Posted on 06/01/2021 3:25:00 AM PDT by cotton1706
We aren’t actually governed by Paul Ryan, whose brief time as House Speaker ended in what can only be described as a surrender. Ryan bolted from the Speaker’s chair the minute the 2018 elections were over. He was happy to leave Congress to take a “cashing-in” job on the Fox Corporation board while his party took an electoral bath in those midterms he could blame on Donald Trump.
But as readers of The American Spectator know, in this space we’ve been exploring the premise that Americans are governed by people who suck. And Ryan put himself in that category even from outside the elective-office sphere this week when he offered up a tired and tiresome narrative about the future of the Republican Party.
What is it with these washed-up politicians, who are clearly the party’s past, demanding the GOP follow their instructions as to its future? Do we have to exhume the remains of Nelson Rockefeller and Thomas Dewey or conduct seances with them for guidance in how to defeat the 21st-century Left?
And isn’t it telling that Ryan, who shepherded the GOP to a huge 2018 loss not too terribly long after serving as the vice-presidential candidate on Mitt Romney’s somnambulant and intellectually moribund ticket in 2012, aggregates upon himself the wisdom to see the party’s future?
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Ryan was very effective at leading the party exactly where he intended.
He’s fine the same to Fix News.
I give this article an exceptional 5 Star rating. Hope everyone reads it.
Another right mind from Louisiana
Well done scott
D I T T O!!
We have to make Bush League Republicans extinct, even the ones President Trump endorses.
They will always be Assistant Democrats.
Paul Ryan in a nutshell.
Excellent essay!
Thank you, I won’t waste my time.
Paul Ryan was a traitor.
He was an obstacle to any forward movement of the Trump administration.
He was a rotten candidate in 2012, as VP.
How the hell did he get elected to Speaker of the House?
There were that many “Never Trumpers” to help the destruction of POTUS, Donald J Trump.
Paul Ryan, a traitor to the US but a hero to the never Trumpers.
If I live long enough, I will cheer his death. Hurry up, Paul, I be older than you!
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