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Letters to the Editor
How can Speaker Of The House Paul Ryan stand in front of a nation that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for President and say he’s not on board or ready to support a member of his own party? That is the type nonsense primary election voters rebelled against in voting for Trump in the first place. The big-shots in both political parties just don’t get it — that the nation is sick and tired of the status quo! In this election, the electorate will change what the party leaders won’t. Or perhaps new party leaders are in order, as well.
Bob Pritchard, Homer Glen
To all the pouting Republicans who cannot or will not accept Donald Trump as your candidate for president, all I can say is that you had your chance and you failed miserably. The choice is now clear: Hillary Clinton for the next four years or get behind your candidate, Donald Trump, and support him. There are no gray areas here. You blew it when you were afraid to stand up to President Barrack Obama; he played you all like a Steinway piano.
Mike Turay, Crete
The great British historian Paul Johnson is not the first to point out that the most significant aspect of Trump is his direct challenge to political correctness, but few have put it as strongly as he does in his latest Forbes column, “When Excess Is a Virtue.” Excerpt:
The U.S. has been inundated with PC inquisitors, and PC poison is spreading worldwide in the Anglo zone.
For these reasons it’s good news that Donald Trump is doing so well in the American political primaries. He is vulgar, abusive, nasty, rude, boorish and outrageous. He is also saying what he thinks and, more important, teaching Americans how to think for themselves again.
No one could be a bigger contrast to the spineless , pusillanimous and underdeserving Barack Obama, who has never done a thing for himself and is entirely the creation of reverse discrimination. The fact that he was elected President–not once, but twice–shows how deep-set the rot is and how far along the road to national impotence the country has traveled. . .
None of the Republican candidates trailing Trump has the character to reverse this deplorable declension. The Democratic nomination seems likely to go to the relic of the Clinton era, herself a patiently assembled model of political correctness, who is carefully instructing America’s most powerful pressure groups in what they want to hear and whose strongest card is the simplistic notion that the U.S. has never had a woman President and ought to have one now, merit being a secondary consideration. . .
Trump is a man of excess–and today a man of excess is what’s needed.
Further and similar thoughts from Conrad Black here.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/05/paul-johnson-on-trump.php
Over 3 million votes more than Ted Cruz.
Over 60% in some states.
Voter enthusiasm off the charts.
I'd say "overwhelming" describes it very well, especially since it was against the backdrop of the most concerted, unprecedented campaign of character assassination in modern American history.
Even in the face of the elites' absolutely Machiavellian and shameful behavior, including Ted Cruz's, Donald Trump did achieve an overwhelming victory which no amount of bitterness can erase.
Vote Trump!
“Trump should tell Ryan to get on board or else he’s going to Wisconsin to fundraise for Paul Nehlan.”
Actually, Trump has already said he wouldn’t do that, which is a very smart move, namely, it further isolates Ryan by showing that it’s Ryan splitting the party, not Trump.
This may be a blessing in disguise....this could cost him the election in August.
BTW, the dump truck with “Dump Ryan” on it should have been filled with manure to make the meme more accurate.
Ryan was slapped around in that debate.He lost.
:) Kinda like that -hehehhehe
And to think the republicans let these little punk jackwagon democrat know-nothings so pwn them even after we gave them the house AND the Senate in order to stop them.
Ryan wouldn’t even be in the speaker chair if we hadn’t so rejected Boehner for his epic cowardice. Yet Ryan learns nothing from that and thinks we want to continue down the road to economic destruction.
“BTW, the dump truck with “Dump Ryan” on it should have been filled with manure to make the meme more accurate.”
Then they could also add the inscription “This Truck is Filled With Broken Political Promises!”
Wait til Thursday. Ryan will come around.
This new paradigm is not easy for pissy republicans and demoncrats...but they will get with the program when they recognize it.
Ryan’s a conservative? Who knew ? Aside from open borders, amnesty, bad trade deals & giving Obama everything he wanted, I guess he’s something, though conservative is about the last thing I would call him. Perhaps I’ll call Luis Gutierrez, that leftist gutter-snipe Ryan pals around with & ask him if Paul is a conservative.
You’re kidding, right? We don’t need or want any more “true conservatives,” because they are at the same time limp dick, liars who don’t begin to do what they’ve told the voters who elected them they were going to do! Ditto for the “principled conservatives,” who actually have few, if any “principles” of any kind except those that concern their wallets. Collectively, they have so besmerched these descriptors to such an extent as to make them pejoratives. We need a new word to describe honest, limited government people. If Bill Kristol is a conservative, count me out!
Trump was/ is registered as a Repub over twice the time he was a Dem. What else are you wrong about,oh yea, Ryan is a swell guy. You know “conservatives”? Go back to f@cking bed.
And Ryan doesn't see that Trump has gotten as far as he has in the Republican primaries because the GOP voters are upset with that very back-stabbing, betrayal-type behavior?
Ryan is telling the presumptive GOP nominee current leader of the party and outsider candidate that HE has to play by the club rules or he won't support him? I heard some talking heads on CNN this morning saying that Ryan said he didn't like Trump's character or "tone" Now, what the heck does that mean?
Ryan looks weak by acting petty. Trump looks strong by dismissing Ryan's position. Trump doesn't owe Ryan a thing but to ask him to support him. Ryan owes his own party the responsibility to support the GOP nominee.
I don’t know why these guys don’t use PayPal. As much as I dislike their anti-gun stance, they ARE a lot easier to use than going through the CC drill.
No, Ryan is a pathetic lying politician. He gave Obama more than what he ask for in the last budget bill - and is a champion of TPP. He said he would end Obamacare but refused to make it a part of the budget - in fact he fully funded Obamacare.
Then, like the weasel he is, he sent a clean bill ending Obamacare which got shot down. Ryan is a lousy excuse for a republican... and probably a human being. Hell, Ryan has done more for Obama than Harry Reid ever did.
you see them ??? wow !! some times I see squirrels
Ok They all love him.
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