Paul Ryan: We're in fight to retake soul of Republican Party

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/paul-ryan-were-in-fight-to-retake-soul-of-republican-party/ar-BBv73Qm?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

COLORADO SPRINGS -- House Speaker Paul Ryan told a donor audience convened by the billionaire Koch brothers that they're in a fight to "retake the soul" of the Republican Party.

"We have to do a better job of taking the moral high ground...showing [conservative] ideas in practice," Ryan said on Monday.

"And it will help us retake the soul of our own party, which we have our own challenges with these days."

-snip-

Ryan paused.

"We have a different kind of nominee now," he said, as the room began filling with laughter.

"He's unique."


Indeed, instead of the soul of the party you have the asshole of the party.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Do I have to say it?

What soul?

[63splitwindow]

25. I thought you would point out--- It ain't fuckin' funny Repugs!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Republican ideas in practice??

That's Donald Trump right there.
They don't recognize themselves in the mirror.

[rurallib]

3. Republicans have no soul. Period. And if you want to see republican ideas at work

look at what Brownback has done to Kansas. What a fucked up state.

[bullimiami]

4. Soul was long gone. Maybe they need to find a soul.

Start by renouncing Trump.

[Snotcicles]

5. Satan has plans for it. They shouldn't have sold it to begin with. nt

[liberal N proud]

6. Republicans sold their souls to Donald Trump

Trump is as close to the devil as humanity has seen since Hitler.

[elleng]

7. They let Tramp wreck it,

and IF we're all lucky, some sane Republicans, IF there are any left, will try to rebuild it. If they don't succeed, we're up the creek without a paddle for a long time.

[TheKentuckian]

40. Ridiculous. Trump is just the latest iteration of fucked up that wouldn't be

plausible or viable if not for decades of groundwork.

To pretend these avarice filled, racist, treasonous, bigoted, anti government, theocratic, voter disenfranchising, warmongering bunch of assholes were within eye shot with a ground based telescope of decent is delusional as the Free Market Jeebus riding a dinosaur folks.

No Bushs are not okay or even acceptable. Reagan was not even tolerable much less good, in fact the fucker was evil. Nixon wasn't an alright guy he was a damn wicked ass lying crook willing to undermine democracy and ride racism to power.

Trump isn't the root of the rot, he is but the most recent incarnation and isn't even the worst they have to offer.

What is up with the bizarre effort to whitewash the previous year's vile fucks? It almost seems some Democrats are more focused on wiping, dangling, and mainstreaming the Bush junta than the fucking TeaPubLieKLANs are.

If the TeaPubLieKLANs lost their soul it wasn't much more than crusty unwashed socks full of silverfish and roaches for many decades anyway.

[radical noodle]

8. The Republican Party should go back to their roots

and stop encouraging racism and gridlock.

[bekkilyn]

26. They've sadly declined a lot since Eisenhower. (nt)

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. What soul? They sold it years ago.

Up yours, Paulie.

[global1]

10. All These Years The Repug Party Supported All The Things That Trump Is Now Saying.....

They have couched their platform in all kind of coded and weasel words.

Now they have an unpolished candidate that has never been a politician - saying all those things that they veiled in coded and weasel words and they are being exposed. Trump is the Repug Party and the Repug Party is Trump.

The only way they can get back their sinful soul is if they repudiate Trump and take his nomination away from him - but they realize they can't. They made their bed - now they have to lie in it. And I mean 'lie'.

[meow2u3]

16. The repukes are only pissed off because of this

The Apricot Asshole has been saying out loud--and turning it up to 11--what the repunks actually think in private and spoke only in dog whistles. The only redeeming thing tRump did was to blow their cover and they don't like it.

[fizzgig]

28. apricot asshole.......

hadn't heard that one

[tblue37]

32. How about "Yammering Yam"? nt

[Eugene]

11. The Republican Party sold whatever soul it had many years ago.

Donald Trump represents the party's most vile ideas in practice
and the Republican establishment made it possible.
Nativism? Yes. White supremacy? Yes. Religious bigotry? Sure.

[Kathy M]

21. can I add the birther stuff to the list .....

[Metric System]

12. Trump is the soul of the Republican party in human form.

[unblock]

13. i think the last semblance of soul left with teddy roosevelt

[AgadorSparticus]

14. let me get this straight. for decades, you sold your soul to hatemongering

and now you want to "reclaim the soul of your party"? Good luck with that monster you created. Trump is not the problem. He is just a reflection of you and your f*cked up party. The republican party has been bathing in a toxic stew of hate, greed, racism, and bigotry and now wonders why it smells like shit? These people are ridiculous.

[DURHAM D]

15. Their soul is xenophobic, homophobic, sexist and racist.

What he means is they need to put their white sheet back on and cover their faces.

[Little Star]

17. Bingo!

[uponit7771]

35. +1

[MichiganVote]

18. Hard to know who tells the bigger lie. The repub. leadership is in it only for themselves.

[yellowcanine]

19. Mr. Ryan you sold your party's soul to the devil so you aren't going to get it back.

And you had better pay attention to your own soul because it appears Mr. Trump has it on loan.

[monmouth4]

20. I'm afraid that ship has sailed Paulie..Sorry..LOL..n/t

[niyad]

22. yikes, donnie and paulie and kochs, and other assorted assholes.

no wonder so many of us have been so sick these last few days.

[JustinL]

23. that's funny

Two weeks ago, he was telling us that the DNC would be an "infomercial" full of "politically correct moralizing." He must be panicking at the American people's embrace of that "politically correct moralizing," which is rightwingspeak for "extolling the values of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution."

[One of the 99]

24. The GOP had no soul

They haven't since Eisenhower.

[sofa king]

27. Recommendation: wooden stakes.

[True Dough]

29. This is the existing soul of the GOP

THE PARTY IS IN A DARK AND SCARY PLACE!

[63splitwindow]

30. ...

Resulting in http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141539080

[ffr]

31. Who gives a crap about these cronies, the party of NO!

Goodbye and good riddance. America has had enough of the GOP's Contract on America. FU!

In some ways it's nice to see Trump reflect exactly what GOP values represent; something few of us desire to see our country become.

Your turmoil works to bring democrats together like no dem speech probably could. And that's saying a lot, because last week's DNC was a barn burner of a great party!!!

[Jamaal510]

33. They got their

so-called "true conservative" that they whined about not getting in 2012, and now they're acting like they have buyer's remorse?

[JHB]

34. You're going to cast out the entire Conservative Movement?

Including yourself, Randian boy?

[Martin Eden]

36. The first step, Speaker Ryan, is to repudiate Donald Trump

But you won't do that because you, and the rest of your Party, sold your souls long ago.

[B Calm]

37. Only one reason why Ryan said this, the Koch Brothers don't like Trump.

[DFW]

38. They lost the fight. They are left with the "assoul" of the Republican Party

It appears most of them have not yet come to terms with that.

[Cosmocat]

39. Yeah, OK, like they were going to do things differently after 08 and 12

What the party stands for fundamentally (screwing over 99% of us to make 1% even richer) can't be openly advocated for, so they have to package it in a toxic mix of hatred and division.

So, good luck with that because I have news for you, Paul.

Your party has no soul.

[book_worm]

41. And yet you endorse Trump--end of argument.