AnnCoulter: After Paul Ryan helped Mitt Romney lose the 2012 election by doing the impossible — losing a debate to Joe Biden — he went on an intimate tour of poverty. It was a journey so personal, Ryan brought reporters, writers and documentary producers with him.
So far, he’s gotten one book and one documentary out of The Paul Ryan Intimate Poverty Tour — we’re still waiting for the tote bags — and is currently promoting a major poverty-fighting initiative that he brainstormed during private moments of reflection, somehow captured by the press: “The Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity.”
Appropriately for an event named after Ryan’s mentor, Jack Kemp, the forum will allow Ryan to showcase his deep concern for the poor without doing a thing to help them. This is the hallmark of the “empowerment” crowd. What matters is their own self-regard and favorable press notices, not accomplishing anything useful.
In the 1996 vice presidential debate, Al Gore repeatedly praised Kemp for not being a racist — unlike the rest of his party. After Gore called Kemp a “lonely voice” in the GOP, “who says we ought to be one nation,” Kemp did not say:
MY PARTY? YOUR PARTY HAS A FORMER KLAN MEMBER IN THE SENATE! YOUR FATHER VOTED AGAINST THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT! YOUR PARTY DESTROYED THE BLACK FAMILY!
No, Kemp’s response was: “Well, I thank you, Al. I mean that very, very sincerely.”
For all Kemp’s claims to being black America’s truest friend, he didn’t actually help any minorities. His famed “enterprise zones” were a renowned flop.
If Ryan ever was a decent guy, and I speak as a former fan, he needs to step down, spend some extended time back in Wisconsin, maybe in the family construction business, and reconnect to his roots.
Nine terms is too damn much time in Washington for a man who’s only 45.
Hell, it’s too damn much time for a man of ANY age!
Because right now he fairly reeks of being little more than a GOPe/CoC shill.
Ann, when are going to give him an amnesty wedgie? You promised.
We the People have lost again. It’s a long losing streak that is going to take us right into dissolution. The uniparty is despicable. I hate them all.