Posted on 05/06/2016 7:55:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Ryan's stand carries significant risk. With no competition, Trump is going to win more primaries, and pile up more votes, by the time of the convention. If Ryan changes course and supports Trump without some truly meaningful concession from the nominee, Ryan will look weak. If he opposes Trump the whole way, he'll anger a lot of people in his own party.
At the moment, Trump does not appear inclined to accommodate Ryan. Shortly after the CNN interview aired, Trump released a statement saying, "I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan's agenda. Perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people. They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first!"
In addition, in some cases, Trump has a majority of Republican voters on his side. For example, exit polls from GOP primaries have shown strong support for temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the U.S. In Pennsylvania, 69 percent of GOP primary voters supported the proposal. In New York, 68 percent supported. In Florida, the number was 64 percent. In Georgia, 68 percent. In Ohio, 65 percent. Michigan, 63 percent. Texas, 67 percent. And in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, 69 percent supported it.
That's about 2/3 support among Republican primary voters across the country for a proposal Ryan called "not what this party stands for, and more importantly...not what this country stands for." If Ryan were to urge Trump to back down from the proposal, Trump's response might be: I won, and this guy is making demands?
It's likely the two men will meet next week.
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Paul Ryan doesn’t have independent “wants”. He is owned, and wants what his owners want. Cheap labor and commissions from government bond sales.
Ryan trying to wring concessions from the most successful negotiator in modern American business history? ROFL
My question is....Who the hell does Ryan think he is?
Ryan wants what Ryan’s donors want: primarily, the spigot of federal dollars poured into private pockets to remain wide open.
His three points of dispute are disingenuous.
Banning Muslims makes total sense given the Islamic war on the civilized world.
The violence at Trump’s rallies was brought from outside by the Left, in particular ANSWER and other Soros entities. If Ryan is blaming Trump for that, then Ryan is basically being a partisan Democrat on this matter.
As far as disavowing David Duke, why does Trump need to do that? It’s not like he had any prior association with the man. The call for a disavowal is a smear attempting to link Trump to Duke, where no such link exists.
Hopefully Ryan will lose his primary and the point will be moot.
“Here’s my offer. Nothing.”
- Godfather II
Paul Ryan has been a professional politician since he got out of school. It is time for him to find something else to do.
A man who lives in a penthouse and travels in his custom 757 vs a man who sleeps in his office and showers at the gym...?
Ryan's either clueless or willfully ignoring a glaring reality. Does Ryan think his "principles" that lead him to support amnesty, open borders and any trade agreement that comes along are conservative principles? Whatever his reason for holding those positions, he is 180 degrees at odds with Trump and a significant majority of Republican voters.
It's difficult to look at Ryan and determine just what "conservative principles" are. Maybe Ryan and others need to stop the posing and blathering and address those very fundamental disagreements that can be summed up as the globalist agenda which Ryan supports and Trump and his supporters strongly oppose.
Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, vote Paul Nehlen and Cantorize RINO Ryan!
Byron “DC insider “ York .
A useless leech whose time is over.
Pour salt on this DC pest and let him die off
so the USA can survive.
Especially considering how well he held up against a intellectual giant like Patty Murray.
I just love when I insult someone’s intelligence with flawed grammar.
To try opposing the President for a change?
He wants Trump to come kiss his ass and beg for his blessing. This would reset the power dynamic that the GOP perceives has been ruined. It would make Trump their “boy’.
trump should say this guy may get beat in November
And please do not endorse this scumbag Trump!
“Ryan suggested he’s looking for something bigger from Trump. He referred to the GOP’s “principles” 16 times: “I think conservatives want to know, does [Trump] share our values and our principles on limited government, the proper role of the executive, adherence to the Constitution,” Ryan said.”
I challenge Ryan to name the action he took, or Boehner before him, that adheres to these principles. What bills did he pass that limited government? That started from a basis on the Constitution? None.
He’s all talk. Wearing the cloak of a conservative when it suits him, governing like a good statist when it doesn’t.
“He’s just saying our party deserves a leader who is committed to unifying, not dividing, our party and our country”
says Paul Ryan who is trying to divide the party. What a schmuck.
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