Paul Ryan spent college just like you: Drinking beer, dreaming of taking healthcare from poor people
Best four years of every young man's life: Hanging out with some bros, drinking beers, dreaming about a wonderful future where healthcare is less available to the poor.
Oh, sorry, that's just Paul Ryan and his forever-friend, conservative pundit Rich Lowry:
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Politico reporter Adam Cancryn tweeted the quote from the National Review Institute Ideas Summit, a biennial conference about the future of conservatism, and the clapback was nothing short of immediate.
While it's hard to imagine young Paul Ryan raging in his striped polo and having a stronger political stance than, say, "there should be Chick-fil-A breakfast on campus," his nascent platform apparently extended all the way to "people shouldn't be able to go to the doctor if they're poor."
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Not to mention what a weird insight it is into the sort of things Ryan spent his youth casually chatting about.
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A lot of people pointed out how amazing it is that he's been resilient in sticking to such an insensitive dream for most of his adult life.
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Others pointed out that it's probably not as romantic as Ryan remembers it.
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No matter your political beliefs, there's nothing like a keg-side chat about who deserves Medicaid to make someone say "that dude is really not fun to get a beer with."
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