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.
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I have absolutely NO regard for the National Review and consider their “opinions” just another form of media bashing President Trump.
How to Give Jeff Flake’s Senate Seat to a Democrat
Simple — renominate Flake.
Absolutely correct.
Jeff Flake's greatest achievement in the US Senate has been to be a simpering toady for the inside-the-Beltway, self-aggrandizing uniParty.
National NeverTrump Review can GFY.
I don’t know which is worse, National Review or the Weekly Standard. Both belong to the trash heap of history. Sayonara Bill Buckley.
On the whole, no, but John McCain keeps getting elected.
If the GOP loses a left winger’s seat who hates them as much as Pelosi does, that is no loss. It’s just one less enemy in the ranks.
NR is showing it’s true neocon, globalist, amnesty loving, open borders colors here.
Disgraceful that these traitors are still in business.
If Mr. Flake and the other Republicans in Congress get their noses to the grindstone and pass President Trump’s legislative agenda, it really won’t matter who runs in the primary- they will be swept into power.
On the other hand, if they don’t have a resume of accomplishments to point to next fall, they will be in a sorry situation and will more likely than not be defeated.
Mr. Flake needs to quit blaming the President, and instead get to work if he wants to stay around.
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