What astounded me- and probably shouldn't have- was Paul Ryan's pretty bald statement: I suppose the intended message was something along the lines of, "regardless of nominee, we're still planning on letting the people decide on the blah blah blah blargh puke." As if the people didn't already decide as of last election. Nevertheless, really unfortunate phrasing. Underscores everything that's wrong with the Republican ethos right now. "We don't care who the nominee is, and we're not even prepared to consider qualification or lack thereof. We object on the grounds of who's making the nomination." In my POV, this is an unbelievably, unforgivably close-minded stance, even in light of what we've seen from the Right since Obama took the presidency the first time. It blows my mind that all of this has been kind of taken as matter of course.This has never been about who the nominee is, it is about a basic principle.