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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation"
There's a phrase you don't read every day.
Link goes go George Will at National Review, so don't click if that sort of thing makes you twitchy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436245/paul-ryan-donald-trump-endorsement-high-price-paid
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)They are all scum of the earth, and, also dumb as they come.
Ryan is too stupid to simply wait out Trump's ludicrousness, so now he'll go down with it.
Of course, that is good. Very good.
spanone
(135,781 posts)yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)for some time. It has been at least since the first Reagan Carter debate, if not before, that Will's integrity went missing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/george-f-will-his-unethic_b_35251.html
So, unless you have access to some very old milk cartons, looking for George Will's integrity is probably a waste of time.
msongs
(67,347 posts)fault, it is ryans
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)Trump is just a crass version of St. Ronnie. You aided the destruction of the GOP even though you knew better. Live with it fool.
PJMcK
(21,988 posts)It's an important part of my weekly reading to look at the articles and opinion pieces published by The National Review as well as a few other "respectable" conservative outlets. As I've said elsewhere, it's valuable to read the opposition's writings to understand their perspective. It provides our side with possible strategies.
But this is especially fun because the Republican Establishment is going after their party's nominee! It's wonderful to watch these hypocrites self-destructing and jettisoning any semblance of principles or ethics. This was a particularly good quote from George Wills' column:
"Some say in extenuation of Ryans behavior that if he could not embrace Trump, he could not continue as speaker. But is Ryan, who was reluctant to become speaker, now more indispensable to the nations civic health than Trump is menacing to that health? Ryan could have enhanced that health by valuing it above his office."
I hope there'll be a lot more of this between now and November.
Thanks for bring the opinion piece to our attention, Shrek.