Posted on 06/17/2016 4:06:01 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul Ryan said House Republicans should not betray their conscience when it comes to backing their party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“The last thing I would do is tell anybody to do something that’s contrary to their conscience. Of course I wouldn’t do that,” he told NBC News’ Chuck Todd in an upcoming episode of “Meet the Press” airing Sunday.
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No wonder the First President of this Republic issued a grave warning for future generations on the "dangers" of the "spirit of Party"!
George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”
Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
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“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."
The Republican elites DEMANDED Trump sign a unity pledge and he did. Now they are actively NOT following through on their end and are actively working to get Hillary elected!
The RNC is dead to me. They need to stop this $hit or they will suffer massive losses in the next election all the way down to dogcatcher.
Unfortunately, the majority of that group Has none...
Boehner was an improvement to this clown. It saddens me to say it, but I wish Boehner was there instead of Ryan!
I wonder with people like this. Are they Democrat moles, or victims of Stockholm syndrome?
Ryan as VP and Graham as First Lady.
ryan - the only job he ever had was an Oscar Mayer Bologna Salesman that his Aunt was able to get for him. Nepotism 101. The Oscar Mayer jingle of 1973; My Bologna has a first name it is O-S-C-A-R, my bologna has a second name it is M-A-Y-E-R. If you ask me why, I will say Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A. Ryan just seem stop selling the Bologna to the people. I am voting for Trump.
He makes me so ill.
I truly pray the people of WI vote him OUT.
I so agree. I’ve had enough of Ryan and my senator, McCain.
YES , WE held our noses and voted for these two SCUM BALLS, Mittens was SO FAR from conservative it was NAUSEATING!!!! YET WE NOW, have to AGREE with them, or THEY have the AUDACITY to tear they party apart!!! WELL I have news for you two SCUM BALL BASTARDS we don’t give a DAMN about your STINKING BETRAYING party, get the HELL out of the way, keep your DAMNED mouths shut, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE in spite of you TWO Benidict Arnold’s !!!!!!!!!!!
Shaddup, Lord Ryan.
“Cantor internal poll claims 34-point lead over primary opponent Brat”
Ryan has the conscience of a traitor. If he were around in 1776, he’d be turning in his patriot neighbors to the British crown for hanging.
We weren’t told to vote our conscience when it was Romney/Ryan....you traitor
Ryan has a conscience? Who knew?
As opposed to voting the way we tell you, or we crucify you politically.
Ryan a skunk and traitor .
susie collins already did and has the inside track both she and hil-liary are die in the wool LESBIANS!
CLINTON/COLLINS 2016 Party of the Imbeciles
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