June 13: Ryan to Mitch McConnell: “Mitch! You said a teleprompter and a script would fix this! WTF do we do now?” Donald Trump Stuck to His Script. What Do GOP Leaders Say Now?
Face it Paul: you can come out of this with some principles intact; or you can support “Trump (R[acist])” for the White House. You can’t do both.
Was Ryan or McConnell or anyone from the RNC allowed to read the TelePrompTer speech before the short fingered vulgarian read it off? Who wrote that fucking thing, anyhow?
Paul Ryan is walking as tight and fine a line as he can. His long game is to play the moderate to Trumps whackadoodleness. Mildly condemn him when he has to, just enough to put some distance between them. Support him when he can, so that the rest of the Republican part is okay with him.
He’s doing his best to act the part of a statesman, keeping his cool in the face of a fluttering jackass and his fans. He’s playing the part of the only adult in the room to keep both sides from turning against him.
He only has to bide his time. I’d bet he’s confident of a Hillary win, but has to maintain face. He’ll run in 2020 and easily beat Hillary. Between now and then, the off-year voting will give him back the house and senate (or further empower the Republican hold on seats), he will have allies there, and a ‘mandate’ from the people.
Watch his manoeuvring from that perspective and everything really makes sense: play the long game.
Ryan, the pusillanimous little shit, will beat Hillary in 2020 in the Presidential race? Just not seeing that. He will have stiff competition in the primaries from Cruz, and possibly Walker and Cotton, who will court the Screaming Mimi vote. Which will come out strong after four years of the Vagina President.
Paul Ryan is the kind of guy that is going to lose the House for the Republican Party this year. No matter what Trump says or does, Ryan’s already endorsed him and won’t back away from that. Republicans who despise Trump will remember this, and stay home in droves. 2017 will have a Democratic House.
And Ryan only took the job with the condition that the party stayed in line. If they went batshit crazy, he was out.
Now it isn’t the House GOP that’s batshit crazy (or any more than usual) but instead the presumptive nominee. Ryan can’t quit without tanking his career, he can’t not support the nominee without tanking his career - so here he is going for a ride on the tilt o whirl - spinning at every opportunity and hoping he doesn’t spew.