Ryan Not Ready To Support Trump
Posted: May 05, 2016 4:09 PM
New: Ryan Tells CNN He's 'Not Ready to Support' Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan joined Jake Tapper on CNN Thursday to discuss whether or not he’ll endorse Donald Trump in the 2016 election, now that he’s the presumptive GOP nominee. Mitt Romney, who chose Ryan as his running mate in 2012, has already indicated he won’t support Trump, opting to skip this year’s RNC convention.
What about Ryan?
“To be perfectly candid, I’m not ready to support” Trump at this point, Ryan told Tapper.
“I don’t want to underplay what he accomplished,” Ryan continued. But, to unify the party, we need to do more than say it, we need to actually "advance our conservative principles," he insisted.
As of now, he's not sure Trump can do that.
Ryan’s comments perhaps come as no surprise, considering he has repeatedly denounced Trump’s campaign behavior since assuming the speakership. For instance, although he says he didn’t want to weigh in on the primary, Ryan made an exception in March after Trump proposed to ban Muslims from entering the country. That plan, Ryan said, “is not conservatism.”
Ryan noted he didn't think he'd have to make a decision so soon, expecting the race to at least last until June. As the chair of the GOP convention, Ryan hopes Trump will have proved by then he can unify the party.
"I hope to support his candidacy fully," he said.
This is political gamesmanship. Ryan is coming out of the blocks trying to see what positions Trump is going to agree with him on. But I will give credit to Ryan for identifying that Trump is not a traditional Conservative. The majority of his policies are far closer to the Progressive playbook than those of the Constitution.
Trump is more conservative than Ryan for sure.
Ryan pushed for getting our government away from gridlock and as a result promoted a BIG spending bill with deficits. Thats not what I thought conservatives did, but then again Ryan must have a different definition. He is indeed an establishment hack, and its hypocritical for him to get after Trump for not being "conservative"
The GOP keeps sending me donation questionnaires that feature House Speaker Paul Ryan.
I always answer one question by pointing out that Obama actually thanked caving wimp Paul Ryan for "making government work."
Before I sent back a Paul Ryan yesterday, I marked $10 as a donation.
What they got was a $10 off voucher from the Botanic Choice mail order company.
I only have fun on the GOP dime. If I have to supply the stamp, I simply trash the letter.
A pragmatist who is a dynamic leader
and
A Pragmatist who likes to chair meetings.
The best is to elect Trump and strengthen Ryan who can provide direction to a pragmatist who will feel lost as president. . Trump will work with Ryan if Ryan is strong and that depends on our vocal support of him to lead us to the gulch or at least a balanced smaller budget.
He wants Trump to shut up about the excesses of the establishment and join them in the madness. I hope Trump essentially tells Ryan that the old GOP and its group of power hungry party people is dead in the water. They are the Jeb Bush types and look how HE resonated with the actual voters.
Then Ryan rides in on a white horse and saves the party.
But maybe he is just hoping that Trump will offer him the job of VP. Ryan is certainly quisling enough to accept.
Trump won the primary. He probably is the only one of the bunch who would not treat Hillary as a respected politician that he just has policy differences with.
He'll say she's totally incompetent -- even though he will be called 'sexist' for saying so. And, of course, he'll be right.
I have no re registered Independent.
Question: Since I didn't give my permission to tamper with my vote and it was changed with out due process how is it not a violation of due process?
Mama Emma will answer that .....since this is now a closed forum
Actually Trump hasn't really won the primary yet -- he's just pretty sure to do so in the next month.
Whatever it's long overdue to clean up voting and the rest of it.
neither of the two major parts of the Government Party coalition see that subject area touched and sacrificing a Hillary or A Trump is not beyond them
As far as popular vote is concerned - if it isn't legal as it hasn't been for 240 years it isn't legal.
What does the establishment care. They have everything to lose and nothing to gain by doing anything else.
They know as well asany thinking person if the popular vote was a serious choice it would have been amended into legality decades ago.
I have thought that Kasich would be the VP pick for Trump. We will see.
Oh, sorry, that wouldn't work. Perot actually cared about his daughter.
I guess, like all things turned progressive, the old meanings don't apply.
Banning different groups for protection, because there are questions and concerns, we are justified by doing so. It has been done before. It's constitutional which WAS the original conservative intent.
Hmm...sounds like we're almost their...
Still think it's in the bag?
They will do what best serves themselves.
Including making a deal to dump Hillary and Trump.
It isn't that difficult.
And you don't count.
Come to think of it the convention could pick Ryan as the candidate. Bwa ha ha ha ha
Next thing you know Fiorina will replace Hillary.
At least Sanders knows the establishment is crooked and needs to be exposed. One would wonder what would happen if Sanders was Trump's VP. That ticket would win hands down in November. Capitalism vs socialism would get an open debate which I think would be good for everyone. They would both go after the establishment, with Sanders proposing socialism as the fix, and Trump keeping the dialog going openly in the direction of free markets. I just wonder what would happen. Neither of them are into political correctness and would say whats on their respective minds. A good thing.