A 47-Year-Registered Republican Is Throwing In The Towel: Here's Why

[Ares]

RE: 2016 Congressional District Census

Dear Mr. Priebus:

I recently received from you a plea – your second notice – that I complete and return the survey of my views on current issues in the United States. My views would help the party develop a campaign strategy for the important weeks ahead.

I recently dropped my registration in the Republican Party, so my opinions are irrelevant to your survey. I do, however, hope that the views expressed in this note will be of help.

I have been a registered Republican since 1969. As I have gotten older and wiser, it has become apparent to me that the GOP is the second head (a donkey represents the other) of a creature that is run by wealthy, powerful, and evil entities which have gained control of nearly every institution and business in this country. Oh, the heads squabble dramatically for the voters, and are fairly successful in convincing us that they really have a different agenda for the future, but the charade is wearing thin. The emperor’s clothes are fading away. Enter Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, offering some truth that the powers-that-be find intolerable. I understand that none of this is news to you.

I cannot in good conscience support the Republican Party any longer. The attempts by a number of party leaders to undermine the primary process and otherwise derail the instincts of the voters who favor Mr. Trump is the last straw in a decades-long growing frustration with the apparent impotence of the Republicans. No impact on the progressive agenda as it has unfolded, even now, after nearly two years of control of the House and Senate, must lead to the inescapable conclusion that the GOP is cooperating with that agenda.

I am done with being lied to by party leaders.

As some leaders of the GOP have started expressing preference for Hillary Clinton over Mr. Trump, their true allegiance to the aforementioned powers rather than the American people becomes obvious. Their self-righteous condemnation of Trump’s views and persona only strengthen his popularity, because a lot of people, like me, are no longer impressed by anything these people have to say and assume the opposite must be true. I am always amused by complaints that Mr. Trump is a boorish, clumsy speaker. How many smooth-talking politicians have screwed over the American people during the past 50 years? I offer up our current president as a prime example, and I regret that Paul Ryan falls in the same category.

These are difficult times for our country and the world. It would help if there existed a political party that actually possessed a modicum of integrity and would actually fight for a healthy economy and a foreign policy that was based on some sort of realistic assessment of America’s place in the world. I suggest the reform of the GOP into an organization that actually pursues the values it espouses would change everything.

Sincerely...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-04/47-year-registered-republican-throwing-towel-heres-why

[cheka.]

late bitch

who is ron paul

[Ares]

late bitch

who is ron paul

Someone who sold out his beliefs and lacked the backbone to stand up to the party who fucked him over at the convention.

[EE_]

I wish I could do more to help Paul Nehlen oust RINO Ryan. A Nehlen win on Tuesday would be a huge blow to the establishment and would send shock waves through the republican party. This is a big deal.
I swear, if this primary was in my state, I'd be knocking on doors to help him win.

[Ares]

I wish I could do more to help Paul Nehlen oust RINO Ryan. A Nehlen win on Tuesday would be a huge blow to the establishment and would send shock waves through the republican party. This is a big deal.
I swear, if this primary was in my state, I'd be knocking on doors to help him win.

I'd be right there with you. That scum bag needs to go.

[midnight rambler]

I wish I could do more to help Paul Nehlen oust RINO Ryan.

Then pray, hard.

[cheka.]

Someone who sold out his beliefs and lacked the backbone to stand up to the party who fucked him over at the convention.

and that wasn't enough for the statist chump in the op

next he begins to question the jfk official story

[EE_]

Then pray, hard.

All my prayers are going for Hillary having a stroke right now.

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[EE_]

No Debates, No Open Press Events, Declining Fox News: Paul Ryan Running Scared in Final Days Ahead of Primary Election
by MATTHEW BOYLE 4 Aug 2016 JANESVILLE, Wisconsin

JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — House Speaker Paul Ryan’s policy record is collapsing among voters here under scrutiny from Republican challenger Paul Nehlen, so badly that Ryan is refusing to appear even on the Fox News Channel.
“We know Speaker Ryan, he’s been on this program many, many times,” Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy opened an interview with Nehlen on Thursday morning by saying. “We invited him to be on today.”

