Posted on 05/09/2016 4:31:10 PM PDT by fireman15
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump.
In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now.”
“[T]he bulk of the burden of unifying the party” falls on Trump, added Ryan. Trump must unify “all wings of the Republican Party, and the conservative movement.” Trump must run a campaign that we can “be proud to support and proud to be a part of.”
Then, maybe, our Hamlet of the House can be persuaded to support the elected nominee of his own party.
Excuse me, but upon what meat has this our Caesar fed?
Ryan is a congressman from Wisconsin. He has never won a statewide election. As No. 2 on Mitt Romney’s ticket, he got waxed by Joe Biden. He was compromise choice as speaker, only after John Boehner went into in his Brer Rabbit “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” routine.
Who made Ryan the conscience of conservatism?
Who made Ryan keeper of the keys of true Republicanism?
Trump “inherits something … that’s very special to a lot of us,” said Ryan, “the party of Lincoln and Reagan and Jack Kemp.”
But Trump did not “inherit” anything. He won the nomination of the Republican Party in an epic battle in the most wide-open race ever, in which Trump generated the largest turnout and greatest vote totals in the history of Republican primaries.
What is Ryan up to?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
” I’m interested to find out just who is this “cheap labor express”? I read that they they are bankrollers and promoters of corrupted candidates, and that they have little in common with the GOP (or Conservative) grass roots.
But who are they?”
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See post 40
Let’s name some names.
GO - PEEers at each other’s throat again running interference for Hillary. So scary.
Kristi Noem ran to K street
“Surprising. PJB was saying everything Trump is saying 25 years ago. His three book series on immigration, trade and foreign policy were so prescient one might think he had a time machine and cheated.”
I’ve been thinking the same about Perot. Had his personal presence (which was said to be incredibly powerful) come through on television and had he not picked a very heroic, but aged VP, who knows...
Well said, Pat.
One of the most disappointing things to me as a “conservative Catholic” is to see all the Catholic politicians seemingly serving a different Master than Jesus. Hurts but I keep praying. Of course voting for Trump will help ease the pain. :)
Troubling times, indeed. Let us hope the people can see the truth.
Buchanan is a legend. He still has the same surgically precise and logical train of thought he had 50 years ago. He's a major reason I became a conservative. Pat Buchanan is a true blue American.
Somebody needs to start chalking all over the capitol.
In 1960, Gov. Rockefeller refused to challenge Vice President Nixon in the primaries. When Nixon went to Rockefeller's New York apartment to persuade him to join the ticket, Rocky refused, but demanded concessions in the platform, to which Nixon acceded.
The Chicago convention, a Nixon convention, believed itself betrayed by the "Pact of Fifth Avenue."
Only the appearance of Sen. Barry Goldwater at the podium to tell conservatives to "grow up. We can take this party back," halted a suicidal drive to take the nomination away from Nixon.
After Goldwater won the nomination in the 1964 California primary by defeating Rockefeller, Rocky arrived at the San Francisco convention to demand that a plank equating the John Birch Society with the Communist Party and Ku Klux Klan be written into Goldwater's platform. Hooted and rejected, Rocky went home and refused to endorse the nominee, who went down to a crushing defeat by LBJ.
Nixon, a party loyalist, campaigned across the country for Barry and his doomed party.
In 1968, Nixon got his reward, the nomination, with Goldwater's support. And Govs. Rockefeller and George Romney, who had done the Paul Ryan thing, never came close.
Rockefeller got what he deserved when the Reaganite heirs of Barry Goldwater, at Kansas City in 1976, demanded the dumping of Rocky from President Ford's ticket. And they got it.
Paul Ryan, in declaring that he cannot now support Trump, and imposing conditions to earn his support, has crawled out on a long limb.
Trump cannot capitulate. He has to saw it off.
This is one Private Ryan we cannot save.
Perot was very forward looking on debt. If you recall his national 15 minute TV spots, he was apoplectic on the national debt when its was $3T headed for $4T. We’d be in high cotton if that’s all it was.....
What I liked most about Pat’s essay is the refreshing of memory about what happened in 1960 and 1964. GOPe is doing it to us again in 2016.
In the first volume to be published of Buchanan’s 3-volume work on Nixon, he tells how there was NO “Southern Strategy.” And he wouldn’t lie about history.
Hilarious!
Trump “inherits something … that’s very special to a lot of us,” said Ryan, “the party of Lincoln and Reagan and Jack Kemp.”
How did Jack Kemp come to be such a hero and icon to the GOP establishment? He was good on taxes, but otherwise a mediocre non-entity. Oh, wait a minute, I just answered my own question.
He was never a private, lieutenant...or anything other rank.
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