Business Insider via AOL has a story on Chuck Todd grilling Paul Ryan over his support for Donald Trump. Ryan dances around the fact that his party’s base has chosen a racist lying scumbag for a candidate.
"Imagine the Speaker of the House not supporting the duly elected nominee of our party, therefore creating a chasm in our party to split us in half, which basically helps deny us the White House and strong majorities in Congress," Ryan said.
"The last thing I want to see happen is another Democrat in the White House. I don't want see Hillary Clinton as president. I want to see a strong majority in the House and the Senate. And I think the way to achieve those goals is to have a more unified party, than a dis-unified party," he added.
Todd quickly jumped on Ryan's response.
"You just made a case though of party over country," Todd said.
"No, I didn't," Ryan replied. "I know Hillary Clinton won't agree with anything we want to do."
The spin Ryan is trying to push is that it doesn’t matter how bad Trump is — Hillary Clinton and the Democrats would be worse for America. The party must line up behind Trump, or else. Except the party, as Todd follows up, is busy trying to put daylight between Trump and them.
If you want a clear demonstration of the collapse of the Republican Party, this is one place to see it. There’s a certain amount of schadenfreude in watching Ryan trying to pose as a man of principle while trying to endorse a shit sandwich.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of con men and hypocrites.