Later in the interview with Nehlen, Doocy divulged even more: “We did invite Speaker Ryan to appear today, and he declined.”



The fact that Ryan is shunning former media allies and generally refusing interviews except with his closest friends on local radio shows how terrified he and his team are ahead of next week’s primary showdown with Nehlen. No recent polling has been done on the race, so it’s unclear whether Nehlen is within striking distance here on Tuesday. But Ryan’s team is certainly taking nothing for granted, especially after last cycle’s embarrassing loss by then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA).

Republicans party-wide are aware that Nehlen may win, and are prepared to support him if he does beat Ryan.

“Of course, we always support the Republican nominee in every race,” Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director Sean Spicer told Breitbart News on Wednesday when asked if Reince Priebus and the RNC would back Nehlen in November if he topples Ryan next week.

Spicer did say that Priebus supports Ryan, however, and sources external to the RNC have confirmed to Breitbart News that Priebus has been putting his thumb on the scales in this primary pushing people to either not endorse Nehlen or to back Ryan.

Earlier this week, Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP presidential nominee, refused to endorse Ryan for Congress.

“I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country. We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I’m just not quite there yet. I’m not quite there yet,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Post.

His running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, did endorse Ryan later in the week.

“I strongly support Paul Ryan, strongly endorse his re-election,” Pence told Fox News. “He is a longtime friend. He’s a strong conservative leader. I believe we need Paul Ryan in leadership in the Congress of the United States.”

Ryan campaign spokesman Zack Roday in a statement after Trump’s refusal to endorse brushed it off.

“Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement,” Roday said. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless.”

Now that Ryan is declining most media appearances, Roday said he is focusing on local radio—and refusing to let press into any events he is doing.

“He did a WI radio show this morning and has 5 more radio hits over the next two days,” Roday said in an email to Breitbart News. “I’d hardly say that is ignoring the media. That’s a bit off, even for you. There will be guidance coming on upcoming open press opportunities. I might add that he’s prioritizing local media, not out of state media.”

Between now and the election, Ryan currently has no publicly announced open press events—though Roday says there is guidance coming regarding planned logistics for something open to press between now and Tuesday.

“Ryan has community events in the 1st District today and tomorrow, including business tours and other constituent events,” Roday said. “These are closed press, but he will be doing a series of WI radio interviews.”

Technically speaking, since he has nothing open on Thursday or Friday, that means there are only three days open to such events before the election: Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.

Roday wouldn’t answer if Ryan plans to do anything open to the press and the public between now and the election, however.

“There will be guidance coming on upcoming open press opportunities,” Roday said.

“You’ll get guidance when everyone else does,” he added, without confirming whether or not Ryan would ever actually interact with voters in a forum that isn’t controlled by his campaign between now and Tuesday.

Roday hasn’t answered whether Ryan would support Nehlen in the general election if Nehlen wins, like the RNC has confirmed it will. He hasn’t answered why Ryan won’t debate Nehlen, which Ryan continues to refuse to do. And he hasn’t answered whether Ryan will do any town halls with actual voters—without pre-scripted questions—here in his hometown of Janesville or anywhere in the district before the election.

In other words: Ryan is reeling right now. In reality, despite the Ryan campaign’s claims to the contrary, Trump’s refusal thus far to endorse Ryan has created a major headache for the Speaker’s campaign, as it has launched Nehlen into the stratosphere in terms of national—and local—attention. National reporters from the Washington Post, Politico and New York Times are crawling around Wisconsin’s first congressional district, while Nehlen takes the GOP mantle onto local and national television with his Fox News appearance on Thursday morning, MSNBC hit later in the day, and CNN yesterday.

“I’m supporting Donald Trump because Donald Trump is against this trade deal, this Trans Pacific Partnership, this job killing trade deal that is going to bring cheap labor into this country,” Nehlen said in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday. “That’s going to disproportionately hurt blacks and immigrants who are already here. Mr. Trump is also for securing the border, which Mr. Ryan is against.”

Nehlen continued by calling Ryan “the mercenary champion” of the Trans Pacific Partnership, “this absolutely job-killing, district-leveling trade deal that gives up U.S. sovereignty.”

