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Paul Ryan: I Can’t Support Donald Trump … Right Now

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by CHARLIE SPIERING5 May 20164,386

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan asserted that he was unable to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee until he started acting more like a conservative and started uniting the party.

“Well to be perfectly candid with you, I’m not ready to do that yet,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview. “I am not there right now.”

Ryan insisted that Trump needed to do more to unite the Republican party, reminding him that it was the party of Lincoln, Reagan, and Jack Kemp.

“I do not want to underplay what he accomplished,” Ryan said, referring to Trump. “He needs to be congratulated for winning the delegates, but he inherited something special.”

He repeatedly called for Trump to work further to unite the party, before he would be willing to fully back him. He cited the need for Trump to recognize the political success of Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives. “I think he’s got some work to do,” Ryan said.

Ryan also called for Trump to “set aside bullying” and “belittlement” after becoming the Republican nominee.

But Ryan argued that this was not the time for Republicans to support Hillary Clinton.

“No one should support Hillary Clinton. Let’s make that clear,” he said, referring to himself as “just a guy giving you my piece of mind.”

He also appeared confident Trump could beat Clinton in the fall.

“I think yeah, we can beat Hillary Clinton. Yeah, are you kidding me?” he asked. “Yeah, it’s possible.”



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I guess he won't be Trump's running mate.

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He looks like one of those Muppet people in that picture.

Ryan is wishy washy. I don't trust him.



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But wait...he is just being a straight shooter and telling it like it is. He is just speaking his mind with no filter. I thought that was what everyone liked?! Or do they just like it when Trump does it? At least Speaker Ryan was professional about it.

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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

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He's an idiot. He has done NOTHING for the past two years in Congress.

The voters have spoken. This IS the Republican party. By "unity" he means get on board with what HE wants. That's BS. The voters don't want that.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 



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weltschmerz wrote:
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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 

 There are none so blind...

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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 Die-hard supporters of either candidate see only what they want to see, though.

Human nature, I know.

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But wait...he is just being a straight shooter and telling it like it is. He is just speaking his mind with no filter. I thought that was what everyone liked?! Or do they just like it when Trump does it? At least Speaker Ryan was professional about it.

 He's not telling a damn thing "like it is".  

He is under some delusion that he matters.  He thinks that unifying the party means to go along with what HE wants--despite outright rejection of that by the voters.



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Lawyerlady wrote:

I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 I think there is a good choice--for once in the last 20+ years.



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Trump is not a real conservative - he's been a Democrat all his life.

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Trump is not a real conservative - he's been a Democrat all his life.

 So what?  The "real" conservatives in Congress haven't done sh!t.  The last "conservative" president we had expanded the size of government more than any other president in history except the current one and possibly FDR.  

 

I dont care if he's conservative.  I want him to shake things up.



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weltschmerz wrote:
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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 

 Hillary too, she even changes her accent.



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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 Die-hard supporters of either candidate see only what they want to see, though.

Human nature, I know.

flan

 In this case it is the lesser of the two evils.



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Lindley wrote:
weltschmerz wrote:
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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 

 Hillary too, she even changes her accent.

Lindley for the win!   



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Lindley wrote:
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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 

 Hillary too, she even changes her accent.

 I'm waiting for her to break out in her best East L.A. accent, mon.



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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 I disagree.  We had some great choices.  Trump and Cruz, the best of the best.  Sure as H beats lame losers like McCain and Romney.  



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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 I disagree.  We had some great choices.  Trump and Cruz, the best of the best.  Sure as H beats lame losers like McCain and Romney.  

 I preferred Romney.



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I liked Romney until his recent stunt.



-- Edited by FNW on Friday 6th of May 2016 07:14:21 PM

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Trump is not a real conservative - he's been a Democrat all his life.

 If you look just at voter registration he has been:

Democrat

Republican

Reform

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None

Republican

 

I think he will be more liberal after the convention.



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weltschmerz wrote:
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Ryan changes his "stance" too often to be speaking his mind.

Same goes for Trump. Double. 

 Hillary too, she even changes her accent.

Lindley for the win!   

 Thanks☺  I really  dislike  that woman. Politics  aside I think she is evil. 



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I liked Romney until his recent stunt.



-- Edited by FNW on Friday 6th of May 2016 07:14:21 PM

   I didn't love Romney.  He is stiff.  Like the Al Gore Republican version.  I did respect his business background and acumen.  However, many of the Establishment candidates simply present what you want to believe they are versus what they actually are.  I was excited when he picked Paul Ryan and thought he was a great young conservative.  But, the more i learn about him the more he disgusts me.  In fact , Ryan is simply the younger version of Lindsay Graham who i think it was of the most disgusting,  pathetic men ever to hold an office.  He is swill.



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I agree. I agree with Lindley, too. I've known people who worked for the Clintons and the stories they told...none good.

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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 Die-hard supporters of either candidate see only what they want to see, though.

Human nature, I know.

flan

 In this case it is the lesser of the two evils.

 Far too many elections come down to this.

Which candidate scares me more? I think you all know the answer to that.

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Scares you? What are you scared of?

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I don't think anyone is blind in this election. There are just no good choices. You are having to selective who you view to be the least bad.

 I disagree.  We had some great choices.  Trump and Cruz, the best of the best.  Sure as H beats lame losers like McCain and Romney.  

 I preferred Romney.

 He's a loser.  He lost a VERY winnable election.  He was a poor choice of a candidate.

 

im not sure Trump can win, either, so from a purely political standpoint, he may not be a better candidate.

however, this election is not as winnable formthe Republicans no matter who the candidate was going to be.  People hate Hilary, true, but demographics keep shifting.



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Trump will resoundly beat Hillary. She can't even beat old man Bernie. Trump will pull in crossover votes. Trump will get blue collar Dems who like him. Hillary is far more unlikeable than Trump ever will be. She can't even win with Dems.

