Paul Ryan stares down a GOP revolt in his back yard

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Post:

JANESVILLE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s red-brick Georgian revival house in this tree-lined, kid-filled Midwestern neighborhood has long been his “refuge,” as his wife calls it, from the divisive world of politics. But no more — not in this Donald Trump-fueled, anger-filled year for a Republican Party leader facing a primary challenge.

 

Fuming activists have inched close to the Wisconsin congressman’s property several times as part of protests that have drawn the notice of the U.S. Capitol Police detail that watches his residence. A nearby billboard has portrayed Ryan as soft on terrorism. At one sidewalk standoff, his primary opponent — Paul Nehlen, a 47-year-old businessman with tattooed biceps and a deep affinity for Trump — cast Ryan’s backyard fence as an elitist barricade that protects the speaker while his constituents are exposed to the dangers of illegal immigration.

 

“You should tear down your wall and show everyone that you will live under the same conditions as they do,” Nehlen declared last month as his backers, in matching navy blue T-shirts, stood in front of Ryan’s bushes. They nodded solemnly as he called Ryan a tool of “corporate masters.”

 

Perhaps the most unsettling moment came when a group of mothers whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants staked out Ryan’s home while he was inside and tried to confront him with poster-size images of the deceased. Breitbart News, the conservative outlet that has extensively chronicled Nehlen’s bid, wrote that “Ryan and members of his security detail fled from his guarded estate” after he was spotted slamming a door on his porch.

 

A blurry picture of the departing motorcade was pasted on the website alongside the article, which has drawn thousands of comments, nearly all of them harshly critical of Ryan.

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The Ryan revolt.

[Geee]

Paul Ryan is not a Senator. He only has to win with the people in his district - and WE like him. These other people are not in his district. He does not represent them. Go bug their own congressman.

[Valin]

Really looking forward to the wailing & gnashing of teeth at a certain site next Tuesday when Nehlen get beat like a bongo drum.

The thing I've noticed over the years is when you have a popular (and powerful) Congressman/woman it is always someone out of left field (or in this case right field) that challenges them. They have an ice cubes prayer in hell of winning, but 1.they get their name in the paper 2. get the nutters all worked up.