Posted on 02/03/2016 10:18:51 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Today, Paul Ryan gave a fascinating speech at Heritage Action, a tea party-allied organization that has fashioned itself as the guardian of conservative purity. The speech called for unity. “To quote William Wallace in Braveheart,†he said, “we have to unite the clans.â€
But his speech was actually a repudiation of everything the tea party has done. Not only that, Ryan also took shots at the congressional Republican leadership, and even the current GOP presidential candidates. He didn’t call anyone out by name, but if you understand what’s happening now and the conflict that has roiled the Republican Party for the last seven years, the critique was hard to miss.
Not surprisingly, for much of the speech he blamed conservatives’ own sins on progressives, Democrats, and Barack Obama. That has become a familiar refrain — It’s their fault that we’ve become such monsters! — but when you say that, you’re still acknowledging that the sins exist. Let’s start here:
“My theory of the case is this: We win when we have an ideas contest. We lose when we have a personality contest. We can’t fall into the progressives’ trap of acting like angry reactionaries. The Left would love nothing more than for a fragmented conservative movement to stand in a circular firing squad, so the progressives can win by default.
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If conservatism does not work for conservatives why then should it for for Ryans corporate masters?
Isn’t Ryan up for re-election sometime soon?
Hey, **** you, Paul.
Whats the use of unity if you are going down the wrong road???
Are we sure that when he said this, he didn’t mean, “You are the problem for the GOP establishment”?
ALL RINO fools.
Newsmax just pulled a story where Ryan asked Conservatives to not REVOLT anymore, at least not until the election is over. He’s such a scumbag!
Any man who wears a one size fits all baseball cap backwards should be horse whipped. Not only that, he wears the cap indoors. I take hat etiquette very seriously.
Wow. Spitting mud in the eyes of those who made him what he is now.
0bama has done and is doing everything he can to quash Tea Party and other conservatives. Ryan is just one of 0bama’s mouthpieces now: the two of them-Mssrs. “Wall around my house but not yours”
After the omnibus, Ryan has ZERO credibility...he needs to get goned...
Thats in this article;
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Glad to be the thorn in your side their paulie.
In the mean time, the TEA party will keep poking and causing you much discomfort. Please feel free to drop out when it gets to be too much for you.
Ryan, you are the problem, not Tea Party.
Why blame Ryan?
The fake conservatives voted him speaker.
Exactly. Cantor was defeated by Dave Brat. M<McCarthy had to withdraw from being considered for Speaker for some dumb remarks and possible tryst with a Congresswoman, and Ryan has inherited the mantle of Speaker by the GOPe. They are not conservatives. They are sellouts.
Our ideas have to reflect our ideals which you don’t champion and now in danger of losing our country , Paul.
I can dream, can't I? lol
Oh okay! House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell met with President Obama at the White House yesterday. 02/03 NUFF Said.
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