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More of Ryan being his usual lame self. I can't support Trump RIGHT NOW, waaahh! Take a stand you wimp.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Trump will resoundly beat Hillary. She can't even beat old man Bernie. Trump will pull in crossover votes. Trump will get blue collar Dems who like him. Hillary is far more unlikeable than Trump ever will be. She can't even win with Dems.

Lol! Hillary will hand Trump his a$$ on a platter.



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Uh huh. We will see now won't we?

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Trump will resoundly beat Hillary. She can't even beat old man Bernie. Trump will pull in crossover votes. Trump will get blue collar Dems who like him. Hillary is far more unlikeable than Trump ever will be. She can't even win with Dems.

 I hope you are right--but the dems buy a lot of votes.



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We’ve said over and over… and to no avail… that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump. During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he’s in the process of reneging on them. One of the first casualties was his opposition to a higher federal minimum wage.

Now there is a new victim. His tax plan.


Trump put out a tax plan last year that included major cuts to income, estate and business taxes for the ultra-wealthy along with far less generous cuts for the middle class. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimated his plan would cut the tax bill for the top 1 percent of earners by about $275,000 a year on average and for the top 0.1 percent by $1.3 million. The overall cost would be $9.5 trillion over a decade.



“I fight like hell to pay as little as possible,” Trump said at an event announcing his plan in September.

But that was the old Trump. Pressed by CNBC on Thursday as to how he could simultaneously brand himself as a populist who will take on wealthy elites while proposing sweeping tax cuts for billionaires, Trump backed away from his plan.

www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/05/05/breaking.-donald-trump-renounces-tax-plan/

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We’ve said over and over… and to no avail… that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump. During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he’s in the process of reneging on them. One of the first casualties was his opposition to a higher federal minimum wage.

Now there is a new victim. His tax plan.


Trump put out a tax plan last year that included major cuts to income, estate and business taxes for the ultra-wealthy along with far less generous cuts for the middle class. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimated his plan would cut the tax bill for the top 1 percent of earners by about $275,000 a year on average and for the top 0.1 percent by $1.3 million. The overall cost would be $9.5 trillion over a decade.



“I fight like hell to pay as little as possible,” Trump said at an event announcing his plan in September.

But that was the old Trump. Pressed by CNBC on Thursday as to how he could simultaneously brand himself as a populist who will take on wealthy elites while proposing sweeping tax cuts for billionaires, Trump backed away from his plan.

www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/05/05/breaking.-donald-trump-renounces-tax-plan/

More idiocy from the clueless and vulgar clown.

 We need to cut business taxes.  That is part of what is driving businesses to relocate overseas.  Our corporate tax rates are higher than almost every country in the EU.



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Trump will resoundly beat Hillary. She can't even beat old man Bernie. Trump will pull in crossover votes. Trump will get blue collar Dems who like him. Hillary is far more unlikeable than Trump ever will be. She can't even win with Dems.

 Ardent conservative Ben Howe may do the unthinkable when he enters his South Carolina voting station on Nov. 8.

Howe, who has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since Bob Dole ran for the office in 1996, may instead cast his ballot for conservative public enemy No. 1: Hillary Clinton.

"It's disheartening to think that I would have to pull the lever for someone whom I disagree with that much," said Howe, a contributing editor to the conservative blog RedState. "But such is the maniacal, sociopathic person that we have somehow found as our nominee."

Such is the antipathy held for Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, that some conservatives are considering supporting Clinton, so iconically loathed by many Republicans who view her as an unabashed liberal without morals or principles.

"Only Donald Trump could lift me beyond my visceral aversion I have for Hillary Clinton," said Tom Nichols, a former aide to a Republican senator and contributor to the conservative online magazine The Federalist.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-never-trump-republicans-conservatives-hillary-clinton-support-1.3567944



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Right now. I'm watching him screaming into the microphone, calling a woman a DOOFUS! and a basket case.
He's so presidential.
You should be proud.

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I am. Very proud. I am proud that America has had enough of political correctness and entitlement. Yup. Sure am!

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You call it not being politically correct.
Everyone else calls it being rude, crude and having no manners.

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Uh huh. We will see now won't we?

 Not according to you & your crystal ball. Why even bother having the election?

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You call it not being politically correct.
Everyone else calls it being rude, crude and having no manners.

 You forgot bloviating blowhard, misogynist, bully...

ALL those labels fit perfectly.

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I liked Romney until his recent stunt.



-- Edited by FNW on Friday 6th of May 2016 07:14:21 PM

 Me too!



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I'd call him a pig, but pigs have better manners.

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....yawn.... your outrage is boring me to tears.

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Trump is not a real conservative - he's been a Democrat all his life.

 If you look just at voter registration he has been:

Democrat

Republican

Reform

Democrat

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None

Republican

 

I think he will be more liberal after the convention.

 He's not that conservative on many issues.  He's a populist.

He breaks with the Republicans on trade issues, for sure.  He will also be more heavy-handed with the economy and penalties for companies that take jobs overseas.  I think we will see much higher tariffs--especially for goods produced by those companies.

He's also not that conservative when it comes to many social issues. It's not that he's FOR abortion or gay rights--he just really doesn't care about them one way or another.  They aren't really on his radar.  

He will be pretty conservative on military and foreign policy issues.  I think he'll try to reduce government spending as much as possible (about 2/3 of the budget is "locked in" in social security, medicare, and paying interest on the national debt).  He'll also have conservative tax policies.  

Gun rights are another issue he'll be pretty conservative on. 



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You call it not being politically correct.
Everyone else calls it being rude, crude and having no manners.

 No, not "everyone else"--mostly just a bunch of whiners. 



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