President Ryan? By Gary Bauer
Speaking of Paul Ryan, the hot rumor in Washington is that GOP party insiders are planning to manipulate the convention so that neither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz wins the nomination. Instead, they want to nominate Paul Ryan.
For his part, Ryan has repeatedly denied that he is part of such an effort. He has saidthat the nominee should be someone who ran in the primaries.
During an interview with Megan Kelly, Ted Cruz blasted the idea that the party establishment might attempt to “parachute in some white knight.”
Conservative strategist Kellyanne Conaway added that the Trump and Cruz factions are united against any establishment plot to “subvert the entire will of the people” by nominating “somebody who has not been part of this process at all” or who “was soundly rejected by the voters and has since left the race.”
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said that such a move “could be the end of the Republican Party.” I think he could be right.
For the life of me, I don’t see how party elites could say they know better than the millions of voters who participated in the primaries and caucuses, and that they are going to reject both candidates who, between them, won the vast majority of the votes.
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