Are Conservatives That Stupid?

In his public response to the recent win by Democrat Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, Paul Ryan said Lamb won because he “ran as a Conservative”. Among other things, Ryan said Lamb was “Pro-life”.  He also said that Republicans cannot afford to be “massively outspent as was the case with these two candidates” (a wink to his donor class).

Further, Ryan claimed that had Donald Trump not gone down to “campaign” for the Republican Saccone, the victory for Lamb would have looked more like a landslide. What in the hell is that saying? Does Ryan love Trump that much to so blatantly mislead?

Every Conservative Republican should feel insulted right down to their Don’t Tread on Me bumper stickers.

The fact is that Saccone forces outspent Lamb 2 to 1. If you count just money coming in from sources outside the individual campaigns, Lamb was outspent 5 to 1. Thirteen million dollars was spent by Republicans in that race portraying Lamb as a bleeding heart, Liberal, Nancy Pelosi Democrat. Per Ryan, Conservative Republicans saw through that tsunami of Republican spending to see the “Conservative Champion” that Lamb truly was, instead of voting for the actual Republican…right.

Impressively (as far as I’m concerned), Ryan definitively has given “Pro-life” a new definition for Republicans. 

Conor Lamb openly and actively supported “Pro-choice” and Roe v Wade while also stating his choice, were he a woman, would be not to have an abortion. So let it now be proclaimed that if you oppose abortion personally and want that decision to be freely chosen by you, not by government legislation, then you are Pro-life!

Opening the door to the fact that no woman gets pregnant because she wants to have an abortion would go a long way toward finding middle ground between militant positions. Such would reduce far more abortions than punitive laws and restrictive health care. Everyone wins. Good for you Paul.

The first I heard the talking point that “two Conservative Republicans” had been running in PA’s 18^th Congressional District was on Fox & Friends at 6:15am the morning after the election.  I then saw that talking point popping up among Republican spokesman and politicians everywhere.  Because it is so ludicrous on its face you have to ask the question: what in the blazes is going on? Who’s in charge of what?

If they wanted to avoid the reality that they have an unstable, angry clown in the White House, they could have simply pointed out one fact: that Lamb was a better candidate. Rather than trying to adopt him. The Trump mantra that Republicans will believe and accept anything given to them degrades anyone who believes in legitimate Conservative issues.

When Trump rallies the faithful at one of his tabernacle-style gatherings he is simply saying over and over; you are all my “Mikeys” and you’ll eat anything I feed you. I want to think that’s not true. 

With the prophetic words of a young Loretta Lynn; “I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid”, perhaps Conservatives will begin to educate themselves and not accept Republican leadership or Fox News treating them like idiots.