Steve Benen summarizes―
So, after dodging an easy question for nearly a year, Toomey will put off voting until late in the afternoon―75 minutes before polls close―and then he’ll grudgingly make an announcement about his preference.
―and on this occasion I must dissent: This is, quite clearly, not an easy question.
Ask Speaker Ryan; I hear the question started getting to him, by the end.
To the other, hemming and hawing probably beats attempting the dangerous and unadmired flip-flop-flip. Better to stand around looking like an idiot than to open your mouth and insist. Wait, that’s not how it goes, is it? Never mind. Republicans. The Party of Accountability. Values. Principles. Astounding. Or not. Whatever.
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Image notes: Top ― Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Everett, Washington, 30 August 2016. (Detail of frame via YouTube). Right ― U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). (Photo: Getty Images)
Benen, Steve. “Paul Ryan and the candidate who must not be named”. msnbc. 1 November 2016.
—————. “Paul Ryan’s principles waver at election’s finish line”. msnbc. 7 November 2016.
—————. “Pennsylvania’s Toomey not through playing presidential games”. msnbc. 8 November 2016.
—————. “Under fire from the right, Ryan condemns a Democratic dystopia”. msnbc. 18 October 2016.
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