Republicans want Donald Trump to be president. Republican elites (aka donors and neo-cons) would prefer to see Hillary as president.
* From the perspective of the money interests behind the Republican Party, it is better that Ryan lose to Hillary than Hillary lose to Trump.
After all, Hillary can be persuaded to “see reason” as easily as Bush.
* Ryan impressed no one as a vice presidential candidate. As a result, he became speaker of the house. This is how things work.
* They’ll run him to stop Trump if they can, but more or less expect to lose with Ryan. the Republican establishment may prefer to lose than get Trump elected pres. The threat of president Sanders might have been too much, but Clinton is in effect on the left wing of the same party as Ryan.
Don’t assume the Rep establishment are totally venal by their own lights. The values that Ryan talks about may actually be more important than winning to the powers that be. Ryan, in that interview you linked to the other day, said Irish immigration was once considered the way Mexican is now.
* I suspect the biggest part of it is that the Republican establishment really truly accepts the leftist frame and worldview, and therefore is deeply, deeply embarrassed by Trump. The repub establishment views illiberal whites in precisely the same way that the left does. The establishment wouldn’t be able to look their liberal friends in the eye with Trump. Conversely, if Rubio were the nominee they’d have their own Obama, so they imagine, and all their lib buddies would be much less scornful. And why not, since the difference between a Rubio and a Clinton administration would be marginal.
That said, these morons thought that another Bush or the Pool boy were the answer for them, so I can’t pretend to understand their thought processes.
* 2/3 of the abortions in this country are to black and Hispanic women.
Meaning, Planned Parenthood has done more good for the Republican party than anyone in history.
Keep the funding going.
* I knew Ryan was a goof the moment I saw him; something about his looks. Now that Romney let the mask fall and Ryan has come into his own I see how my initial impression was correct, both now exposed as posturing phonies. To think they had all the hopeful people out there suckered into thinking they were something they weren’t, it’s just a shame. They didn’t deserve to win back then. Ryan should get off the government dole, he’s just a high class welfare recipient, and go get a real job somewhere.
* Paul Ryan’s brand of politics have gone completely rancid.
The thought of nominating Ryan is like finding an otherwise brand new food saver container in the back of the fridge with last Easter’s deviled eggs in it.
There is no way in hell you are going to risk stinking up the kitchen by opening it just to rinse out the container. Best throw the whole thing in the trash.
Funny thing is Paul Ryan just last summer was making the rounds giving interviews to NeoCon controlled Talk Radio networks like Emmis (“Truth” in Hebrew) Communications while promoting his book stating that he had seen the light on Open Borders and understood why the Republican base is so strongly opposed to it.
My thoughts at the time was this bastard is just trying desperately to forestall a primary challenge and ending up like Eric Cantor.
Of course Ryan has since backtracked back to being a Donor favorite because he was able to takeover as speaker from Boehner.
What a completely untrustworthy Cuck!
* GOP Establishment George Will said on Fox News Sunday that Donald Trump has turned The Republican Party into the White party and that will destroy the GOP. Since when was The Republican Party voter base ever Vibrantly DIEverse to begin with, when Mitt Romney ran in 2012? In some predominantly African American zip codes Mittens did not win a single Black vote. And Mittens did not even say anything racially controversial, he ran a 100 percent politically correct campaign. He also fared poorly among Muslim, Asian, and Hispanic voters.
Being nice and politically correct still does help the GOP win a significant amount of Nonwhite voters.
The number of Nonwhites who voted for Mitt Romney would not be enough to fill up every seat in Levi stadium, which hosted this year’s Super Bowl.
* If it’s a matter of an acquaintance, work friend, neighbor or other casual relationship, and his politics bother you that much, then drop him.
But if it’s a close friend, a relative, or someone you’ve known for a long time, think carefully. The older you get, the more you value and need close relationships. This is especially true for men, who tend not to make friends as easily as women. There is joy in shared memory and shared good times that should not be thrown away lightly.
I know I sound like a geezer here (perhaps because I am one), but there will come a time in your life when you’ll want to say “remember when?”; it’s more fun if you don’t have to talk to yourself.
On a related note, I think it’s terribly sad that we have become so polarized as a society that millions of people think they can’t be friends with anyone whose politics are significantly different from theirs. Why not? What’s wrong with people – on both sides of the fence – that they can’t have a civilized conversation with someone on a topic about which they disagree? What happened to the concept that honorable people can have different opinions on important matters?
* One wonders how much of the negatives against Trump comes precisely from the eagerness of the Republican establishment to demonize him, and along the exact lines the leftist media has chosen: Trump is the white supremacist who out-Hitlers Hitler. How might Trump be viewed by the larger public if he didn’t seem to have bipartisan revulsion against him, and if the standard Republican organs chose to defend him rather than pile-on in their attacks?
Will the Republicans ever be able to demand or even hope for loyalty toward their own, after what they’ve done to Trump and his followers?
Gone forever is Reagan’s 11th Commandment:
Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Never expect it in the future, elites. It has been dispatched by your own hand.
* Trump has remarkably moved the Overton window and exposed the establishment and their media and politician whores for what they are. My hope is that a grassroots movement will spring up so that regardless of what happens to Trump, we can continue to MAGA.
* Life is too short to waste around people on vastly different wavelengths.
Political differences are like annoying habits. If I have a friend with whom I’m entirely compatible except that he smokes and I hate the smell, it’s unlikely I will limit my time around him much.
But if he smokes, and is rude to waitstaff, and is a bad driver, and has halitosis, and disagrees with me about important issues etc etc then I probably will not give him high priority in my life.
Time you’re not spending around a friend who is constantly causing you annoyance is time that you could be spending meeting people that you’ll love.
