Posted on 10/11/2016 6:10:32 PM PDT by drewh
House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared to take a principled stand when he distanced himself from Donald Trump. But he has infuriated Mr. Trump and his supporters, and that could hurt other GOP candidates.
WASHINGTON When House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow House Republicans that he would no longer campaign with or defend GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, he may have felt it was the obvious, principled position to take.
Speaker Ryan is a straight-shooting family man and devout Roman Catholic, and after the release of a lewd 2005 video showing Mr. Trump bragging about sexually aggressive treatment of women, Ryan said he was disgusted.
Ryans goal in distancing himself from Trump, he told House GOP lawmakers on a conference call Monday, was to focus on saving the GOP majority in the House, potentially imperiled by Trumps decline in polls. But Ryans new posture may already have backfired. Some fellow GOP House members are furious. And national party chairman Reince Priebus pointedly has not abandoned Trump, pledging to keep spending party money on the nominees campaign.
Ryan appears only to have empowered Trump. The voluble billionaire, after all, clawed his way to the nomination by bucking the party establishment and Ryan, as speaker, is as establishment as it gets. Now Trump boasts of feeling liberated.
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Change your party affiliation to “Independent”. Junk mail from GOP will stop.
I agree with you 110%
Why would you donate to the GOP? It’s like sending money to the government. Most of it ends up going to the wrong people.
He's a RINO. Part of the problem, not the solution.
What else do you need to know?
Cue 70s XXX guitar theme music.
It’s failing because he is a double dealing back stabbing liar who favors open borders and big government
CSM long ago became a big government open borders advocate
Why bother?
You are just going to have FReepers running around waving their tiny hands in the air shrieking that "Elections are term limits" and "The founders didn't think term limits were necessary".
They will ignore that the incumbent has a major, almost overwhelming, advantage in getting re elected and that the founders did not approve a professional political class.
Term limits, Good enough for the Presidency, Good enough for all political offices.
Yeah, and the herd mentality around here refer to him as a p**sy, better spelled accurately as pussy. The herd has to follow the journalists with the redacted spelling. Pathetic.
Christian Science Monitor has long been a leftist tool. Their silly and credulous reference to Ryan as a “straight shooter” and “devout Catholic,” as if they believe him incapable of dire treachery, is typical of their oily leftist way of thinking.
“They will ignore that the incumbent has a major, almost overwhelming, advantage in getting re elected and that the founders did not approve a professional political class.”
Exactly!
Christian science monitory
is none of those.
pure left wing triangulation propaganda.
Perhaps he has been offered a lucrative position in the Jezebel administration - Secretary of Changing the Colostomy Bag maybe. Wouldn’t be surprised if he switches to rat after the election.
The GOP HOR members voted for him as Speaker after Boehner was forced out. They knew then a lot of Republican voters were not amused.
Their phones are ringing off the hook from furious constituents.
I called Dave Brat’s office today it make it clear if he supported Pauly RINO for Speaker he could expect to be Cantorized.
The staffer I spoke to said they had been getting calls like mine all day.
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202-224-3121, when prompted press 2 for House, then input zip code 53548 for Janesville WI and press 1 for Ryan’s office.
I did that today and left him a scathing voicemail.
They won’t let you through to talk to a staffer.
They’re getting hammered.
Join the fun!
Trump should take things a step further ... Endorse the Democrat that’s campaigning against McCain. Yes, I completely understand what’s at stake by doing that, but McCain would flip ... Violently.
I wish the Senate wasn’t close ... That would be a decent strategy to neutralize McCain.
Wikipedia says he’s worth $7.8 million, I don’t think you get there on a Congressman’s salary.
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