Put Ryan in a Hillary t-shirt. The establishment owns Ryan.
I don’t think your memory is faulty. We all had some inkling this was the case but I think it was more media and party bullsh!t than anything else.
I had this putz’ number when I saw him in the one and only VP Debate with that letch Biden. Biden walked all over him and Ryan just sat there and took it like a little b!tch.
Some people might have said he had some b@lls. I contend that was only in talking to his own sycophants and mislead supporters [uniformed Republicans]. The real problem is that a “Republican” with b@lls first has to have a spine from which to hang them.
Trump wrote a book: “The Art of The Deal”...RINO RYAN is about to see how that works....ROFL!!!
GO.TRUMP.GO!!!
The non-actions of Paul Ryan are the reason we HAVE Donald Trump.
More than a few members of the Republican Establishment (including some FReepers), are of the opinion that the Republican Establishment (consisting of the local, county, and state officials, delegates, plus elected officials) ARE the Republican party, and the rest of us are merely along for the ride, and can go and find another party if we don't like that.
They also feel that convention delegates should be free to vote as they please, rather than as directed by the voters who elected them.
Yeah he is another so called and self proclaimed Conservative who wants Trump to buy into his form of CONservatism!
That describes the lot of them to a tee!
That’s what they all tend to pretend to be, at least to get elected at first in what they hope can become “safe” seats. Look at all the supposed tea party candidates (e.g., Kelly Ayotte) who went as liberal as they perceived their district to require or tolerate, as soon as they got in.
Cruz, too, has actually acted much more in the plutocrat/GOPe interests than his rhetoric suggests. Ryan never really offered much in the way of his supposed trimming of government spending. They are mostly frauds. (If they weren’t, the GOPe would have fought and usually defeated them before they even went onto the ballot.)
” Perhaps somebody with a better memory or pays more attention an help me with this: I kinda remember Paul Ryan being a young conservative firebrand or something like that when he was first elected. Is there any truth to that memory of mine memory?”
That was propaganda, and many people bought it. Ryan was introduced to DC politics and groomed and mentored to push amnesty, cheap labor, bad trade like TPP by Cesar Conda,a powerful Lobbyist/immigration lawyer, the guy who also owns Marco Rubio.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428577/posts?page=24#24
While we are at it, we MUST get Ryan out of congress!
He has a viable challenger.
Paul Ryan’s Betrayal – DumpPaulRyan.com
http://www.paulnehlen.com/paul-ryan-betrayal/
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3428425/posts
It’s a revolution about the corruption and arrogance of the leadership of the Republican Party — and, on a broader scale, the entire Washington political establishment.
all the best wrote: “Perhaps somebody with a better memory or pays more attention an help me with this: I kinda remember Paul Ryan being a young conservative firebrand or something like that when he was first elected. Is there any truth to that memory of mine memory?”
Perhaps Ryan doesn’t consider Trump’s proposals like raising taxes all that conservative? Just because Trump want’s something, doesn’t mean that something is conservative.
The American people have been voting to punch the Leftists in the nose for 20 years, only to be held back by the collar by the party supposed to be representing them.
They’ve finally turned around and punched the one holding them back.
The Left is next.
“Litmus-test conservative crowd”? The first test is, is he or she, as evidenced by actions - not words, a conservative in the first place? In Ryan’s case, he fails. I have yet to meet a conservative who espouses the philosophy of aiding, abetting, facilitating the liberal/progressive/communist/Marxist agenda...
Perhaps somebody with a better memory or pays more attention an help me with this: I kinda remember Paul Ryan being a young conservative firebrand or something like that when he was first elected. Is there any truth to that memory of mine memory?
However, like most pols, he has contracted the very contagious Washington Fever—manifested by symptoms including but not limited to visions of grandeur, seeking power and money by any and all means, amnesia regarding any promises made prior to first term election, ignoring will of the people, etc.
Ryan wanted to straddle the fence between his buds, the establishment/Romney and Trump.
In the end, he did neither and in fact he did damage.
He knew his Bud Romney was still on the fence about running third party, but of course that will never happen but Ryan isn’t smart enough to know this.
Ryan was caught, classic deer in the headlights mistake. Should have said “I’m very interested in meeting Mr. Trump next week”. and then zipped it.
But his mistake was huge, he allowed the non-unity story to progress and even encouraged anti-Trump folks to pour gas on that fire.
Make no mistake, this was a JV mistake and a huge mistake on Ryan’s part.
He either comes out of the Thursday meeting with Trump with a Red hat and a Trump pom-pom or he will not be allowed at the convention and he’ll lose his house seat.
Poor Ryan - he made a BIG mistake and really better act quickly at damage control.
Time for Ryan to try the private sector.
He’s a failure in the public one.
If Trump actually does keep 3 or 4 of the promises he has made he will do more for the conservative movement than a trainload of Paul Ryans have done.
Pau Ryan and other faux conservatives like him talk a grat game when seeking our votes, then go to Washington and help Obama move his agenda forward.
The proof of what the real conservative voters (Joe Six-Pack) think is demonstrated by the results of the primary elections.
Not by what Paul Ryan says.
The vocal “conservatives” like Ryan who get press time for their statements of doubt about Trump are the same people who lied to us election after election.
That’s the same Paul Ryan who campaigned and won election making promises to conservatives then broke every one of them as soon as he took office.
Where is the fight against Obamacare that he promised?
Where is the conservative budget he promised?
Where are his conservative spending reductions to cut deficit spending and reduce the national debt?