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<\/a>House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, is being challenged in the Aug. 9 Wisconsin primary by businessman Paul Nehlen, right.<\/p><\/div>\n
If House Speaker Paul Ryan\u2019s own Facebook page is any indication of how well he will fare in next Tuesday\u2019s all-important primary race against upstart challenger Paul Nehlen, it might not be smooth sailing for the 16-year incumbent come Election Day.<\/p>\n
In fact, Ryan\u2019s campaign is showing signs of \u201cmelting down,\u201d at least if social media is to be taken as a barometer. The level of antipathy toward Ryan on his two Facebook sites has been heating up in recent days as the election draws closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s such a deluge of comments negative to Paul Ryan on Ryan\u2019s own Facebook site<\/a>. Ryan\u2019s problems with Trump are also a big factor in the backlash, you can see that in the comments,\u201d said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, or ALIPAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n ALIPAC launched a new ad campaign earlier this week casting Ryan and \u201cLyin Ryan,\u201d a politician who supports Obama\u2019s amnesty orders and his expanded refugee resettlement programs, which funnel Shariah-compliant Muslims into more than 200 U.S. cities and towns from Syrian, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia by the tens of thousands annually.<\/p>\n The stream of Facebook comments are more than 90 percent negative against Ryan as voters express their disgust with Ryan\u2019s stance on trade and immigration.<\/p>\n Gheen said he noticed this momentum against Ryan started 48 hours after a WND article about Ryan\u2019s pro-refugee stance<\/a> and the new ad campaign was linked to the Drudge Report.<\/p>\n The GOP primary race for Wisconsin\u2019s first congressional district has come into national focus as Nehlen has shown himself more than capable of taking on the Ryan juggernaut. Ryan started out with a massive lead over the unknown Nehlen, an inventor who has employed hundreds in his successful water-filtration manufacturing business over the years.<\/p>\n As a one-time Ryan supporter, Nehlen decided to run against him because of the damaging effect Ryan-supported secret trade deals were having on all but the largest U.S. businesses. Immigration is his other hot-button issue, and he supports GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on the need to rein it in, build a wall on the U.S. southern border and take a hard look at the numbers of Muslim migrants flooding into the country.<\/p>\n Gheen says he senses a turn in the race similar to what happened in Virginia in 2014, when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor went down in a stunning defeat to an unknown candidate named Dave Brat.<\/p>\n \u201cThe negative reaction we are seeing against Paul Ryan nationally is stronger than what we saw brewing against Eric Cantor the week before his political demise in 2014,\u201d said Gheen.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a general rule of thumb in politics that the candidate who spends the most wins 94 percent of the time.<\/p>\n But there are exceptions, and often those exceptions occur when the underdog makes immigration his or her biggest issue, Gheen said.<\/p>\n Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., got outspent by Cantor by a 40 to 1 margin, yet Brat was able to vault ahead of a well-financed incumbent and shock the GOP establishment. Nehlen hopes to do the same. Ryan\u2019s strategy to counter the \u201cCantor effect\u201d has been to simply misrepresent himself on immigration, lying about his desire to tighten up the border and implement better screening for refugees, Gheen said.<\/p>\n This despite the fact that Ryan negotiated a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill in December 2015 that fully funded all of Obama\u2019s amnesty and refugee expansion plans.<\/p>\n \u201cBut let\u2019s not kid ourselves, Paul Ryan is a Goliath, and whether he falls or not our plan is to throw as many rocks at him as we can,\u201d Gheen said. \u201cHe knows that not protecting the border and not protecting Americans is his Achilles\u2019 heel, and he needs to spend a lot of money pumping the lie out there. So you have many Wisconsin voters who only hear that lie, that expensively advertised lie, where he\u2019s telling them what they want to hear about himself, while doing something completely different with Obama in D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n In many ways, the Ryan-Nehlen primary is a microcosm of the national Clinton-Trump race where one candidate represents the globalist establishment\u2019s interests and the other candidate represents populist issues that resonate with the beleaguered middle class.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s big money paying for big lies, and unfortunately that works most of the time. But what you\u2019re looking at right now in Paul Ryan\u2019s district \u2013 it\u2019s that big money with big lies that\u2019s killing America,\u201d Gheen said. \u201cThis race is the quintessential example of the root of what\u2019s wrong with America. It\u2019s the root of all American evil, with the money and the lies and the money backing the lies aimed at Republican voters.