Paul Ryan: Let’s face it, Obama’s trying to delegitimize the GOP
“If we play into his hands, we will betray the voters who supported us — and the country we mean to serve. We can’t let that happen. We have to be smart. We have to show prudence.”
Ryan took care to explain what he means by “prudence”:
What do I mean? Well, prudence is good judgment in the art of governing. Abraham Lincoln called it “one of the cardinal virtues.” And it’s our greatest obligation as public servants. We have to find the good in every situation—and choose the best means to achieve it. We have to make decisions anchored in reality—and take responsibility for the consequences. The prudent man is like a captain at sea. He doesn’t curse the wind. He uses it—to reach his destination.
I’m not saying we should be excessively cautious. When we see an opening—however small—we should take it. What I’m saying is, if we want to promote conservatism, we’ll need to use every tool at our disposal. Sometimes, we’ll have to reject the president’s proposals. And sometimes, we’ll have to make them better.
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Absolutely he is.
Delegitimize, divide, marginalize, and ultimately destroy.
The Dems are looking for one-party rule on a national scale, just like what they’ve achieved on a local scale in many parts of this country.
JimLennon on January 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM
Not if the RINOs beat him to it.
Flange on January 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM
How about we try to tear the Dems apart?
Pull a rift between Clintonians and Obamans
blatantblue on January 26, 2013 at 10:20 AM
I think that what Ryan is getting at is that we have to pick our battles so that Barry cannot get away with it. That means not rejecting the good in favor of an unattainable perfect. I was surprised that he was as generous as he was to a few of the Republican governors who haven’t been that generous to him – See Bobby Jindal and his implicit dig at Ryan and Krispy Kreme who is one of the main reasons that Congressman Ryan isn’t Vice President Ryan now.
Illinidiva on January 26, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Well there’s one thing the little boy can accomplish in his entire sorry career.
MelonCollie on January 26, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Then stop playing into his hands for chrissakes! Caving on tax hikes could be justified if you got major spending cuts in return, but instead you actually increased spending. Raising the debt ceiling is forgivable if you got a real budget in return. But instead you extended it for a few months under the ridiculous pretense that the Democrats will now negotiate in good faith in crafting a budget. This from the same bunch who’ve saddled us with continuing resolutions for nearly 3 years.
And now we have the Senate Republicans seemingly prepared to pass an amnesty bill. This despite Obama never even campaigning on it in 2012. Despite Harry Reid openly saying he won’t lift a finger to secure the border. Despite the prospect of millions of new Democrat voters being added to the rolls. And despite the amnesty candidate himself, John McCain, getting destroyed with Latino voters in 2008.
Obama is obviously trying to marginalize the Republican Party. But why in God’s name would you go along with it? The only reason I could accept is if the GOP leadership secretly decided to embrace the Let It Burn philosophy. But that can be achieved solely within the realm of spending and Obamacare. There’s no need to rubber stamp his entire agenda.
Doughboy on January 26, 2013 at 10:22 AM
The Akin wing of the GOP is doing a pretty effective job of delegitimizing the party all by itself.
cool breeze on January 26, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Let’s Face It the GOP has no soul
Stands for:
Low Taxes …… nope
Pro Family ….. nope
Sound Dollar … nope
Solid Military . nope
Will to Win …. Hell No
and with that I give you the modern moderate feckless helpless hapless pro-big government pro-big spending GOP ruling class
lm10001 on January 26, 2013 at 10:22 AM
let’s face it, the GOP is trying to delegitimize the GOP….
mittens on January 26, 2013 at 10:28 AM
It seems really obvious to me that the media and the Democrat party are now conspiring. Fit me with a tin foil hat if you want but this is ridiculous.
Cindy Munford on January 26, 2013 at 10:28 AM
I don’t know if they are trying but they sure are doing a great job.
Cindy Munford on January 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM
The GOP has been in the process of being delegitimitized for some time. Whether it is from GOP ineptitude, Dem/media political calculation, or both is open to debate. The big problem is that the presidential ticket that you were a part of did next to nothing to address the problem, or try to stop the bleeding in any way. And, unfortunately, we’re going to be four more years down this road before we get the kind of platform that a presidential campaign brings to have a good chance at making substantial progress against this character assassination. In other words, your whining now is annoying. And thanks for nothing.
besser tot als rot on January 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Ryan is right of course…on paper.
Reality however dictates a different course.
Being the good guy and trying to do what is right instead of what is necessary is a recipe for failure.
Obama and his cronies have won again because they play hardball and are not worried about the fallout of being ruthless.
If they are not prepared to rip the Democrats to shreds then they will lose the next big battle too.
Also they need to be a little more hostile to Obama’s media palace guards who only are looking to embarrass and humiliate them at every opportunity.
NeoKong on January 26, 2013 at 10:45 AM
you know how sometimes it seems that within families and close knit groups the members seem to be more critical and sometimes downright mean to each other than any one of them are to outsiders? hello republican’ts. democrats do not have this problem- and barry has allowed them a superior white guilt defense shield from responsibility for the things they say about conservatives and now the tyrannical things they are doing. and while this is going on-all while it was going on as far back as 2007, the GOP dysfunctional family has been happily abetting their own destruction- by not standing up to barry, by not rallying around the likes of sarah palin when she was viciously attacked, by distancing themselves from the wrongly smeared TeaParty, by destroying their own candidates while refusing to use the same tactics on king barry.
now they feel and are acting like gutted fish…when they about placed themselves on liberals’ hooks. but they’d rather be hanging from those hooks than shorn of their own personal power.
mittens on January 26, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Also: sun rising in east, water.. wet.
Purple Fury on January 26, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Lets face it, if the GOP can be delegitimized it is their own incompetence that allows it.
Frankly, I think the delegitimatizing comes from 5th column turds like Romney and Ryan. So, it is not really incompetence, but rather sabotage by our “own”.
astonerii on January 26, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Barky’s an inept idiot. The GOP is delegitimizing itself, as can be seen with the idiotic nomination of the author of RomneyCare who couldn’t be bothered to attack Barkya nd the left on anything, their more recent re-election of that miserable loser azzwipe, the Weeping Boner, who was the worst Speaker in a long time and a generally incompetent negotiator of any sort, and their new rush to political suicide (for the second time in less than a decade) with amnesty.
barky is just being his America-hating Indonesian, 84 IQ self. The GOP is on another rush to make itself a pariah and alienate its base, as they promptly got started on right after the Tea Party gave them back some power in the 2010 elections and the GOP immediately turned around and colluded with the treasonous dems on that criminal lame duck session and continued with the vilification of the Tea Party (though the Weeping Boner had to express that he “understood” the insane, demented, and criminal Occupoopers) ever since, caving to Barky on just about everything they could and not doing jack to repeal BarkyCare or force the Senate to actually pass a budget, even as they held votes for debt-limit raises and CRs over and over and over. And Paul Ryan lent his own vote to more than a few awful, disgusting bills that he should be ashamed of.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 26, 2013 at 11:04 AM
I told you so…
Genuine on January 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM
THIS!! + a Gazillion!
Jackalope on January 26, 2013 at 12:39 PM