Sell out, with me oh yeah
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Sometimes it’s annoying, but for the most part watching people do the shock horror routine when yet another establishment Republican hops aboard the Trumpernaut is pretty funny.
Evidently Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was drinking too much Trump Vodka on Thursday, as The Donald absconded with Ryan’s reputation as one of the few remaining conservatives of principle.
He was? Good grief, the GOP is in direr straits than even I had first been imagining. (What a strange, strange, line.)
Assuming the writer thinks ‘conservative of principle’ is a compliment, that is. And it appears he does, because he is very, very disappointed in Speaker Ryan, who gave candidates homework but then gave Trump an A even though he didn’t do it.
During Ryan’s holdout, Trump made no progress toward the goals Ryan said he needed to see from the presumptive GOP nominee — in fact, just in the past week, Trump has floated discredited conspiracy theories about former Clinton adviser Vince Foster’s death and attacked the ethnicity of a judge overseeing the Trump University case. Are these what pushed Ryan toward capitulation?
It’s almost as though Ryan, like the rest of the party, is interested in doing whatever he thinks sounds or looks best at the moment and relies on a combination of inherent dishonesty, egotism and the blinkered loyalty of his supporters to keep getting away with it.
And there will be a long-term price to pay. Any time Ryan stands before reporters detailing his positive agenda steeped in conservative principles, the podium should feature a giant asterisk — that is, House Republicans believe in the pillars of conservatism right up until the point when a puzzlingly hirsute man-baby decides to mock women, minorities and the handicapped.
Because the engraving on the pillars of conservatism clearly states that when stripping people of their rights, demonizing them, blocking their access to health care, poisoning their water, suppressing their wages and then calling them lazy when they can’t drag their sick and worn out bodies to three different jobs, it is absolutely forbidden to tease them.
However, I do wonder what price the writer thinks Ryan will pay, other than he – the writer – is now miffed with Ryan. Maybe he thinks that giant asterisk will fall on his foot.
When Ryan espouses political civility, ask him about his endorsement of America’s most prominent Obama birther. We now know that no person exists who is so disgusting that he is below Republican appeasement.
Yes, let’s get back to the G.O.D. when the GOP bent the knee to wise, rational people like Rush The Human Dog’s Pizzle Limbaugh. Or the Moral Majoritarians and their mutant offspring. That will keep things civil. At least for people who resemble Paul Ryan.
