talking about Muslims who practice a radical, violent version of Sharia Law, I didn’t include that qualifier in all of my answers. As such, the media cherry-picked my comments and reported that I want to deport “all Muslims.”
My bad. So let me be clear…
My position on this issue is pretty much the same as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said on FOX News a few weeks ago after that ISIS murderer mowed down and killed 77 people with a truck in Nice, France…
“Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be. Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in sharia, they should be deported. Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up Sharia – glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door.”
Most importantly, I clearly stated this was a discussion we should have. Such measures certainly have constitutional challenges and concerns. But as Mr. Gingrich said, the situation is so serious and so deadly that we absolutely must talk about options for protecting our people from, as he called them, “medieval barbarians.”
So there you have it.
As Lawrence Lease of the News-Record put it this morning…
“House Speaker Paul Ryan has a shot at losing his seat in Congress to long-shot candidate Paul Nehlen. . . . Nehlen’s message is simple, Paul Ryan is a DC insider whose policies are too similar to Hillary Clinton’s. . . . Despite the under-dog status Paul Nehan has successfully forced Paul Ryan to reconsider Nehlan as a serious opponent. . . . This is the most serious challenge he (Ryan) has faced in hopes of keeping his seat. Wisconsin first elected Paul Ryan in 1998 and has been a career politician in Washington for nearly 20 years.”
On Tuesday, with your help, we will term limit Paul Ryan, end his political career, and shock the army of folks who have been trying to “Save Congressman Ryan” this campaign.
The phrase “molon labe” is a Greek phrase that’s been used to declare a determination not to surrender.
Molon labe!
QUOTE TO NOTE
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi
“As the national GOP rushes to protect Ryan from the wrath of Trump, stars from the conservative counter-establishment – former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, columnist Michelle Malkin, and author Phyllis Schlafly, among others – have continued to stoke the fury here (in Wisconsis), with the faint and fading hope that Nehlen could close the gap in the final days and score an upset similar to the one in 2014 that toppled then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). . . .
“Whatever the result, Ryan will move forward with battle scars, which makes the contest at least intriguing – and depressing to Ryan allies. No longer is the party’s highly respected 2012 vice-presidential nominee totally at ease in the district he has represented since he was 28. The winds that have lifted Nehlen still swirl on Capitol Hill, where the speaker has struggled at times to keep together his raucous Republican conference.”
– Robert Costa, Washington Post, 8/6/16
I'm really, really impressed with this guy. He has a brilliant strategic mind and has already in effect won this election regardless of the results on Tuesday
Ryan has this in the bag, all of his supporters should just stay home.
The Trump endorsement was a “cost of doing business” move on Khal Donald’s part. It was not all that sincere.
Very gracious.
I hope he wins Tuesday - in spite of Trump’s endorsement of Ryan, I’ll celebrate.
I like Nehlen, have supported his campaign, and hope he knocks Lyin Paul Ryan out of office.
I had a poster tell me, the other day, that Nehlen is a lobbyist paid candidate!! It’s so funny when these RINO/elitists are threatened.....and throw out whoppers that actually describe who THEY/their candidates are...ala Hillary/DNC.
So how is that not calling for deporting every Muslim in the country?
So how is that not calling for deporting every Muslim in the country?
Because a lot of them will lie and say they do not want sharia. But when there are enough of them in an area, they will demand it by their numbers, just like they have done in areas of Europe.
What is a "moderate" muzzl'em? One who is lying about true izzlam.
I believe in Nehlen and that he’s the anti-Ryan. Even if he wasn’t, I wouldn’t mind because it would still knock Ryan out of the Speakership and embarrass him out of the national spotlight.
Believe it or not, there are many Muslims who are not religious zealots, most of whom emigrated to the West to escape the same fanatics we want to keep out. They're considered heretics by the Salafists.
This is a complex issue and it's the reason Trump has called for an immigration pause until proper vetting systems can be put in place. I think the real issue is the Imams who preach hatred of the West. There's no reason they shouldn't be invited to leave the U.S. for the Sharia-land of their choosing.
To use an analogy: Not every German was a Nazi Fascist... Not every Muslim is an Islamist.
The 'inclusive' champions of 'diversity', the Leftists, are promoting a false dichotomy: that we either must accept ALL Muslims or accept none; this because, they promote policies that are premised upon being willfully blind to Islamic Jihad.
We see President Obama, self-proclaimed Islamic scholar, theologian and 'religious authority' give statement after statement proclaiming what is and what is not 'true' Islam... Since when does government define which sect of a religion is the true' 'religion or not really a religion? Show me where Obama has had the IRS identify and rescind the tax-exempt status of even one of these supposed non-Islamic Islamic pretender sects?
To believe the Left is to believe that these non-Islamic Islamic pretenders are all just lone wolves who happen to coincidentally operate under and promote the same ideology, an ideology that has nothing to do with Islam or Muslims and an ideology thus that can not be profiled...
In summary, the 'lone wolves' may attack singularly; however, they are ALL Muslims, indoctrinated in packs that are ALL variants of Islam. To PREVENT attacks, it is these Muslims that must be profiled for, watched and dealt with. Today all we are doing is identifying Jihadists after the fact; then, pretending that Islam/Muslims has nothing to do with motivation for the attacks.
What Trump is saying is that it is self-evident there are bad apples and we must start sorting them out; however, until we determine how to sort therm out we stop taking any more apples.
Lord have mercy. Jeff Roe, the genius who managed the Cruz campaign's dirty tricks.
The issue has been funding. When Nehlen appeared on Laura Ingrahams talk show the Friday just days before the August 9th election. Instead of hammering away at Ryan because he ignored Huelskamps plea to be reinstated on the ag committee which cost Huelskamp that seat. He comes on with unsubstantiated charges against Ryan and she thanked him but cut him off.
One of rhe two districts in Wisconsin that Trump carried was the 3rd who’s seat is held by democrat hack Ron Kind. When one decides on runnimg against a 3rd in line House Speaker the percentages are against you. Had Nehlen decided to run against Kind which was in the realm of being possible to do he would have won. For as it stands Kind is running unapposed. He’d also be in a position to push those conservative issues dear to conservative hearts.
But as long as they are practicing Muslims, keep to the dietary restriction, pray five times a day, or follow the guidelines on clothing then they are following Sharia. Any by Gingrich's statement should be deported.
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