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Paul Ryan to Tea Party: You are the problem
washingtonpost.com ^ | 2/3/16 | Paul Waldman

Posted on 02/03/2016 4:12:33 PM PST by cotton1706

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."

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gopestablishment; paulryno; rino; rinoturd; suckstobeyoujackass; teaparty
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To: cotton1706

Read the comments under that WaPo article and imagine yourself getting along with liberals.


21 posted on 02/03/2016 4:25:31 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: cotton1706

I do’t trust the Compost to accurately report such an event


22 posted on 02/03/2016 4:25:55 PM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: cotton1706
Mister Ryan should spend some time with us life-long GOPers, aka the "base".

He might learn just what we voters want (it's actually pretty simple) and why we have learned through disappointing experience to NOT TRUST Ryan (or his predecessor).

Mister Ryan, YOU sir are one of our (the Traditional GOP) biggest problems.

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Have a nice evening.

23 posted on 02/03/2016 4:26:08 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Seaplaner
Cruz does not make deals. He wins.

that is why he voted for TPP

Why his biggest Backer Club for Growth is a pro immigration gave him over 700,000

Boy if he is clean I wouldn't want to see dirty

24 posted on 02/03/2016 4:32:18 PM PST by scooby321
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To: scooby321

Does Jose Medellin agree with you about Ted Cruz?


25 posted on 02/03/2016 4:39:34 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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26 posted on 02/03/2016 4:41:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: cotton1706

Did the Wisconsin turd roll his eyes?


27 posted on 02/03/2016 4:50:55 PM PST by batterycommander (...Change your diaper, diaperhead. It's full of shiite.)
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To: cotton1706

All I can say to Paul Ryan is, ‘Thank You.’

It’s this sort of thing that is going to guarantee a conservative wins the nomination, and that eventually Rubio loses.


28 posted on 02/03/2016 4:53:29 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: cotton1706

Here’s the filthy Nazis at the WP trying to start a fight between Cruz and Trump supporters.

Let’s count how many 50 IQ dopes fall for this blatant agitation and propaganda.


29 posted on 02/03/2016 4:57:37 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: cotton1706

Ryan may have to be shone the same door Bonehead went out!


30 posted on 02/03/2016 5:01:57 PM PST by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Tea Party to Paul Ryan: You are the problem. It least 70% of primary voters a going for anti-establishment candidates. Paul, you have no business in politics if you cannot see the writing on the wall. It is not even close. A minimum of 70% are fed up.


31 posted on 02/03/2016 5:35:51 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: cotton1706

He wouldn’t be speaker without the Tea Party. That’s rich.


32 posted on 02/03/2016 5:44:33 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: cotton1706

its an idiot article written by an sycophant left winger with idiot opinions:

” Ryan is correctly arguing that it was stupid to make promises that couldn’t possibly be kept, but he’s arguing that it was making the promise that was the problem, while tea partiers and the base still believe it was the not keeping the promise that was the far greater sin. They see Mitch McConnell and Ryan’s predecessor John Boehner as feckless and weak, lacking the courage to stand up to Barack Obama. In their view, McConnell and Boehner are contemptible not because they lied to them about what could be achieved but because they didn’t achieve the impossible.”

no- McConnell and Boehner are not contemptible because they couldn’t achieve the impossible, they are contemptible because they are feckless cowards who gave into obama...


33 posted on 02/03/2016 5:58:21 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: cotton1706
Paul Ryan to Tea Party: You are the problem

No Ryan. You *ssholes entrenched in Gomorrah-On-The-Potomac are the problem. We plan to dump you like the despicable money grubbing trash holes you are - and when the next bunch eventually shows up and pulls the same crap we are going to dump them too!

Get lost, Ryan. Yo Tahm izz UP!

34 posted on 02/03/2016 6:03:35 PM PST by Gritty (Syrians aren't Jews fleeing Nazi Holocaust but Nazis relocating from a bombed out Berlin-DGreenfield)
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To: cotton1706

if Ryan has no republican competition vote for the dem this Nov.
These RINO’s need to get the message.


35 posted on 02/03/2016 6:05:17 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: cotton1706

If there is someone else running in his area that is Conservative I WILL go down there and canvas for him with all of my heart!.


36 posted on 02/03/2016 6:18:05 PM PST by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
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To: Zarro

Speaking of STFU I’d recommend the same to you.

And look at what Paul actually said....Not What Someone Says he said.
Speaker Paul Ryan at Heritage Action’s Conservative Policy Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBDVxOe2oI


37 posted on 02/03/2016 6:55:04 PM PST by Valin (I'm not completely worthless. I can be used as a bad example.)
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To: cotton1706

He sees his crummy career passing before his eyes.


38 posted on 02/04/2016 6:09:40 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Valin

I look at what he’s done not what he SAYS.

but you keep drinking the Kool Aid if you like it, thanks.


39 posted on 02/04/2016 8:55:03 AM PST by Zarro (Ben Carson 2016)
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To: cotton1706
Ryan can quote Braveheart all he wants. I prefer to paraphrase Francisco d'Anconia.

Ryan says the TEA Party is the problem, although the TEA Party played a large role in putting the Republicans in the majority in Congress.

I, and many like-minded people, have grown tired of being seen as "the problem." Good luck with your pursuits, I will no longer stand in your way.

40 posted on 02/04/2016 9:41:01 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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