Discussion: Paul Ryan On Trump: My Endorsements Are Not 'Blank Checks'

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Prove it !

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They’re not worth the teabags they’re written on, Eddie.

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“when I did support Donald, I said at that time,…”

In the dim, dark past, not necessarily true any more.

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Coward

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If insulting Gold Star families, telling a mother to get her crying baby out of your convention, asking a foreign power to spy on your political opponents, refusing to endorse GOP elected officials who endorsed you after you begged them, claiming anyone of an entire religion is an existential threat to the United States, insulting firefighters for enforcing a contract your campaign signed isn’t enough to rescind your endorsement then there is no “bridge too far” and you have issued a “blank check.”

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Go ahead blow him Paul, you know you want to.

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Well, if he gives a specific hypothetical, Trump will be sure to test that limit.

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Thanks for the clarification, PR, but unless you denounce Trump, I’ll just assume you are one of his supporters–like these enthusiastic fellows below. That’s just seems to make the most sense to me.

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Sooo…

…you are still endorsing Trump and planning to vote for him, even though he has campaign workers working to get you kicked out of office and publicly dissed you and cheered your opponent.

Got it.

Your principles require you vote for the unprincipled.

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Wouldn’t matter anyway, they’re not worth anything even if there is an amount filled in…

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Conservative principles: Endorse, support, vote for the psychopath.

Republican principles: Gold Star Muslim Brotherhood Babies They Make Me So Mad!

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So, if I claim to be a Republican, I can shit all over Paul Ryan … and he’ll still have my back? Damn, talk about dedication (to the Party!).

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" Ryan indicated that he hasn’t given Trump a blank check,"

IOU instead ? And BTW Paulie you can’t explain the unexplainable.

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Ryan is still a cowardly POS. He still has not pulled his endorsement of Trump. So fuck him.

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In Russo-Republispeak, this is what you say right before you give Trump a blank check. I mean same shit, different day.

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Now look. The dude is shaking his fist with one arm and clutching his pearls with the other. He has no time be ethical or non-hypocritical.

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“I said at that time, and ever since then, if I see a situation where our conservative principles are being distorted, I’m going to stand up for those conservative principles,”

Is it that Trump has been true to Ryan’s principles. Or that Ryan has no principles?

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“When asked if there could “ever be a bridge too far” that might prompt him to pull his endorsement”

Bridge too far? Trump doesn’t do bridges. Trump is Evel Knievel trying to jump the Snake River Canyon and, like that stunt gone awriy, is now plummeting to the bottom…

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