Paul Ryan Crushes Palin-Endorsed Candidate in Wisconsin Primary

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:20 pm

So we’re not getting rid of that do-nothing Paul Ryan and his glib, nonsensical solutions to nonexistent problems. At least, not any time soon. This is despite opposition from such conservative luminaries as Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter, ‘yuge Trumpites with hate in their hearts for the Speaker of the House.

You remember how Palin said “I think Paul Ryan is soon to be ‘Cantored.'” Well, Ryan won the Wisconsin Primary Tuesday by about 70 points.

Red State correctly called this primary a “formality,” with Leon H. Wolf writing,

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“[I]t’s still amusing that early Trump adopters like Ann Coulter, Mickey Kaus, and Sarah Palin tried to suggest that Paul Ryan was somehow in trouble because of the challenge presented by borderline insane Trump-humper extraordinaire Paul Nehlen.

Sure. That’s a hoot. So was Ryan’s victory speech, which was as empty of identifiable fact as anything else coming out of his office:

“There is a lot of anger that Washington just isn’t working. In times as uncertain as these, it is easy to resort to division. It’s simple to prey on people’s fears. That stuff sells, but it doesn’t stick. It doesn’t last. Most of all, it doesn’t work.”

Of course, we know why Washington isn’t working. It’s because of Ryan and his do-nothing House. They did nothing under Boehner, and they completely made up for it by doing absolutely nothing under Ryan. They do a lot of talking, but they don’t actually do anything else. Just lots of wonderful slogans.

Ryan turned the focus on President Obama, who is actually doing something about actual problems in Washington,

“We can’t afford another four years like the Obama years, and let it be very, very clear, that is exactly what Hillary Clinton and her party are offering.”

No, Republicans really can’t afford another four years of a Democrat trying to do anything, because it upsets their plan of screwing things up, blaming the Democrats for screwing things up, and then obstructing Democratic efforts to fix what they screwed up.

Nehlen was just as full of hot air as Ryan, saying in his concession speech, “We defied everyone’s expectations for his campaign. We took on the leader of the world’s globalist movement.”

The Republican primary was not about a collision of ideologies, but rather a collision of fantasies. All this means is that one fantasy won instead of another.

Paul Nehlen, Paul Ryan. The result for Democrats – and for the country – is unchanged, because nothing by any other name is still nothing.

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.