The day that conservatives become incapable of understanding the nuances of policy will be the day the music dies.
Many within our Party have allowed themselves to oversimplify, to degrade, and overall reduce public discourse to a level so low that it’s barely recognizable. They’ve been co-opted by extreme nationalism, nativism, and what effectively amounts to isolationism. Paul Nehlen, Speaker Paul Ryan’s primary challenger, is a perfect example of this. Paul Nehlen isn’t a conservative; he’s an alt-conservative: Part of the angry, heavy-on-rhetoric-light-on-policy strain that is distinctly different from the optimistic, hopeful, and detailed vision for America which has been put forward by the House Republican Conference.
The art of governing is an institution far too great to confine to cheap soundbites or intellectually deaf rage directed at imaginary Establishment bogeymen. That isn’t what it means to be a Republican, and it certainly isn’t what it means to be a conservative. To constituents in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, I encourage you to vote Paul Ryan on Tuesday.
Anthony DeFazio is the President of American Individualists, and serves on the Communications team of the Loudoun County Republican Committee. Follow him on Twitter: @anthonyjdefazio
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Globalism will kill a free America just as it was killing the UK. We need more America First politicians, bureaucrats and citizens.
If it’s an incumbent flush it…simple way to damage the good old boy club. Ryan must go if for no other reason than he refuses to use the budget hammer to fight Obama and his like.
The read my lips post was quite good..This is rather pointless.
So what is your real motivation in asking citizens of Virginia to support Paul Ryan ????
Paul Ryan is not a conservative in any way shape or form. Conservatism
is as conservatism does – Paul Ryan talks but does not act or vote like a conservative. Godspeed to Paul Nehlan.
News Flash Paul Ryan isn’t a conservative either. The RINO Elephant strikes once again.
Ryan on Trump’s Muslim ban: ‘I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers’
washingtonexaminer.com
Where’s Ryan been hiding his gonads for the past 8 years of the Obama Administration while the POTUS and the SCOTUS have far exceeded their powers? Huh?
Ryan voted for TPA which fast tracked TPP for OBAMA! HUH?
TPP is the end of America’s sovereignty creating a borderless country. Ryan is a Globalist- he must be defeated.
Ryan hasn’t been hiding, he has been planning it. He is of the inner circle of the Uniparty. He most definitely needs to be Cantor’d. Anyone that still supports Ryan is either, too lazy to keep informed, stupid, or just flat out anti-American.
Sorry but… NO. Ryan needs to go. He is bought and paid for. The Chamber of Commerce owns him.
Why do we want a speaker of the house who has tried to backdoor Amnesty for illegals on multiple occasions? He has blatantly lied to the people. “We inherited this budget.” Um… Hello Mr Ryan, didn’t you chair the Budget Committee? Oh, so you AUTHORED the budget!
He has been in charge of the fiasco that is the most spineless party control over the house. I have given money to precisely two political candidates in my life. One is Dave Brat. The other is Nehlen. Because Ryan needs to be Cantored out of Washington.
Ryan was Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee prior to becoming Speaker.
You are correct. He did. What is the duty of the House Ways and Means Committee? Oh, yes, they are responsible for all taxation measures. All revenue raised by government (meaning extracted from the citizenry). So, I maintain that this is the budget he authored. I just had the name of the committee wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paul-ryan-stares-down-a-gop-revolt-in-his-back-yard/2016/08/06/fd2d12b0-5b24-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html
How did Ryan obtain a net worth of $7.8 million dollars serving in Congress? Hmm? Just like Dennis Hastert (R) – pedophile speaker from Rockford, Illinois who went to Washington with a net worth of $40,000 and left as Speaker of the House with a net worth in the many millions.
Oh, get REAL! He’s a credible candidate and he deserves to take Ryan down, I hope he does!
He may not be a conservative in your careful definition of the term but he’s not a RINO like Ryan who has supported Obama all along. Nehlen’s positions on issues are far more like the Tea Party than Ryan’s. You may consider the Tea Party not conservative but it will sure do thank RINOs on my issues!