Posted on 05/06/2016 1:18:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1
On Wednesday morning, not even 24 hours after Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan convened his top advisers for a call. With Congress out of session, Ryan was bouncing between multiple states, raising the piles of money needed to keep House Republicans in the majority.
But Donald Trump was on his mind. The speaker could not — at least at this point — support him. And he wanted to talk through how to proceed.
Ryan never expected Trump to lock up the nomination so quickly. He didn't think Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would drop out of the race in May. In fact, Ryan's orbit was preparing for a contested convention in Cleveland, where he is slated to serve as chairman, effectively the emcee of the Trump coronation.
The decision was made quickly. The next day, he would go on CNN and make it official, in no uncertain terms.
“I think what a lot of Republicans want to see is that we have a standard-bearer that bears our standards,” he told Jake Tapper in the bombshell interview that was taped shortly before it aired on Thursday afternoon.
“I think conservatives want to know, does he share our values and our principles on limited government, the proper role of the executive, adherence to the Constitution?” Ryan added. “There are lots of questions that conservatives, I think, are gonna want answers to, myself included. I want to be a part of this unifying process. I want to help to unify this party.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“didn’t think” “didn’t know” “didn’t realize” “didn’t believe”
.... all mistakes and still they can’t add 2 + 2 to come to a realization that this is about their non response to the obama train which is running roughshod over the country and over the people in the country.
Senate and House were in doubt if you embarrassed the boss and only voted for the boss not Ryan's members
Will you vote for Trump?
Trump is the entertaining protagonist?
It’s interesting to see who really cares about this country doesn’t it?
Listening to talking heads this morning about this, the distinct impression came across that Ryan may still be positioning himself for the parachute candidate at the convention.
The shadow campaign of Cruz going on behind the scenes to get delegates could make it a contested convention.
The Ted Cruz shadow campaign has started
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3427983/posts
**“I think conservatives want to know, does he share our values and our principles on limited government, the proper role of the executive, adherence to the Constitution?”**
Trump is so far over Obama on adhering to the Constitution that I don’t see why Ryan even has doubts.
““I think what a lot of Republicans want to see is that we have a standard-bearer that bears our standards,” he told Jake Tapper”
Our standards....uncontrolled immigration, more Muslim refugees, and more BAD trade like TPP and some more worthless wars to kill our kids.
People better find out who controls this traitor Ryan. He and Rubio are true manchurian candidates, handpicked by the powers that be in the GOP to push ‘THEIR STANDARDS’
Who runs the GOP and owns Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio? Let’s name names! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/05/who-runs-gop-and-owns-paul-ryan-marco.html
” and our principles on limited government,...”
What BS! A $2 trillion budget? What’s limited about that?
There are a considerable amount of people wandering about with the delusion that had this contested convention been pulled off, that somehow Ted Cruz would emerge as the nominee. That was never going to happen. The GOPe would have reached within their own to come up with a 'unifying' candidate who could 'legitimately challenge the democrats.' And that would not have been Ted Cruz.
Thankfully, the voters saved us from a horrible, horrible mistake.
Will Trump be a horrible mistake? Compared to what, I reply.
Compared to John McCain or Mitt Romney or whomever the GOPe would have placed up as the sacrificial lamb? Even if we take the worst assumptions of a Trump candidacy, and should he become president, of his time in office - they merely equal what McCain or Romney would have done.
We do not have a perfect candidate, we will likely never have a perfect candidate. But for once, it is us dealing the hand. I hope those who supported Ted Cruz can recognize and accept that and move forward to keep massive fires under Trump's feet to remind him of the direction he promised to lead us in, and to keep him from wandering too far off that path.
Trump says he got no heads up about this. Total FU by Ryan.
NOTHING these lying idiots might try will surprise me.
I wouldn’t doubt, for a second, that the GOPee - including cRuz....why on Earth else would his team even be continuing to push their cR@p - have some nefarious plans up their dirty, rotten sleeves.
Bottom line? Trump will expose them....even MORE....for the lying traitors they ALL are.
I am surprised that no one seems to have mentioned in the article or thread so far that this is just another ham handed power play by the establishment. Ryan and the rest are making every attempt to get Trump under their control. The problem for them is that whatever one thinks of Trump positive or negative... he is the master negotiator. He has a very honed sense of who has the power and why. Politics is a game of negotiating, and we are now seeing why the Republicans have continued to fail despite having a majority in both houses of Congress.
You are so right!
The DC Globalist Elites along with their friends in the media are expecting Donald to reach out to them for unity. I believe Donald knows they have no interest in putting America first and will continue to hold all the trump cards! :)
A message to Ryan:
I was born in Wisconsin. I was there until I turned 24. My entire family still lives in Wisconsin, and they all have been successful in business there.
I would like to address what Ryan ‘thinks’ are the values of the Republican Party that we registered Republicans are willing to follow or support.
