Hey, Karl! Can you hear me now?

Last night, "pundit" Karl Rove opined that Donald Trump owes Paul Ryan a debt of gratitude. The other Fox people on the desk nearly broke out into a riot live, on the air. Too funny!

Today is a good day to review my post from May 2016:

Over and over, Karl Rove and his various mouthpieces have declared:

"Donald Trump will not be the nominee."

Back in October, I tried to tell one of the inner circle (an individual whom I will not, at this point, name):

"If you don't get out in front of this right now and put up a candidate who addresses the issues that the peasants beyond the moat care about, Donald Trump will take the party right out from under you."

I was told more than once in the hours long meeting:

"We must remain tethered to reality."

Here's your reality, Karl et al,...

Donald Trump is the 2016 GOP nominee.

And, today, Donald J. Trump is the President elect!

Hey, Karl, can you hear me now?

Neener Neener!

So great to have the endorsement and support of Paul Ryan. We will both be working very hard to Make America Great Again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2016

And this...

Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda.

Hey, Karl Rove et al, can you hear me now? I, the peasant beyond the moat, have been shouting at you for months.

Not Long Ago, Paul Ryan Didn't Have A Problem With Trump As The Nominee

POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE

Now that earth has moved with the dropping out of Cruz and Kasich, Ryan isn't comfortable.

From Politico, dated April 27, 2016 (hat tip to Joe Conservative):

Ryan: Trump 'comfortable' with my vision for GOP

House Speaker Paul Ryan downplayed any conflict between his detailed policy proposals and those pushed by Donald Trump on Wednesday, hours after the front-runner sewed up five more states and marched ever closer to locking up his party’s nomination....

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House Speaker Paul Ryan downplayed any conflict between his detailed policy proposals and those pushed by Donald Trump on Wednesday, hours after the front-runner sewed up five more states and marched ever closer to locking up his party’s nomination....

Read the rest to see that Ryan expects any GOP nominee to come into line with the policies which Ryan — that is, the GOP establishment — supports.

Trump is scheduled to meet with Ryan next week. What is Ryan expecting to come out of that meeting?

Additional reading (from Political Tea Leaves): The Bush Globalist Neocons Plot Third Way.

The GOP Betrayal Worsens

Just when you thought the betrayal wrought by the December 2015 omnibus bill couldn't be any worse.

GET A LOAD OF THIS!

Tweeted today by Conn Carroll, Communications Director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT):

Democrats were AGAINST tripling the H2B program http://thehill.com/homenews/house/263592-liberal-minority-dems-sound-off-against-omnibus …

This was a "Republican" ask.

HERE is the Tweet.

Paul Ryan: Eloquent!

Message clear but totally ignored by the mainstream media:

CNN Poll: Paul Ryan Won Debate Over Biden 48% – 44%

Wowza:

(CNN) – A CNN poll of debate watchers released following Thursday’s matchup between Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden showed 48% of respondents named Ryan the winner and 44% said Biden won.
The margin between the two candidates was within the poll’s five point sampling error. 

A poll taken immediately after last week’s first presidential debate showed a much more decisive victory for Mitt Romney. Sixty seven percent of debate watchers questioned said that the Republican nominee won the faceoff, with one in four saying that President Barack Obama was victorious.

Ace has this: 

Ryan Wins CNN's Poll of Undecided Likely Voters, 48-44%
Also Wins on Likability, Ryan 53% Biden 43%
AP Poll: Ryan 51%, Biden 43%

CNBC Poll: Paul Ryan Smokes Biden At Debate, 56% – 36%

Paul Ryan Must Be A Racist, Right? WRONG!

He dated a black woman while he was in college.

At Mediaite, we read this statement:

it is misleading to judge a politician’s racial sensitivity to their personal relationships with individuals with a minority background.

Next, I'll be hearing or reading "Paul Ryan is a racist because he didn't marry his black college-girlfriend."

Race, race, race. Can America not get past "the race problem"?

Some historical perspective, penned in 1888: "The Race Problem in America."

Video: The Path to Prosperity

Know the facts, and derail the Dems' path to victory in November:


Peggy Noonan on the necessary strategy:


As Ms. Noonan said:

The Democrats are going to say that he’s shark. He has to say that he’s the lifeboat.

Paul Ryan has to employ that strategy immediately BEFORE the mainstream media take charge of the issue.

Ladies and Gentleman, Your Republican Choices For President of the United States

Paul Ryan?!? 

Bad pick. 

Romney just threw the election, just like John McCain. 

Back in the early 80's, Devo made fun of this stereotype creating this image for themselves:


The image has become only more and more of a mockable stereotype in the years since.

That the Republican Party believes this is a winning image in this day and age, is sad.

It's a demographic/psychographic thing.

Romney and Ryan are two white guys.

Mitt Romney is the perfect stereotype of white guy, and Ryan is almost that as well.

Whites are a minority in this country.

Yet whites make up a large portion of those who would vote for a Republican for President. White men are pretty much wrapped up. If Romney wanted to win he had to bring in other constituencies, which he could have done by picking Rubio or Jindahl.

Instead, he doubled down on his own stereotype. It is not that a white man can not win the Presidency. It is that a stereotype white man stands little chance of winning the Presidency if he continually doubles down on stereotype.

As Romney does, and has done, and has now proven he will do again and again.

This is yet another boneheaded, tone-deaf, and impotent choice by the Republican party.

Say goodbye to the election, and say goodbye to the economy. We're in it for the long haul. Cuba, here we come.