Ryan says Republicans should follow 'conscience' on Trump

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Politics | Fri Jun 17, 2016 2:38pm EDT

Ryan says Republicans should follow 'conscience' on Trump

Republican lawmakers should follow their conscience on whether to support Donald Trump in November's presidential election, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said in an interview, reflecting the party's unease over its White House candidate.

"The last thing I would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscience. Of course I wouldn't do that," the Republicans' most senior elected official said in excerpts released on Friday of an NBC interview set to air on Sunday.

Some Republican leaders and lawmakers in the House of Representatives are struggling to get behind the New York businessman, who last month became the party's presumptive nominee for the Nov. 8 election.

After an initial delay, Ryan has said he will back Trump but he has also acknowledged deep differences with him. He denounced as textbook racism Trump's criticism of a Mexican-American judge and has also criticized Trump's proposal - reiterated after the massacre of 49 people in a gay bar in Orlando on Sunday - to temporarily bar Muslims from the United States.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ryan-idUSKCN0Z326V

[gratuitous]

1. Oh, the comments

Disclaimer: Never read the comments.

I'm thinking about starting a list of the folks who post in the comments to stories like this about how Trump is going to sweep to this smashing victory in November, and how all you libruls are going to be sorry, and weeping copious tears, and hahaha all over you! Then, on November 9, visit their Facebook pages and just rub their pointy little noses in it.

But they're such hapless, miserable little people that they'll be suffering enough all on their own.

[villager]

2. Is that a bus engine I hear in the distance?

[C_U_L8R]

3. I can hear republicans asking...

'What if I don't have a conscience? What now?'

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. Republicans? Follow 'conscience'?

LMAO!

Conscience. Republicans.

HAHAHAhaaaaaaaaaaa!

[joeybee12]

5. How ironic...none of them has a conscience...knr

[meow2u3]

6. What conscience?

Their only sense of right and wrong is "right is what they want and wrong is when they're told no."