Ryan: GOP Not Donald Trump’s Party

If Mr. Ryan now wants conservatives to trust and support him, he has an enormous amount of work to do and damage to repair.  As a man who seemed to support the policies of Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton more than his own party’s candidate for president, he has richly earned the distrust of conservatives, a sizeable chunk of whom would like to see him given the boot as speaker.

Mr. Ryan apparently has not figured out that you cannot have it both ways.  Politics is a take-no-prisoners business.  You cannot play footsie with the other party’s candidate for president, stab your own party’s candidate in the back, and then embrace your party’s candidate when he surprisingly wins like you were always a trusted supporter.  People are not that stupid, and they do not easily forget such duplicity.

So do we have a new chapter in the slippery world of Paul Ryan?

“What Donald Trump just pulled off is an enormous political feat. It’s an enormous feat in that he heard those voices that were out there that other people weren’t hearing. And he just earned a mandate. And we now just have a unified Republican government,” Ryan told reporters on Wednesday. “If you listened to us in the closing days of this campaign, whether it was crisscrossing America or crisscrossing Wisconsin, we were making an appeal to our fellow citizens and to all Republicans to come home to unify.”

What a guy, huh?  A solid Trump supporter.  Or is he?  Here’s what the “before presidential election” Paul Ryan had to say.

However, Ryan’s fawning regard for the president-elect on Wednesday seems markedly different from the Republican Speaker’s tone just one day prior to Tuesday’s election.

On Monday, Ryan joined strident #NeverTrump-er Wisconsin talk radio host Charlie Sykes to discuss the next day’s election.

“Although Donald Trump won the nomination ‘fair and square,’ the GOP is not his party, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Monday on a local radio show,” The Hill reported in a piece titled, “Ryan: GOP Not Donald Trump’s Party.”

“Although Donald Trump won the nomination…”  Doesn’t sound like very enthusiastic support, does it?

Despite Sykes’ and Ryan’s repeated denunciations of the Republican nominee, Trump not only won the presidential election (which Ryan was unable to do when he was on the GOP ticket), but he also won Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin (which Ryan was also unable to do when he was on the GOP ticket).

Trump ran on a platform that is in direct opposition to Ryan’s personal agenda– particularly on the key issues of trade, immigration, and crime. Ryan now says that Trump has earned a “mandate” from the American people.

If Ryan can flip to Trump so easily, might he flip back the other way if it suited him?  Trump shouldn’t trust him.

It is unclear whether the conservative House Freedom Caucus– led by Congressman Jim Jordan– will vote for Ryan to remain as House Speaker in light of the fact that Trump was given a “mandate” to enact policies that are the exact opposite of Ryan’s open borders, trade, and immigration agenda.

And we see the conservatives in the House don’t trust him either.  Give him the boot as speaker.

Source:  Breitbart