A moment later, when Mitchell tried to catch him up on Trump, Nehlen fired back: “Why are you asking me questions about this? Why aren’t you asking me questions about the trade deal?”

After some crosstalk, Nehlen talked over Mitchell: “You should ask me about the trade deal.”

A flustered and indignant Mitchell replied: “I’ll decide what I want to ask you.”

After more back and forth with Mitchell about how Pence endorsed but Trump didn’t solely on the basis that Pence is friends with Ryan—and wasn’t supporting Ryan’s open borders policies—Nehlen trucked right on through with his populist message again.

“My message hasn’t changed from day one,” Nehlen said. “I would run on Trans Pacific Partnership alone. Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can’t say he doesn’t agree with it, because when he did that that contract was already written. It was already set up—that treaty was already set up.”

Nehlen was referring to how Ryan’s campaign website now inaccurately claims that “Paul is withholding his support for TPP because he believes President Obama did a poor job negotiating the agreement.”

Ryan has not withheld his support, either as Speaker of the House or beforehand when he was now-former Speaker John Boehner’s right hand man as the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for the Trans Pacific Partnership. He was the critical linchpin to driving the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) fast track authority bill that would grease the skids for congressional approval of the TPP through the House of Representatives.

In a joint op-ed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Wall Street Journal back in 2015, Ryan wrote that he supported the Trans Pacific Partnership—and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP).

“The United States is making headway on two historic trade agreements, one with 11 countries on the Pacific Rim and another with America’s friends in Europe,” Ryan and Cruz wrote. “These two agreements alone would mean greater access to a billion customers for American manufacturers, farmers and ranchers.”

The op-ed continued by noting that to pass those trade deals, Congress would need to approve TPA—which both Cruz and Ryan championed through the House and Senate. Cruz would later, on the second go-around, back out of supporting TPA but Ryan was the rock who carried it through troubled waters in Congress and got that portion of what’s become collectively known as Obamatrade passed.

In addition, Ryan’s campaign website incredibly claims that he is interested in securing the border.

“Paul Ryan has always said that securing the border is the first step to any immigration reform proposal,” Ryan’s website says. “More importantly, we need a President who will commit to work with Congress to effectively secure the border. Most recently, Paul led the House in successfully suing the President to overturn his executive order on amnesty.”

It adds that Ryan has pushed a variety of measures in the House on immigration security.

“Paul Ryan voted to provide $694 million for border security and enforcement of immigration and customs laws,” Ryan’s website says. “It includes $405 million for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to boost border security and law enforcement activities.”

“Paul Ryan has also voted for funding to build a border fence, hire 1,080 more border patrol agents, and require the DHS to control our borders and mandate that security fencing along the U.S. – Mexico border be constructed,” the website adds.

But that’s hardly a complete picture of Ryan’s positions on immigration. Paul Ryan is a champion of open borders. In fact, he supports comprehensive immigration reform packages like the U.S. Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill from 2013. NumbersUSA director of government relations Rosemary Jenks told Breitbart News back when Ryan was running for Speaker that a vote for Paul Ryan for Speaker of the House is a vote for amnesty.

“A vote for Paul Ryan is a vote for Gang of Eight style amnesty that includes massive increases in legal immigration and replacing American workers with foreign-born workers,” Jenks said. “A vote for Paul Ryan is a vote to continue Obama’s transformation of America.”

Ryan supports increasing immigration levels into the United States from foreign countries, and is even in league with the radical progressive Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on the matter. In fact, Gutierrez, as much an open borders zealot as Ryan, endorsed Ryan for Speaker.

“He would be good for the country,” Gutierrez said back then when Ryan was launching his speakership bid. “He would be good for the Republican Party. Paul Ryan is the kind of individual that would work with people on the other side of the aisle and that’s what we need.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/04/no-debates-no-open-press-events-declining-fox-news-paul-ryan-running-scared-final-days-ahead-primary-election/

[Joshua01]

All my prayers are going for Hillary having a stroke right now.

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From your lips to God's ears!!!

