“If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices.” ~ House Speaker Paul Ryan.

When I heard Paul Ryan utter these words on Super Tuesday, I paused my television, rewound my DVR, and played it again…and then again…and then again!

If I were a cursing woman, I’d say something like, “Get the — you know what — out of here.” But since I don’t curse, I’ll just utter the infamous words of that notorious Republican, Joe Wilson, “You, lie!”

Someone needs to knock on Speaker Ryan’s door and tell him this truth — the Republican Party is all about preying on people’s prejudices!

I used to suspect that was one of the tenets of the Republican Party, especially through the coded language of “states rights,” and “welfare queens,” and that despicable Willie Horton ad that Papa Bush ran during his bid for the White House, playing on white people’s fears and beliefs that all black men commit crimes.

However, in the last seven years, I suspect this no more. I know it now to be a fact — the Republican Party thrives on fear and prejudices. Don’t believe me? Look at the people who call themselves Republicans. There is a reason why the majority of these voters:

. Think that President Obama was not born in this country.

. Think that President Obama is a Muslim.

. Want Muslims banned from entering the United States.

. Want Muslims tracked in this country.

. Want mosques closed.

There are many more issues, but it all shows the same thing — that a good majority of the Americans who call themselves Republicans have little respect or concern for people who do not look like them. And the Republicans politicians have kindled that, ignited that, and fueled that.

So please somebody…tell Speaker Ryan to go take several seats. No one is buying his self-righteous we are the party of Lincoln jargon. (Though that has never impressed me because Lincoln would have never ‘freed the slaves’ if he didn’t have to in order to keep the Union together, but that’s a different blog!)

All of those Republicans who are shocked and horrified now at Trump’s words — all Donald Trump is doing is saying out loud what every other Republican has been saying behind closed doors for a long, long time.

VCM