Sen Jeff Flake gives scathing speech to announce he will not run again

[ryoder 1,590]

https://www.facebook.com/newsandguts/videos/303546053383703/

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[rushmc 23]

Because he knows he can't win

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[gowlerk 2,206]

rushmc

Because he knows he can't win

He might have trouble winning in the primary. Who ever does win the R primary may very well have a hard time in the real election at this point.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[yoink 321]

rushmc

Because he knows he can't win

Is he saying nasty things because he knows he can't win (making stuff up out of spite, for example), or is he saying nasty things now because he knows he can't win? (having held the opinions but stayed quiet...)

There's a difference.

Honestly, if the Republican senators actually grew a collective spine and said stuff like this on the record when they weren't already on the way out it would carry much more weight. It's far too easy to dismiss it as being a sore loser if you only say something when there's no risk to saying it. Fucking cowards.

Rush's reply is going to be absolutely typical of the dismissal of their conservative base.

[billvon 2,998]

>Is he saying nasty things because he knows he can't win (making stuff up out of spite, for
>example), or is he saying nasty things now because he knows he can't win? (having held the
> opinions but stayed quiet...)

He's abandoned political correctness because he doesn't need to care about that crap any more. And he's saying what a lot of Republicans want to say - but are afraid to.

[yoink 321]

billvon

>Is he saying nasty things because he knows he can't win (making stuff up out of spite, for
>example), or is he saying nasty things now because he knows he can't win? (having held the
> opinions but stayed quiet...)

He's abandoned political correctness because he doesn't need to care about that crap any more.

But doing it when nothing is at risk it makes it worth nothing. It will carry absolutely no weight with anyone expect those who are already predisposed to believe it anyway.

Anyone can not give a shit when there's nothing at risk, but it weakens the message you're giving.

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And he's saying what a lot of Republicans want to say - but are afraid to.

Maybe - but you have no proof of that because they're all spineless cock-wombles.

[rushmc 23]

Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never trumpers from the start.

This is the result of their actions.

Go Trump!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Phil1111 1,149]

rushmc

Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never trumpers from the start.

This is the result of their actions.

Go Trump!

Its called splitting the vote. Bannon,trump will have a set of candidates and the republicans will have another set. Which will split the republican vote and the dems will win.

or

If the republicans don't give the trump-kindergarten clan the boot. The party will loose on its record.

[rushmc 23]

Phil1111

***Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never trumpers from the start.

This is the result of their actions.

Go Trump!

Its called splitting the vote. Bannon,trump will have a set of candidates and the republicans will have another set. Which will split the republican vote and the dems will win.

or

If the republicans don't give the trump-kindergarten clan the boot. The party will loose on its record.

Your wet dream.....

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[DJL 235]

ryoder

https://www.facebook.com/newsandguts/videos/303546053383703/

To summarize it. The nuts are running the nuthouse and Conservative Republicans can't win unless they pander to the Far Right.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[billvon 2,998]

>Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never
>trumpers from the start.

And Corker was a Trump supporter.

Looks like a lot of Republicans are suffering #tregret. Most are just too scared to voice their opinion.

[rushmc 23]

billvon

>Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never
>trumpers from the start.

And Corker was a Trump supporter.

Looks like a lot of Republicans are suffering #tregret. Most are just too scared to voice their opinion.

You are voicing exactly what your media tells you.

Carry on.........

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kallend 2,027]

Did you write this? It looks like your style.

www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-flake-corker-trump-bullying-huppke-20171025-story.html

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[billvon 2,998]

>You are voicing exactly what your media tells you.

RushMC, once again tripped up by facts, tries valiantly to change the subject.

Meanwhile, a list of other Republican senators who have spoken out against Trump:

Susan Collins
Shelley Moore Capito
Dean Heller
John McCain
Lindsey Graham
Marco Rubio
Rand Paul
Mike Lee
Ben Sasse

#tregret by the more honest members of the Senate.

[kallend 2,027]

rushmc

***>Flake is one of 4 Republican establishment politicians who have been never
>trumpers from the start.

And Corker was a Trump supporter.

Looks like a lot of Republicans are suffering #tregret. Most are just too scared to voice their opinion.

You are voicing exactly what your media tells you.

Carry on.........

Flake has proved his conservative bona fides over and over again. He led the charge to kill earmarks, voted against Medicare Part D despite arm-twisting from George W. Bush himself, and spoke out against deficit spending by his own party. House GOP leaders even removed Flake from his slot on the House Judiciary Committee in 2007 as retaliation for his criticism.

This part of his background makes it hard for anyone to credibly argue that Flake's speaking out against Trump is anything but principled.

But those with no credibility left will certainly attack him.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[jakee 1,500]

billvon

Meanwhile, a list of other Republican senators who have spoken out against Trump:

Susan Collins
Shelley Moore Capito
Dean Heller
John McCain
Lindsey Graham
Marco Rubio
Rand Paul
Mike Lee
Ben Sasse

Exactly. Each of them one of the 4 anti-Trumpers.

It's like you're making his point for him

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[GeorgiaDon 362]

kallend

Did you write this? It looks like your style.

www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-flake-corker-trump-bullying-huppke-20171025-story.html

I'm pretty sure Marc doesn't do ironic, or sarcastic, at least not so skillfully.

Regurgitating Breitbart/Infowars fake news with a side serving of gratuitous insults, on the other hand...

Don

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