Posted on 08/02/2016 2:49:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
COLORADO SPRINGS — Speaker Paul Ryan told a donor audience convened by the billionaire Koch brothers that they're in a fight to "retake the soul" of the Republican Party.
"We have to do a better job of taking the moral high ground ... showing [conservative] ideas in practice," Ryan said on Monday.
"And it will help us retake the soul of our own party, which we have our own challenges with these days."
Ryan addressed a room of some 400 donors who have been gathered here since Saturday in a luxury resort at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains for the summer retreat of the Koch network, founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David.
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In other words, Paul Ryan is saying he is for amnesty do or die to the end no matter what. His donor class demands it.
The “we” in “retake” is that cheap labor dunor class.
The “moral high ground” means destroying the Republican base and the voters who they are calling immoral for even voting, this whole voting thing has got to stop and “top down establishment rule” is the “high ground”, that’s why it is so important pro-amnesty authoritarians of the government class like Hillary ade elected, whatever it takes to stop the anti-establishment upstarts like Trump, after all there are millions of Mexicans who are delending on Ryan and the donor class who want their nice elderly grand parents to get into the US and enroll in all sorts of government class benefits that will give them a nice retirement they never paid for along with the important lifetime goverrnment retirement plans for the great civil servants of our morally superior government class.
Stop the barbarians like the middle class.
They think their money will protect them from their treason. When the time comes, their armed guards will run away, their castles will crumble, and they’ll face the storm naked and afraid.
Kadhaffi, rumored to be the richest man in the world with an estimated wealth of $200 billion, surrounded himself with an elite palace guard and a mercenary army. He ended up shot dead with his own gold-plated glock on the hood of an SUV.
I seriously doubt if Trump wins, Republicans will become liberals. What proof do you have of that? A handful of whiners being cry babies. Sad that they lost all their power.
All I see is Trump expanding the GOP base ...all except for the whiney GOP elites.
Quite frankly, nobody is going to miss those folks if they leave the GOP. The more political corruption we get rid of the happier we’ll all be.
Getting rid of Boehnerite RINOs like Ryan is step one.
Yeh Ryno and you are on the wrong side. You pathetic hack.
Ryan needs to go get a real job . . .
Agreed.
Ryan talking about the “soul” of anything seems about as hypocritical as one could be.
Ryan is a wealthy beltway careerist. He has no soul or any empathy whatsoever for Main Street USA.
What he really means is that he’s in a fight to utterly divorce the republican party from the will of its constituents - in order to guarantee Washington’s professional pols plenty of access to bank accounts, office space, tenure, perks, and privileges, all on the public teat.
It’s no secret plan. Ryan is just following the 2012 autopsy report to move the GOP left. He is so dangerous because of his faux conservative “street cred.”
I certainly don’t doubt that. I’m an old fart of impressions formed decades ago. Two examples stand out in my mind: Eddie from the Munsters and that smart assed Eddie Haskell from “Leave it to Beaver.”
I just don’t like his arrogant, smarmy-assed look, frankly.
Moral high ground is NOT giving Obama every damn thing he wants.
What he is saying is conservatives be gone, this is OUR party. Try and win without us Ryano you dumb ba$tard.
FUPR! All in for job-killing TPP :-P
We serfs apparently don’t know our place.
Trump’s opposition to free-trade deals, his comments about Muslims, and his plan to deport 11 million illegal immigrants have all contributed to the Koch network’s decision not to spend a penny of its $250 million 2016 budget in support of the billionaire nominee.>>> yup liberal people who want to take over a conservative party. bye bye.
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