This is an article on Right Wisconsin. He is described as a wealthy businessman with Tea Party ties who has promised his run will shake up the establishment in a profound way.
He supported Ryan and feels betrayed by the Ryan's omnibus deal.
Paul Nehlen wrote the piece on American Thinker that stakes out his position. It boils down to Washington has developed into an elite class that considers themselves separate and distinct from the people they are meant to represent. He describes how Ryan's speech indicates that Ryan considers himself ruler whose job it is to rally the ruled and unite them. Soaring rhetoric with roles of master and servant reversed.
This was linked on Drudge, presently only 102 comments, so far they all follow this same line. The key word throughout "representation." I don't know why this is so difficult to internalize. One commenter said that this is what he had been trying to explain to his relatives and friends without much success.
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The linked source in Chip's post goes to Right Wisconsin, an online conservative blog. RW is run by Charles Sykes, a Milwaukee area talk radio host. Sykes arrogantly credits himself with the election(s) of Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, Scott Walker and others. I doubt that Paul Nehlen will get a fair airing on Sykes's radio program, which reaches most of Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District. We'll see as time passes, and Sykes ratchets down his current focus on politically assassinating Donald Trump in the April 5th primary election.
I don't know Paul Nehlen. Never heard of him, never met him.
Nehlen has written an interesting article in American Thinker magazine, linked here. Clicking on Nehlen's name on the byline pops up a list of other articles he has has published in American Thinker.
Ryan is very powerful. Nehlen is going to have to be an extraordinarily skilled rookie politician to overcome that. At least a capable candidate is putting Ryan through the primary process. It is long overdue. And I say that as a former Ryan supporter.
Trump went on the Sykes show and did OK, apparently. I'm sure everybody's full of the Marquette poll on the Uni-Party side, but there are some caveats.
The party breakdown has 36% independents and 32% Demos, which seems a little off. Also 70% of the respondents were Milwaukee residents, which seems very off.
Michael Haz said...
The linked source in Chip's post goes to Right Wisconsin, an online conservative blog. RW is run by Charles Sykes, a Milwaukee area talk radio host. Sykes arrogantly credits himself with the election(s) of Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, Scott Walker and others
If Sykes got Ryan elected, he's no Conservative. More like libertarian, they seem to like masquerading as Conservatives when it suits their purpose.
PS Anybody else notice that, since Rush told us the McConnell crowd hates trump, but fears Cruz, there's a NeverTrump, but not a NeverCruz?
Kinda makes you think the Uni-Party's OK with the One True Ted.
I believe that there is a NeverTrump, but not a PositiveAnyoneElse, because nobody trusts those other people running, or what their platform consists of.
Interesting point.
I'm just making note of what seems to be an interesting contradiction.
"If Sykes got Ryan elected, he's no Conservative. More like libertarian..."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ed, do us all a favor and stop embarrassing yourself on subjects of which you so obviously have no knowledge. Sykes is as Conservative Republican as they come. And you follow that up with a trip further down the rabbit hole by suggesting that "Big Gov" Ryan is somehow associated with/supported by Libertarians?!? Your flippant abuse of both language and reason boggles the imagination.
PS- Ed wins today's trifecta of asininity before 9am Central: of course there's a NeverCruz Twitter feed. It's been around for months. Might I suggest a future course of at least 30 seconds of Google search before posting more ridiculous claptrap?
edutcher - Interesting comment about the Marquette poll. I haven't unpacked the data, but Cruz at +10% is nonsense. The private polling I've seen has the election essentially tied, but within the margin of error. My gut says Cruz wins by <3%.
The Marquette poll is sometimes reliable, and sometimes goes off the tracks, like when it had Mary Burke leading Scott Walker +10% at the midpoint of the most recent gubernatorial race. Like the current poll, that one has significant sample errors, and probably some built-in confirmation bias.
My gut tells me Cruz >10%.
Seeing lots of private email buzz with Wisconsin Kasich (formerly Walker then Rubio) voters last minute switching to Cruz.
It seems to be all about deflecting Trump's glide path.
Chip:
"Paul Nehlen wrote the piece on American Thinker that stakes out his position. It boils down to Washington has developed into an elite class that considers themselves separate and distinct from the people they are meant to represent."
They are separate and distinct from us on the level that they were voted in to represent us. And as I have understood it, not to blindly vote as districts' wish on all issues, but to use judgement when casting most votes.
Yes, some are voted in with a mandate, and are morally bound to carry those out, but generally speaking, a representative is elected to use his judgement.
Michael Haz said...
edutcher - Interesting comment about the Marquette poll. I haven't unpacked the data, but Cruz at +10% is nonsense. The private polling I've seen has the election essentially tied, but within the margin of error. My gut says Cruz wins by <3%.
PPP seems to agree with you. Dead heat.
Here's the data on Marquette.
FWIW Here's one from an outfit called Optimus Research which had Trump leading Kasich (second) and the One True Ted in a 4 point spread.
Riddle me something, Batguy. WI just doesn't seem like Cruz country to me, but I would think Kasich might do well there.
Or am I insane?
Calypso Facto said...
Ed wins today's trifecta of asininity before 9am Central: of course there's a NeverCruz Twitter feed.
Funny how we've never heard of it.
Asininity is where you find it. Some of us don't have to look, it is just forced upon us.
Deborah, I know that. I know how it's supposed to work. It's based on trust that they know more details once there. But that is not what we have. We have a separate class. A distinct discrete class. And that's now what this is supposed to be about. The base does not want wide open and unprotected borders and wide open visa policies. But that's what we have. Over decades election cycles. That is betrayal and not using their more refined judgement. Conservatives are sick and tired and fed up and had enough and boiling over and bursting with resentment about not being represented.
Again. What is so difficult for this to be internalized? It's a goddamn representative government and Ryan speaks and writes as master. He was sent to Washington to fight for his base not blend and do what is smoothest for all. If it was the tea party force that projected Ryan to Washington then it will be tea party force that removes him for betrayal, the betrayal described as not representing his base of supporters.
Thanks for linking to Nehlen's piece. Well done. I just sent it to my son to read, which probably doesn't (and shouldn't) mean anything to you all, but it's high praise from me. : )
Riddle me something, Batguy. WI just doesn't seem like Cruz country to me....
Trump has been hammered non-stop by talk radio reaching the WOWW counties - Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Walworth - the four most conservative voting counties in Wisconsin, and probably in the nation. Talkers Sykes, Weber, McKenna and Belling have been non-stop anti-Trump since he announced. That kind of hammering will influence a LOT of conservatives to vote for Cruz.
To a lesser extent, Jerry Bader in Green Bay has done the same thing, so the northern Fox River Valley will turn out for Cruz as well. National media has also been hammering Trump.
Now watch, after Cruz wins Wisconsin, national media will turn on him the instant the next round of marital infidelity claims are made. What they really want is a Romney/Ryan ticket. None of this outsider nonsense will be tolerated!
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