[Neuro]

I wish I could do more to help Paul Nehlen oust RINO Ryan. A Nehlen win on Tuesday would be a huge blow to the establishment and would send shock waves through the republican party. This is a big deal.
I swear, if this primary was in my state, I'd be knocking on doors to help him win.

Indeed it would put the heat on the neo-coms (communists) in the party who have ruled it for decades.

[Horn]

Indeed it would put the heat on the neo-coms (communists) in the party who have ruled it for decades.

Repuglicans reform themselves every six years and every year after that they look the same.

they're basically technocratic zionist piggies who have trouble looking good together for photo ops. take the Nehelen whatever guy and put him in office he will turn into Ryan Jr, in a months time. There is some sort of individual fat pig mold they must all drain themselves into.

Of course Democrats are worse because they actually make laws.

[Joshua01]

Repuglicans reform themselves every six years and every year after that they look the same.

they're basically technocratic zionist piggies who have trouble looking good together for photo ops. take the Nehelen whatever guy and put him in office he will turn into Ryan Jr, in a months time. There is some sort of individual fat pig mold they must all drain themselves into.

Of course Democrats are worse because they actually make laws.

Republicunts and Democunts are all robots in the drone army of the TPTB. They do what they're told to do, when they're told to do it

[Twisted Titan]

Someone who sold out his beliefs and lacked the backbone to stand up to the party who fucked him over at the convention.

Plus 4 million on that.

Trump is doing everything RD should have done calling out bullshit when he saw it.

Rather he did a bernie sanders and fell on his sword.

And just like bernie RP Didn't get a refund

[Celtic Rogue]

RE: 2016 Congressional District Census

Dear Mr. Priebus:

I recently received from you a plea – your second notice – that I complete and return the survey of my views on current issues in the United States. My views would help the party develop a campaign strategy for the important weeks ahead.

I recently dropped my registration in the Republican Party, so my opinions are irrelevant to your survey. I do, however, hope that the views expressed in this note will be of help.

I have been a registered Republican since 1969. As I have gotten older and wiser, it has become apparent to me that the GOP is the second head (a donkey represents the other) of a creature that is run by wealthy, powerful, and evil entities which have gained control of nearly every institution and business in this country. Oh, the heads squabble dramatically for the voters, and are fairly successful in convincing us that they really have a different agenda for the future, but the charade is wearing thin. The emperor’s clothes are fading away. Enter Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, offering some truth that the powers-that-be find intolerable. I understand that none of this is news to you.

I cannot in good conscience support the Republican Party any longer. The attempts by a number of party leaders to undermine the primary process and otherwise derail the instincts of the voters who favor Mr. Trump is the last straw in a decades-long growing frustration with the apparent impotence of the Republicans. No impact on the progressive agenda as it has unfolded, even now, after nearly two years of control of the House and Senate, must lead to the inescapable conclusion that the GOP is cooperating with that agenda.

I am done with being lied to by party leaders.

As some leaders of the GOP have started expressing preference for Hillary Clinton over Mr. Trump, their true allegiance to the aforementioned powers rather than the American people becomes obvious. Their self-righteous condemnation of Trump’s views and persona only strengthen his popularity, because a lot of people, like me, are no longer impressed by anything these people have to say and assume the opposite must be true. I am always amused by complaints that Mr. Trump is a boorish, clumsy speaker. How many smooth-talking politicians have screwed over the American people during the past 50 years? I offer up our current president as a prime example, and I regret that Paul Ryan falls in the same category.

These are difficult times for our country and the world. It would help if there existed a political party that actually possessed a modicum of integrity and would actually fight for a healthy economy and a foreign policy that was based on some sort of realistic assessment of America’s place in the world. I suggest the reform of the GOP into an organization that actually pursues the values it espouses would change everything.

Sincerely...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-04/47-year-registered-republican-throwing-towel-heres-why

LOL The delusional world that these sycophants live in amazes me!!! Who cares what party you are a member of or not! In the universe of how his action affects me.... he is nothing more than the excrement of a flea!

[Blink]

Who cares? Its all a show anyways. All you need to do is sit back bitch and watch it all fall apart (like everyone does anyways)......