* Paul Ryan is the new future of the Republican Party (and always will be) – in the same way that Jack Kemp was always the future of the Republican Party.
Outside of his upstate New York congressional district Kemp never won a single election. He bombed as Bob Dole’s running mate, and when he ran for president in 1988 he did no better than 3rd in any state primary, finishing 4th or worse in most states. That was the year that the moderate George H. W. Bush won overwhelmingly by talking about capital punishment, the pledge of allegiance, and Willie Horton.
So Kemp’s brand of “conservatism” – which is basically what we’ve had for the last 20 years, thanks in large part to George W. Bush’s adoption of it (governing, not campaigning) – was never very popular. It’s basically pro-Israel neoconservate on foreign policy, neofeudalist on tax and immigration policy, and effectively leftist on everything else, since it surrenders to the left on all of the cultural issues. It’s what Republican voters have been slowly coming to rebel against since the advent of the Tea Party, and are in open revolt against now.
Appropriately enough, Jack Kemp was Paul Ryan’s mentor. What policies has Paul Ryan most closely been associated with? Open borders and slashing social security – not exactly the policies rebellious Republican voters are demanding.
* We have a hostile anti-nationalist elite, which is bent on policies destroying the American nation–they just want it to be a random piece of real estate part of a “global market” that they can exploit. The Democratic Party and the Republican establishment are on-board, carrying water to outright cheerleading this nation wrecking.
I’m an old dude, but I want to leave something better–the American nation–behind for my kids and their kids. And so do a lot of other folks.
I don’t get to choose our standard bearer. Sure i’d prefer a guy who was say a successful governor of Ohio, a one-married family man, respectably rock-solid, still a tough talker on mocking policy stupidity–of which the establishment produces so much–but leaving out useless personal attacks.
But you know what? Trump is who we’ve got.
* But still, never forget: the job of politicians like Paul Ryan etc. is NOT to win. It is, by one means or another, to ensure that come November the American people have no real choice. For the donorist Republicans – who will cheerfully support joined-at-the-hip-to-Wall-Street Hillary Clinton if necessary – Paul Ryan accomplished the job he was entrusted with. So why wouldn’t they go with a proven and loyal servant?
* Trump is much smarter than we credit him for. Just wait and see. The thing is, he’s a rarity of sorts: highly extroverted but highly intelligent as well. He’s got social smarts unlike most intelligent persons.
* George Will today on Fox News Sunday:
WILL: Well, stylistically, Trump is in the George Wallace tradition. Wallace who famously said, there’s too much dignity in American politics. We have to have more meanness. Wallace got 46 electoral votes because he has a regional base. What makes Trump more interesting is he’s not a regional candidate. He has support all over the country, as he’s demonstrated.
The problem is this. Not only are his negatives 61 percent, almost doubled his positives, 32 percent, but he’s appealing entirely to white people. Now, in 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush got 40 – 59 percent of the white vote, which was high. And that translated into 426 electoral votes. Mitt Romney, in 2012, got 59 percent of the white vote. That translated into 206 electoral votes. Romney got 17 percent, that’s all, of the non-white vote.
Trump, by every measure, would do worse than that, which means he would have to get not just the 65 percent of the white vote to win that Ronald Reagan got sweeping 49 states, he would have to get 70 percent of the white vote. A, it won’t happen, and, B, it would destroy the Republican Party by making it the party of white people.
I’ve not been particularly fond of the whole “cuckservative” meme, but this kind of explicit ethnic masochism or defeatism, from the senior national “conservative” pundit, is pretty shocking.
* Tom Tancredo had all of the right positions but couldn’t get any traction at all. It takes someone like Trump to do crazy stuff and get the press to cover him and then attack the press, and then violate the unwritten rules of public discourse and say what is popular, etc. Based on the sample size of two, the Trump model works better than the Tancredo model.
* My youngest son said that, “Trump is not a great, or best messenger, but he resonates with so many people.” You all would be so surprised that the generation of Millennials who think “everything is lame,” are eager to see Trump succeed…but they want him to shelve the “lame-speak,” stop saying incendiary things to rile people up, now that he is almost “home free.” Time to act presidential, or whatever.
For college and High School students who have been indoctrinated with the concept of diversity uber alles, since they had “circle time” in kindergarten, Trump is sort of a touchstone for them. Bernie is the other side of this weird coin we are seeing right now. Albeit, at least someone is peeling off the b.s. of what exactly both parties have been up to in DC for several decades (besides enriching themselves) before these very same Millennials are even able to vote.
Not only are the government and media people, 40 and older, dumping all the problems on the Millennials, they are trying to convince young people that things are gonna be fine as long as we continue the same course since Reagan or B. Clinton. The Millennials don’t care who Reagan was, btw – boring. And, they don’t “get” that the US owes Mrs. Clinton anything.
Millennials do know they will be stuck with the scourge and myriad problems of: EU migrants, illegal aliens in the USA, unaccompanied minors from Latin America, heroin from Mexico, Isis, jihadies wanting to blow stuff up from time to time while they’re figuring out their “reformation.”, global climate change, degradation of the environment, infrastructure collapse, a HUGE population of seniors needing support, mysterious growth of special needs people as autism becomes more prevalent, the achievement gap entropy…and, down the depressing road, probably Zika babies abandoned on the US border.
So, yeah, at least Trump is ripping the Scooby-Doo mask off of all the lamoes that have handed the Millennials this massive, massive, colossal national debt and all the other bummers mentioned above. Trump just needs to constantly, mention H1B, outsourcing, immigration, destruction (by both parties) of the once “fantastic” jobs by co.’s like Bethlehem Steel. The stereotype I always heard as child, “Americans only care about money,” is hard to dismiss as both parties are just in a rage to figure out how to stop Trump from ruining the gravy train for them.
