Republicans you have nominated a clown, you have shown the world your party is the party of IGNORANCE. There is only one conservative in the race and that is the Neocon HRC, better just STFU and take your loss
Come on , Katrina’s had her 15 minutes of fame over and over again .
There’s an important thing to watch for here. That’s the degree to which Ryan is speaking personally and for his own interests and the degree to which he’s speaking as leader of the Republican caucus. (For the moment, I’m ignoring his role as Speaker of the entire House.) A major part of a legislative leader’s job is to protect the interests of his or her caucus members. Many, probably most, consider it their most important job. In my time as a legislative staff person that was certainly the case.
To the degree that Ryan is speaking for and protecting his members, the Republican caucus, he may be signaling something about their preferences and he’s likely signaling that he and perhaps they believe that Trump puts them at risk.
So a fight with Trump or his spokeswoman is just the surface. If they threaten Ryan, they are going beyond what may have been perceived as an implicit threat and to explicitly threatening House Republicans.
Watch this one closely.
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" inter-party " no less —
I dunno… I find myself in the unenviable position of agreeing with Pierson.
As the senior member of the party leadership, the head of the party until the convention, how can you not support your own candidate?
It would be a considerable demonstration of leadership for Ryan to say, “You know what? No. This is not what our party stands for. Voters be damned, the GOP will not become the party of Trump on my watch.” But that’s not going to happen. He’ll capitulate eventually.
And so, at the end of the day, the leader of the party has to support the nominee. It’s part of your job description. If you can’t do it, you need to pack it up and go home.
Paul just has to make it through today…thanks to his weekends off policy.
Because the world works around Mr. Ryan, doncha know?
“No, because this is about the party.”
No shit. There is not one damn thing the GOP’ers do that isn’t about the Party. Its all that matters: the Party. And one thing that Party does not tolerate is independent thinking. You think like you should or out you go.
If Ryan has any balls he’ll put the shaft to these assholes hard.
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Charlie Pierce is correct – Ryan’s shtick is to appear measured, cautious, rational – and then endorse Trump after a period of time suitable to reinforce Ryan’s rep as a reasonable, statesmanlike American who just happens to be a Republican.
I give him two weeks to get to “I will support the nominee,” and to formally endorse Trump by mid-June.
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Is it me, or is Ursa just infuriatingly wretched?
I can think of other countries where they’ve said “This is about The Party” when an elected official refuses to toe the party line.
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Tell me if I’m just being a bit wild-eyed but I think if, God forbid, that man become President, it would devolve in a very short time—a few months, maybe—into a worse crisis of leadership than the end stages of the Nixon administration. I think the circumstances would determine if it played out as an impeachment scenario, or a 25th amendment process, or some sort of government-wide boycott and refusal to do Trump’s bidding or what, but it would be pretty terrible. What I literally cannot imagine is this guy working within the system and having it function day to day. But I’m an excitable person so if you want to talk me in off this ledge I’m all ears.
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Which moron? Trump? Pierson? Romney? McCain? Ryan?
I agree!
The Trump vision for America–No independent thought! Get behind me, or else!
Paul Ryan has not been very effective or competent. He has been even worse than John Boehner, which a pretty low bar for competence. By smacking down, demeaning and insulting the Republican nominee, Paul Ryan shows the he does not have the temperament and is no longer the right person to represent and lead the House Republicans.
Katrina Pearson is right. Donald Trump is the conservative nominee and Princess Elsa Ryan should step down.
Princess Elsa Ryan had no problem brown nosing Mitt Romney, who enriched himself by firing employees and stealing their pensions, evading taxes and destroying American companies. Mitt Romney also proposed self-deportation with Pete Wilson, the infamously racist former California governor.
Pierson also said Trump’s rise is the result of party elites rejecting
the will of their own voters for the last several election cycles.
I’m sorry, did I miss the part where some other candidate was chosen to be the nominee by the majority of voters in the 2008 and 2012 primaries (something Trump will not accomplish) and they were replaced by the establishment’s nominee? Are you telling me all of the tea party candidates that have entered Congress over the last 6 years are parts of the establishment, not the voters? This woman really doesn’t have a firm grasp of how elections work does she?
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Whores just gotta…well, you know…
We can expect this kind of consensus-building if Trump ever takes the White House.
Or gets elected Dog Catcher.
NOTE THIS : After voting for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, Pierson joined the Tea Party movement,
OK, recall that she just said -
“We were told to hold our noses and vote for the sake of the party,” she said, citing failed GOP nominees Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
… apparently you did not hold your nose and vote for McCain - did you ?
She’s one more reason that Trump should go down in flames