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Paul Ryan weighs in on the division inside the GOP amid speaker fight
MSN ^ | October 19, 2023 | Julia Johnson

Posted on 10/23/2023 7:44:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan weighed in on the current struggle for the Republican conference to elect a new speaker of the House following the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Of the publicly fractured House Republicans, he said the conference is "basically a bifurcated coalition government,” referencing the growing division and significantly differing factions within the party.

“This is a political-leaning conference right now, not a policy-leaning conference,” he said in an interview with Politico. He explained this resulted because “our party is a populist-leaning party right now, not a policy-leaning party.”

During his time in office, Ryan was known for his conservative budget framework and was particularly focused on the rising national debt. He was known as a fiscal hawk throughout his tenure, and while voting with Republicans on cultural issues, he was less vocal on them. However, cultural issues have increasingly moved to the forefront of the GOP.

Former President Donald Trump, who boasts the support of most Republican voters going into the 2024 primary elections, oversaw the national debt's rise by several trillion without losing significant support. As Trump's prominence in the party remains, attitudes among members have shifted away from intervention and toward isolationism when it comes to foreign policy. Concerns about the debt have subsided to an extent as Trump's plans for immigration and China policies have taken precedence. The issues of transgenderism and LGBT presence in schools have also climbed in importance. The party has subsequently seen shifts in its base, with a larger share of non-college-educated and working-class voters making it up.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrat; clowns; clownshow; coupaccomplice; eddiemunster; enjoytheshow; globalism; gopclownshow; loser; pathetic; paulryan; rino; rinoryan; rinosedition
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To: DoodleBob

The only policy the RINOs are interested in passing is the Democrat policy.

They will compromise with the Dems but never with the conservatives.

The only thing Rinoryan is interested in with the conservatives is how best to insult them.

FUPR


21 posted on 10/23/2023 8:15:15 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: TheCipher
Oh that troublesome Americanist-wing of the normally more respectable, reasonable and well-dressed party.
22 posted on 10/23/2023 8:19:05 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: DoodleBob
One of the worst, most ineffective republican speakers in history says what?...
24 posted on 10/23/2023 8:21:03 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: imabadboy99

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“Fiscal Hawk” means take money from the American Middle class and ship it to
faraway places and their friends.

They fund woke bullshtt, every fake green project, all the fat for PBS and Arts, every symphony out there, and more Woke City giveaways.

In 2020, GOP and Dems gave $15 Billion to the Arts in just one bill.


27 posted on 10/23/2023 8:37:11 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: DoodleBob

The Republican party does not exist anymore. There is the DemoMarxistNaziRINO uniparty and the citizen and the citizen is losing.


28 posted on 10/23/2023 9:37:31 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: TheCipher

>>Note to Ryan: Populism IS the policy>>

They do not understand this. They simply do not understand because they are unable to look in the mirror and tell who they see there that the people consider them scum.

They think that’s some sort of fad.

They cannot accept that the people reject their self declared elitism. They cannot accept that Populism is forever now. It no longer has any sort of stigma. The rhetorical defense in the past was to sneer at the word and dismiss it. I do not think they realized when dismissing it that there would be no defense against it when it was actually evaluated.

They are slowly coming to realize that they no longer will define policy.

It will happen on the Democrat side, too. There is a deeper instinct to embrace government on that side, so the move to reject elitism will be slower, but it will happen.


29 posted on 10/23/2023 9:52:17 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: DoodleBob

I’d like to see Ryan hanging from a meat hook.

I damn sure don’t care WHAT the putrid skin-full of sh!t has to say about ANTHING.


30 posted on 10/23/2023 11:12:28 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: DoodleBob

Paul Ryan? Hahahahahahahahaha

The is pathetic


31 posted on 10/23/2023 11:23:25 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: reasonisfaith

They do so because they have no regard for you or your intelligence whatsoever.


32 posted on 10/24/2023 12:14:59 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: DoodleBob

One of the lowest life scumbags in the history of man.


33 posted on 10/24/2023 12:22:09 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: DoodleBob

weigh this douche


34 posted on 10/24/2023 1:32:08 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: TheCipher

When someone speaks of populism as a bad thing, they are a swamp monster. Populism is democracy, the peoples choice. The policy he speaks of is a donor based pragmatism, that pays the donors at the expense of the peoples will. When you hear them say “conservatism”, they have a very different understanding of the word. It does not mean small government or adherence to the constitution. It means paying off their donors. Paul Ryan came to power because he obeyed the donor class. And now he is gone, he has no power in the base of the republican party. In fact, if he took a picture with a candidate, even in Wisconsin, that candidate would lose.


35 posted on 10/24/2023 1:53:24 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m waiting for Tickle Me Elmo to “weigh in.” I’m sure his assessment would be more relevant.


36 posted on 10/24/2023 1:58:25 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: DoodleBob

” cultural issues have increasingly moved to the forefront”

Let me rephrase that for you, Paul.
The democrat left has swung so far toward Fascism, Communism, Marxism, that normal, freedom loving Americans are rejecting them, and look radical because of it, due to the slant of the MSM.


37 posted on 10/24/2023 2:53:39 AM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: AnthonySoprano

All talk, no action.


38 posted on 10/24/2023 2:59:23 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: DoodleBob

I don’t care what Paul Ryan thinks about anything.


39 posted on 10/24/2023 3:11:14 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: DoodleBob

“Breaking News”? Really?


40 posted on 10/24/2023 3:59:43 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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