Posted on 11/20/2022 2:31:01 PM PST by rod5591
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he is a "never-again Trumper" less than a week after former President Donald Trump announced a third White House run.
In his assessment of Republicans' weak performance in the midterm elections, he pointed to what he called the "Trump factor" and highlighted the difference in the performance of Trump-backed candidates versus non-Trump Republicans.
"It's pretty clear with Trump we lose. So I don't mean this personally. It's just evidence. We lost the House in '18. We lost the presidency in '20, we lost the Senate in '20, and now, in 2022, we should have and could have won the Senate. We didn't, and we have a much lower majority in the House because of that Trump factor. It's palpable right now," Ryan said. "We get past Trump, we start winning elections. We stick with Trump, we keep losing elections."
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Don’t you feel better Paul weighed in on this?
I mean absolutely no one asked him to from our side, but I sure as heck feel better.
Gives him a reason to poke his head out, poor guy.
/friggin rino loser
Out of the election cycle, so he reverts to form.
He has always been a Never Trumper.
Who did he campaign for to help win the House?
Answer: Nobody.
I guess we are even, Ryan-—
Many of us are NEVER AGAIN RYAN people.
Paul Ryan’s IN-LAWS and WIFE ARE UBER LEFTIES!!!! He’s a DEMOCRAT!! a DUMBASS DEWMOCRAT!! And a LOSER TO BOOT!
Paul Ryan is a quitter. He quit as House Dpeaker and left Congress and convinced other snakes like Trey Gowdy to quit to so we lost the House during Trumps mid terms assuring that Trump and the people didn’t get what he promised on things like Obamacare repeal. Talk about losing mid terms. The Big Quitter.
Ryan is Deep State.
And too gutless to say so.
Exactly. The Big Quitter.
You are right. Ryan ignores the facts. Many Republicans who were not Trump supporters, or supported by Trump have lost elections - now and in the past.
Trump's preferred candidate for NH House District 1 did not make it past the primary. We had a good Republican candidate but she lost to the Democrat. In 2016 Kelly Ayotte, a sitting US Senator, lost to Maggie Hassan. Ayotte was anti-Trump.
Paul Ryan is just another politician who has forgotten how to tell the truth.
The truth is, the RINOs depended on real conservatives to support them, but we can’t depend on them.
RINOs would rather vote for a socialist, than support those who have always supported them.
Paul RINO only cares about Paul RINO.
Paul Ryan says he is a ‘never-again Trumper’ after tough midterm losses.
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Paul is secretly rejoicing that the Dems won. Does anyone seriously believe that Paul Ryan is even the slightest bit upset that the Dems are in power?
Ryan? You mean the deep state communist who wore a rhino on his sleeve for years? That POS?
What should be quoted is NJ ex-Gov: CANDIDATES MATTER.
The quality of a candidate matters to the voters.
The quality of the campaign manager also matters. Here in GA Herschel Walker could have easily won had had followed the advice of Bill Clinton managers: Get the negative out early. Neutralize it so it cannot be used by the opposition.
Herschel had the perfect story: He was less than the perfect person in his youth. He saw it as poor mental health, which is an easy disease to attract if you are a sports mega star.
Herschel and his ex-wife made a video about mental health and healing and recovery. It is the story of Christain redemption. The movie portrays with emphasized drama, the before and after.
The Democrat apparently quotes from the dramatized “before” part for negative ads against Herschel. Herschel’s campaign manager was derelict, incompetent to not present early a story of redemption that would have made the Democrat negative advertising laughable.
Candidates matter. Campaign Strategy matters.
Wm H Bill Robinson, my early mentor in Chicago politics said “There are three things in politics. Money, people, and the brains to know what to do with them.”
Republicans lacked the brains in 2022.
The lesson should be to trust your own judgment, have confidence in your own abilities, and don't let others tell you what "the rules" are.
The rules are what you make them to be.
How did first-term AOC get to create The Squad, but Republican freshmen fall in line and don't assert themselves, because of The Rules?
-PJ
PRyno is the loser who basically did nothing to help Trump help all Americans for 2 years.
As that anchor holding the US back, why does he think anyone gives one whit about his current, still anti-Trump thoughts.
He needs to seek treatment for his long standing anti-MAGA stance.
Who cares?? He is irrelevant!!!
Who cares?? He is irrelevant!!!
He’s a conman and supporter of amnesty.
You were ALWAYS a never Trumper, you piece of 💩!!
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