Posted on 08/19/2017 7:28:25 PM PDT by Mafe
President Donald Trump’s tweet yesterday morning endorsing a primary challenger to Arizona senator Jeff Flake was hardly a surprise. Trump likes to call himself a counter-puncher, so from his frame of reference, Flake had been asking for it by not only consistently criticizing the president but also spending the summer promoting a book attacking Trump and the Republicans who haven’t stood up to him. But this is a move Trump and his party may come to regret.
Trump wasn’t the only one annoyed by Flake’s Conscience of a Conservative and the accompanying tour. The senator’s attempt to cast himself as the successor to Barry Goldwater, whose 1960 book by the same name was a seminal moment in the rise of the modern conservative movement, was an act of colossal pretension. His interviews on shows such as Morning Joe amounted to nothing more than obnoxious virtue-signaling even from the point of view of Flake’s fellow Trump critics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“attempt to cast himself as the successor to Barry Goldwater,”
Laughable.
Wishful thinking by the main never Trump site.
“Conservatives” In Name Only
With Republicans like Flake, who needs Democrats?
A state capable of giving us Traitor McCain cannot be counted on to give us a conservative senator.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. There must be dozens of people who live in Arizona. Is Jeff Flake REALLY the only person who can represent those who self-identify as Republicans?
National Review is worried their RINO #NeverTrumper buddy may be in trouble.
Never forget National Review’s Publication of the Never Trump issue.
They are no longer the great conservative publication of William F. Buckley, but a bunch sell out rat scum Globalists filth.
Will we have to suffer through another year of ads featuring Flake going for his morning run? This pretentious ass is so in love with himself that when he calls Trump “self-aggrandizing,” you just have to laugh out loud.
Anyone is better than a back-stabbing RINO.
Mark Kirk, IL’s GOP Senator not only trashed Trump, he swiftly unendorsed him.
Hillary not only carried IL anyway, Kirk lost his seat.
GOP voters don’t like Republicans who attack their President.
Those who do pay the price.
Hit piece might be a way to describe this article which has been posted on FR before.
Designed to force on everyone the notion that Trump Hater Senator Flake is the “electable one” for Senate in Arizona next year.
The RINOs putting up their standard last-line-of-defense — the bugaboo that anyone other than THEIR preferred candidate (i.e., RINO) will lose to a ‘RAT. It’s a lie!
How would we know the difference?
If we have a R Senator attacks Trump and votes against him and he would be replaced by D who is exactly the same, what’s the diff?
Voters are not stupid.
So HOW/WHY is Flake better than a democrat?
But this is Arizona we are talking about. Why McCain is still around I just can’t understand so I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep Flake.
Flake IS a Democrat.
He just wears an R jersey to fool people.
If he makes it through the primary, vote for the real Democrat.
I can't figure out how he ended up being elected in the first place. NO ONE had ever heard of him, he's from the TINY town of Snowflake up in the White Mountains, never did a damn thing of note.
He's just a good looking glib jerk. And we know now that he's an illegal alien friendly RINO SOB who can be bought.
Flake is an opportunist who has never had an original thought in his life
How’s the cruise/fundraiser going this year? Sold out yet?
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