poor, clueless conservative gets a few things right, while undressing trump for what he is:

[Gabi Hayes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/opinion/campaign-stops/paul-ryans-long-hot-summer.html?_r=0

funny stuff about the lying randian ryan, mostly, but some excellent, searing descriptions about his standard bearer by this lunatic conservative Douthat:

There is no reason to believe that Trump’s conduct will get anything but crazier as the election actually approaches, especially if it appears that he’s guaranteed to lose. It’s very easy to imagine party unity cracking even more than it already has, Trump’s numbers tracing a downward spiral and G.O.P. turnout spiraling downward with them. In which case Ryan would have endured his long humiliation for exactly nothing.

The deeper problem is that Ryan’s reputation, his standing as a public figure, will not recover easily from what’s transpiring in presidential politics right now. Yes, the people of his district will presumably return him to the House even without Trump’s imprimatur, and his colleagues will probably return him to the speakership no matter who wins the White House.


But more than most politicians Ryan has always laid claim to a mix of moral and substantive authority;>>>MY hahahahaha here>>>> more than most he has sold himself to the right’s intelligentsia and the centrist media as one of Washington’s men of principle. And both that authority and that brand are being laid waste in this campaign.


Every time Ryan talks about patriotism, every time he talks about conservative ideals, the orange face of Trump seems to rise moon-like behind his shoulder — a reminder that this patriot and idealist is supporting, for the highest office in the republic and the most powerful position in the world, a man that he obviously knows (including, one assumes, from firsthand exposure) to be dangerous, unstable, unprincipled and unfit.

and there, at the end, lies the heart of the dilemma upon whose horns the maniacs have perched themselves. may they rot and by torn asunder by the same ravens that took apart Prometheus. Ryan, you are no fire bearer. you've spread the darkness, and now I hope you and yours pay the price.

[madaboutharry]

1. Read the comments.

They lay waste to the idea that Ryan has ever been anything other than an Ayn Rand loving little hack. The readers of the New York Times have more intellect than the writers who work for it.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. I used to post in their forum.....can't even get their comments at this point, because

of whatever long running script I have going here.

I love reading them when I can, even on you tube, if nothing for the insanely racist, ignorant rantings of the trumpeteers there.