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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Paul Ryan's Game Of Hard-To-Get

Mark Davis

Paul Ryan could have saved himself a lot of trouble the moment Donald Trump became the obvious Republican nominee. He could have stepped before a bank of microphones and said: 

“I congratulate Donald Trump for becoming the presumptive nominee of our party. I will obviously work with him to achieve the goal all Republicans share, the defeat of Hillary Clinton.

"But this has been a tough primary season, and there are voters who supported other candidates who have questions for Mr. Trump. I have questions for Mr. Trump. So as we move forward toward victory in November, I look forward to conversations with him in a quest for common ground. There will be differences, but none of those will outweigh the absolute necessity of preventing a third Obama term.”

Boom. Done. Was that so hard?........

So what’s with the hard-to-get? I’d hate to think it is to curry favor with the establishment elites who have finally discovered a spine in opposing Trump that they never showed in opposing Obama. After their meeting, just as people who actually want to beat Hillary were blistering Ryan for his cat-and-mouse game, you know the Trump-haters were grilling him from the other side for daring to show a sliver of tolerance for their nemesis. .....To Read More...

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