A Frontrunner Republicans Will Denounce but Not Reject

[Zaac]

A Frontrunner Republicans Will Denounce but Not Reject

Speaker Paul Ryan accused Donald Trump of proposing a Muslim ban that would violate the Constitution. But he’ll still support him if he’s the GOP nominee.

The Gordian Knot that Donald Trump has tied around the Republican Party tightened considerably when the presidential frontrunner issued his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

If there was any doubt, that bind became clear within the span of about 10 minutes during a press conference Speaker Paul Ryan held on Tuesday morning with the House Republican leadership in the Capitol. As the GOP’s top elected official in Washington, Ryan has pledged to stay publicly neutral in the party’s primary race. He ended his introductory remarks, however, with a strong denunciation of Trump’s proposal—delivered entirely without uttering the candidate’s name.

“Normally, I do not comment on what’s going on in the presidential election,” Ryan began. “I will take an exception today.”

This is not conservatism. What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for. Not only are there many Muslims serving in our armed forces, dying for this country, there are Muslims serving right here in the House, working everyday to uphold and to defend the Constitution.

Some of our best and biggest allies in this struggle and fight against radical Islamic terror are Muslims—the vast, vast, vast majority of whom are peaceful, who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights. I told our members this morning to always strive to live up to our highest ideals, those principles in the Constitution on which we swear every two years that we will defend.

Ryan also reminded reporters that when the House voted last month to suspend the Syrian refugee program, he made clear that there should be a security test—not “a religious test”—on people entering the U.S. Freedom of religion, he said, was a “founding constitutional principles.” His aides let it be known that Ryan had told Republican lawmakers in private that Trump’s proposal violated two different amendments in the Bill of Rights: the First and the Fourteenth.


Yet when it came time for questions, Ryan retreated to boilerplate. A reporter asked the obvious: Would Ryan support Trump if he became the Republican nominee for president?

“I’m going to support whoever the Republican nominee is,” the speaker replied, “and I’m going to stand up for what I believe in as I do that.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-paul-ryan-nominee-muslims/419448/

How do folks continue to fix their lips to say that they disagree with all the foolishness this man is saying, but if he's the Republican nominee, they will vote for him?

 

[church mouse guy]

I don't mind denouncing and rejecting Paul Ryan as a financial genius with the political skills of Nancy Pelosi. Paul Ryan was a compromise candidate to get rid of the crybaby John Boehner who kept kissing Nancy Pelosi.

 

[Use of Time]

Ryan is just as weak as Boehner. Strong Republican leadership needs to emerge and regain control of this party.

 

[Zaac]

Ryan is just as weak as Boehner. Strong Republican leadership needs to emerge and regain control of this party.

I think it may be beyond repair. It was bad in 2008. Worse in 2012. Now, it's just pathetic.

 

[church mouse guy]

Pelosi-Reid have been strong leaders for the Democrats and that is why Boehner kissed Pelosi all the time and cried like a baby all the time. Harry Reid is the greatest Mormon since Joe Smith Himself ran for President--look for Reid to be President of the Mormon Church someday.

 

[Alcott]

How do folks continue to fix their lips to say that they disagree with all the foolishness this man is saying, but if he's the Republican nominee, they will vote for him?

Because that will be the only anti-slickwillory vote.

 

[Zaac]

Because that will be the only anti-slickwillory vote.

The anti-slickwillory vote continues to make some of you who call yourselves Christians look like lost folks chasing after a golden calf. Yall sound like the lost person who thinks he's better than the saved person who may have killed someone in his past.

The devil could show up and introduce himself and some of yall would support him over the Democrat because you think the Democrat is worse.
It's sad when Dick Cheney slams your ideas.

 

[Alcott]

Supporters of either party could say, and have said, that the opposing party voters would vote for the devil if he ran as a ########. That's a mighty fer piece from original.

 

[Zaac]

Supporters of either party could say, and have said, that the opposing party voters would vote for the devil if he ran as a ########. That's a mighty fer piece from original.

I didn't say it was original. But it sure is apropos.

 

[kyredneck]

all the foolishness this man is saying

Foolishness? What kind of people are his supporters, fools? The Jews are saying his supporters are white & racist, is that what you think?

 

[Zaac]

Foolishness? What kind of people are his supporters, fools? The Jews are saying his supporters are white & racist, is that what you think?

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That's your word, not mine. It isn't incredibly surprising that he is resonating with white, uneducated men.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2610326/donald-trump-supporters-mostly-uneducated-new-poll-finds/

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/1...ally-are-racist-uneducated-hateful-buffoons/\

http://downtrend.com/donn-marten/washington-post-trump-success-attributed-to-uneducated-americans

 

[777]

You know, primary polling is notoriously inaccurate, even if the poll is done on the day before the election but I wonder what's up with polling "adults" - the real thing to look for is a poll of "likely voters" in this case.

Sounds like a liberal snob claiming that Trump voters are ignorant and uneducated - this is NOT the Democratic Party here, that is wrong tactic to use because by now everybody knows that the most ignorant and the poorest are virtually all Democrats, along with the most educated and wealthiest. It's everybody else in the middle that is the GOP base, so if 2/3 of Americans don't have a college degree, a good many of that 2/3 are Republicans. Trump is also polling well among millennials, I'd be more about that if all these polls are accurate. I can believe Trump polls well among the less educate, less affluent, because H1B visas excepted, open borders affects them the most.