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I could see Paul Ryan being president one day. Young, ambitious, from the Midwest. He's the perfect package for a potential conservative revolution in the 2020's like Reagan. It's possible. If Hillary Clinton wins in 2016, I don't know if she will be reelected. 12 years of party rule does not work out. It's like the Republicans from 1980 to 1992. If Bush I had beaten Clinton in '92, the Democrats would have easily won in 1996.
I doubt people will be in any better mood in four years. As speaker he is going to ruin any chance he ever had. People are sick of politicians promising one thing and doing another.
"There was a time that I would talk about a difference between 'makers' and 'takers' in our country, referring to people who accepted government benefits. But as I spent more time listening, and really learning the root causes of poverty, I realized something. I realized that I was wrong. 'Takers' wasn’t how to refer to a single mom stuck in a poverty trap, trying to take care of her family. Most people don’t want to be dependent. And to label a whole group of Americans that way was wrong. I shouldn’t castigate a large group of Americans to make a point."
One thing Trump can be thanked for is effectively killing the republican party. This is it. It's over on a presidential level. It has been dying for 20 years, now it is done. The repubs can field whoever they want, but the George Wallace ideology is not flying with the younger generations. Its like trying to sell a rotary dial phone to a kid with an iPhone. Just isnt gonna happen
While it's laudable that Ryan made a statement like this:
"I realized that I was wrong. 'Takers' wasn’t how to refer to a single mom stuck in a poverty trap, trying to take care of her family. Most people don’t want to be dependent. And to label a whole group of Americans that way was wrong. I shouldn’t castigate a large group of Americans to make a point."
It's perplexing that he needed to "talk to poor people" in order to understand this, since he himself benefited from and collected government benefits when his father died when he was a teenager. Has he forgotten that he was a "taker" at one time, and that "taking" is what allowed him to go to college? Or is it more a case that Ryan is an opportunist who says what he thinks voters want to hear?
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Paul Ryan Has An Epiphany?
