ICYMI: How much Paul Ryan hypocrisy do we have to tolerate this year?
Washington Post
By Stephen Stromberg
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), in an uplifting address on the state of American politics in March:
We question each other’s ideas — vigorously — but we don’t question each other’s motives. If someone has a bad idea, we don’t think they’re a bad person. We just think they have a bad idea. People with different ideas are not traitors. They are not our enemies. …
When passions flair, ugliness is sometimes inevitable. But we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm. We should demand better from ourselves and from one another.
A Ryan fundraising email sent out Wednesday, per CNBC’s Teddy Schleifer and the Daily 202:
I worry about what will happen if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
Her scandals should disqualify her from ever holding a political office — yet Democrats want to elect her to the highest office in the land.
Imagine the poisonous trickle-down effect it would have on our democracy if she is elected.
A Hillary Clinton win, in essence, would be granting her a free pass for her illegal and corrupt behavior.
Someone should remind Ryan that he endorsed Donald Trump, who should be disqualified from office based not on exaggerated claims and uncharitable speculations about what he has done, but on the incontrovertible record.
“We don’t shut down on people — and we don’t shut people down,” Ryan said in March. “We test their assumptions. And while we’re at it, we test our own assumptions too.”
“I’m certainly not going to stand here and tell you I have always met this standard,” he added.
Yes — like right now.