There has been NOTHING in the past years since Reagan that the Republican Party has done to impress me. I have been a registered Republican for the past 55 years. The only time I didn’t vote Republican in a Presidential election was when I voted for JFK. I was beyond disgusted with Nixon’s behavior, and since then, I have watched the ‘Republican Party’ degrade into as corrupt a group as the Democrats. The Republicans just did a better job of hiding it from the voters until this year.
We REAL CONSERVATIVES finally have a man we can follow-—NOT a John McCain-—NOT a Romney-—a man who cannot be bought.
So far, Trump has spent about $44 million & Jeb Bush flushed over $100 million away trying to appear interested in running the USA as he wandered thru his campaign ‘rallys’. At a ‘breakfast rally’ in Las Vegas, the day before that Las Vegas debate, Jeb only pulled less than 30 people into his rally. Believe me, there are enough homeless people in Las Vegas who would have come inside just to get warmer.
Will my faith (and the faith of many others) be rewarded by Trump in the White House? We will see....
But there is one thing I am damn sure of——NOTHING Trump will do will be 1% as bad as what Bill Clinton & Obama already did do & what Shrillary Clinton surely would do.
This country has to get back on track with what made it great in the first place-—Drop Common Core—BAN PC crap-—Build a wall & keep our enemies away from our citizens. Clean the illegals out of the schools-—the prisons-—the jails-—the jobs-—and the corners in south central & east LA where they spend their days causing trouble.
Clean out the bloated Federal payrolls & stop the duplication & overspending. Throw out the current people running the VA & literally start over. OUR own military men are suffering while Obama brings more ‘refugees’ into the country every day & they end up with a completely free ride. Give an enemy everything they need to survive & nothing to do 24/7/365 & see how fast they can recruit more people to support their hate of America. Even the lowliest farmer in the backwoods knows NOT to let the fox into the chicken house.
I spoke to a local senior at the Senior Center a couple of days ago. He has been fighting diabetes for years. He was ordered by his doctor to get special shoes. When he began using those shoes——they cost $150 a pair. Then they suddenly cost $450 a pair with his insurance company involved. Then he was old enough to e eligible for Medicare. SUDDENLY, those same shoes cost Medicare $900 a pair!!!! He bitched about this waste & found out his own doctor sells the shoes he needs for $150 a pair. Guess where he buys them now? When he talked to Medicare about the cost, he was told to forget about it.
Another neighbor told me about the last days with his mother. He is the only child & HE took her to all of her medical visits. When ALL of the nurses & doctors had told him that there was no hope for his mom, he was at her side as many hours a day in the hospital as he could be. One day, one of the doctors came in & told him that ‘I have ordered a speech therapist to come in tomorrow for your mother”. My neighbor challenged this. WHY? “Because she will feel better about herself”. His mom was in dememtia. He argued with the doctor & said to cancel the ‘speech therapist’ & the doctor IMMEDIATELY discharged his mother.
A few days after she passed, he got updated information from Medicare about all the services his mother had received. There were 9 visits to this same doctor-—not in the hospital, but before that-—to his office!!! My neighbor was the ONLY transportation she had to the doctor & she had ONLY BEEN THERE ONE TIME——NOT 9???
He called Medicare-—(they had already paid the doctor) & CLEARLY TOLD THE PERSON AT THE MEDICARE FRAUD LOCATION that he had been his mother’s only transportation & that she only saw him one time. NOT 9. He wanted Medicare to charge back the doctor for the fraudulent billing.
The person at MEDICARE FRAUD LOCATION said : “FORGET IT. It is already paid.!!!!”
So much for having ANY kind of Fraud department at The Federal level.
I want Trump to cut every single Federal department in half at a minimum——but I want the EPA, the Education Dept—and other units totally closed down. IRS needs paring down to the nubs, also.
American working citizens who are carrying the tax bill for all this waste can find smarter things to do with their money. MAYBE many of the middle class can help their own kids with college tuition, and the kids would only have SMALL student loans that the Feds ae controlling.
He said that he didn’t want to be the nominee in a contested - we all know that was A LIE”””” go to thread #3405214 here on FR.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3405214/posts
Go to post #11.
Romney & Ryan filed papers with the FEC on Jan 31, 2016 to run for President & Vice President of the USA. They also filed papers for a fund raising group.
Ryan has been lying for a VERY long time. I would trust him to water my dogs & horses.
But the speaker has acknowledged that a bid in 2020 is possible and, intentional or not, this could be part of an effort to pick up the pieces if Republicans lose the White House this fall.
He's already presuming/and hoping that Trump will lose. He has his own political future he's thinking about. Primary him out, Wisconsin!
He’s better than Hillary, by far!
“I think what a lot of Republicans want to see is that we have a standard-bearer that bears our standards”
This is exactly the problem. He means The ELECTED Republicans want the party standard bearer to bear THEIR standard (Amnesty, free trade, loose southern border ensuring cheap labor etc..). Many (most) of The VOTING Republicans do not want Amnesty, do not want free trade, want a secure southern border. That “many” wants the party to change their standard to follow Trump. The ELECTED Republicans refuse to acknowledge this difference, the ELECTED Republicans refuse to change and that’s why they’ll never unify behind Trump or those that do will half-ass it.
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