\u201d<\/p>\n Nehlen said in a July 30 interview with Fox Business Network\u2019s Lou Dobbs that he believes Ryan, if re-elected, would serve as a thorn in the side of a President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cWith one vote, we can take back our nation from Paul Ryan\u2019s special interests,\u201d Nehlen said. \u201cWith our one vote, we can stop TPP and stop amnesty. It is vitally important that we do this, because with President Trump in place, Paul Ryan will be nothing but a problem. He will thwart President Trump at every opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n Schlafly endorses Nehlen<\/strong><\/p>\n Nehlen also got good news Wednesday with an enthusiastic endorsement from legendary conservative Phyllis Schlafly, who said, \u201cPaul Ryan is not an America-first guy.\u201d While the momentum seems to be reaching a critical mass, the question is whether it will be too little, too late.<\/p>\n \u201cIt needs to be stronger, because from the numbers I\u2019ve seen it looks like Ryan has more money than Cantor did,\u201d Gheen said.<\/p>\n Nehlen has raised more than twice the amount that Rep. Dave Brat raised \u2013 $200,000 \u2013 to defeat Cantor. But he is still being vastly outspent by Ryan\u2019s machine.<\/p>\n Ryan\u2019s campaign reported<\/a> raising about $5.5 million in the second quarter of the year, leaving him with $9.75 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n Nehlen raised about $489,000 during that same period.<\/p>\n Along with the huge money advantage, Ryan also enjoys the backing of the Wisconsin state GOP establishment and the national GOP.<\/p>\n Nehlen has accused state party leaders of banning his literature from party headquarters, not allowing him to have a tent at party events and other blatant attempts to hide his candidacy from voters.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous, because people are going to these party tents, to these Republican victory offices, and my materials aren\u2019t there,\u201d Nehlen told LifeZette<\/a>. He said the speaker has betrayed his southeastern Wisconsin district on issues like immigration and trade. \u201cThe system is rigged against grassroots interests trying to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ryan has posted a new campaign commercial <\/a>on his Facebook page Tuesday night, \u201cwhich falsely claims that he wants to secure America\u2019s borders and protect us from terrorism while in fact he has opposed border-security measures and advocated amnesty for illegals instead,\u201d Gheen said, all while talking tough against refugees but fully funding their arrival in American cities and towns.<\/p>\n Underneath the Ryan ad are numerous negative comments.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are only committed to maintaining your power! You care nothing about the American people,\u201d commented Lynn Foskey Sharpe.<\/p>\n \u201cYou won\u2019t even stand up to Obama. Don\u2019t feed us that trash,\u201d wrote Jimmy Henderson.<\/p>\n Below is a further sampling of the backlash against Ryan on his own pages and posts:<\/p>\n Read more of the thousands of comments like these melting down Paul Ryan\u2019s two Facebook pages here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nehlen wins endorsement of gun group<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Nehlen picked up the endorsement Wednesday of the National Association for Gun Rights PAC, or NAGRPAC. In an email to supporters titled \u201cHelp us \u2018Cantor\u2019 Paul Ryan!\u201d NAGRPAC Director Dudley Brown had this to say about the race:<\/p>\n \u201cEVERY politician who advocates gun control can and should lose their job. Over the last several weeks, Paul Ryan chose to become the LOUDEST Republican voice for gun control in the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a pro-gun choice in the August 9th primary. Candidate Paul Nehlen has pledged his support for the Second Amendment,\u201d Brown continued. \u201cPaul Nehlen returned his National Association for Gun Rights Candidate Survey 100% pro-gun, promising to fight the gun grabbers and support pro-gun legislation! Please vote for Paul Nehlen in the August 9th Republican Primary.\u201d<\/p>\n Billionaire Koch brothers back Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n Nehlen is also hitting Ryan hard for his support of secretive trade deals that erode U.S. sovereignty and threaten U.S. workers, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<\/p>\n At a secretive retreat of billionaire conservative donors sponsored by Charles and David Koch at the posh Broadmoor Resort in Colorado on Monday, Ryan again pushed for multi-national so-called \u201cfree trade\u201d deals that Donald Trump opposes.<\/p>\n At the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce gathering of some 400 donors who give at least $100,000 a year to Koch-affiliated organizations, Ryan reportedly raised the trade issue while taking yet another veiled swipe at the GOP\u2019s presidential nominee\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to win some of these fights in Washington on behalf of the free-market system. We have our work cut out for us. \u2026 We have a different kind of (presidential) nominee now. It\u2019s unique. \u2026 We\u2019re having a hard time with our party these days.\u201d<\/p>\n He was given a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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