Ohh, what clinched it for you, Rep. Ryan? Was it Donald Trump calling the district judge hearing a lawsuit against him a "Mexican,” or the news that his scammy Trump University aggressively targeted people in desperate situations? Was it his attacks on fellow Republicans like Govs. Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez? What new Trump news this week deflated your Balloon of Supposed Principles so quickly?
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) endorsed Donald Trump for president on Thursday in an op-ed published in his hometown newspaper.
He doesn't actually use the "endorse" word, merely opines that he, personally, will be voting for Trump, but his campaign confirmed to the paper that it was indeed an endorsement. And what a show of convictions, burying it in a Thursday op-ed for a local paper!
Ryan starts off his rousing not-endorsing endorsing op-ed with an ode to self-pity.
When Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president one month ago, many Republicans like me faced a big question.
It doesn't get better. Yes, the torturous question faced by the Republican Speaker of the House is whether he could stomach supporting the Republican nominee for the presidency. This isn't usually a big deal, and not usually the subject of Hamlet-torn soliloquies. But as every other Republican supposedly wrestling with the difficult question of whether they can support an obvious and belligerent incompetent, he decides that it does not matter what sort of crapsack the would-be Republican president might be, at least he would be the a Republican crapsack. One that the House could send "ideas" to, and turn them into laws.
To enact these ideas, we need a Republican president willing to sign them into law. That’s why, when he sealed the nomination, I could not offer my support for Donald Trump before discussing policies and basic principles.
Which is adorable. Paul Ryan has spoken with Donald Trump and Donald Trump has assured him he will do certain things if he's made president—even though making promises and then breaking them after the contract is signed appears to be an ongoing Trump business model.
Oh, Paul Ryan. Remember when you had dreams, once? Ambitions? Now you're in John Boehner's old job, herding crackpots like Louie Gohmert around and bending knee as Donald Trump declares himself the Crackpot King. Good luck with all that.