Posted on 07/31/2017 5:09:05 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Who could blame the people who felt abandoned and ignored by the major parties for reaching in despair for a candidate who offered oversimplified answers to infinitely complex questions and managed to entertain them in the process? With hindsight, it is clear that we all but ensured the rise of Donald Trump.
I will let the liberals answer for their own sins in this regard. (There are many.) But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama’s failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington even as we worked to assist with that failure. It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued. To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Under our Constitution, there simply are not that many people who are in a position to do something about an executive branch in chaos. As the first branch of government (Article I), the Congress was designed expressly to assert itself at just such moments. It is what we talk about when we talk about “checks and balances.” Too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, “Someone should do something!” without seeming to realize that that someone is us. And so, that unnerving silence in the face of an erratic executive branch is an abdication, and those in positions of leadership bear particular responsibility.
That sounds foreboding. What he says they should do at the end is that they should "stand up" when the President "plays too much" to the base, fight Trump's fair trade proposals, and keep the filibuster. However, his post sounds more foreboding than that. It sounds like he wants to do more...
Meanwhile, the strange specter of an American president’s seeming affection for strongmen and authoritarians created such a cognitive dissonance among my generation of conservatives—who had come of age under existential threat from the Soviet Union—that it was almost impossible to believe. Even as our own government was documenting a concerted attack against our democratic processes by an enemy foreign power, our own White House was rejecting the authority of its own intelligence agencies, disclaiming their findings as a Democratic ruse and a hoax. Conduct that would have had conservatives up in arms had it been exhibited by our political opponents now had us dumbstruck.
Then he has the audacity to say Trump has a penchant for dictators when it was Obama who appeased Putin many times (working on a big blog post on that). This is literally straight from a Hillary Clinton campaign press release that the media used as talking points and wrote articles on. It was Obama that met Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro with a big grin on his face.
Of course he brings up the election hacking. Flake never saw the DNC server (the FBI didn't either), and he doesn't question anything even though there is room to question.
Could you imagine the Democrats ever treating one of their own like this? It's time to get Flake out! Vote Kelli Ward if you live in Arizona and support her!
McShameys butt buddy
He is an open borders guy, probably a part of a drug cartel. He has been so vicious against Trump it’s hard to think anything else
Jeff Flake is now one of the top national trends on Twitter with journalists and liberals (but I repeat myself) praising him up.
Flake you mother flaker.
Flake MUST be removed from office along with every GOP Senator that voted for Rubio’s amnesty.
Graham has told us if we don’t remove them, they WILL give away the country.
Flake, Corker, Hatch and Heller in 2018
Graham and Alexander in 2020
Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio in 2022
This guy is an IDIOT.
Az: What are we gonna do about you?
Flake,,,name theory,
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573559/posts
Top Republican senator says his party is in ‘denial’ about Trump
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3573271/posts
Flake: Republicans who don’t call Trump out are complicit (Barf)
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Like the one who spoke with such eloquence about Freedom to the people of Poland.
Dump Flake!
A party that can’t win an national election gets a candidate who can, and they do this crap. Screw these people. Screw them.
Count me in, I’ll have no problem working for his primary opponent (other than knocking on doors and cold calling, I don’t like that stuff.) But I’m sure there’s something else I could help with.
I didn’t get here in time to vote for McCain’s opponent, but I’ll be happy to help oust Flake.
Problems are “infinitely complex”? I call psycho babble. This seems to be a great example of the effort to clear lying liberal garbage out of the party.
Flame calls himself a conservative?! You’re done at the next election Jeff boy.
Infinitely complex questions?! Give me a break.
Hey Flake, had you at least tried to give Trump a chance after the election, the chaos wouldn’t be so bad.
“... a candidate who offered oversimplified answers to infinitely complex questions and managed to entertain them in the process”
I am so tired of being called stupid by these corrupt, arrogant weasels. Yeah, I was too stupid to understand the brilliance of Obamacare and the debasement of America’s standing in the world. Only Trump could appeal to my inbred, backward redneck brain.
Where do I send money to primary this a-hole?
What do you mean we Kimosabe?
What the Hell did you think the Tea Party rallies and 2010 capture of the House and hundreds of state seats were all about?
You and most of your pathetic cohorts didn't advance a conservative agenda. You didn't even advance a moderate one, because Obama basically said you were persona non grata.
No, you were all taken in by the crease of his pants and so-called star power, that you didn't do a DAMN thing to stop his agenda.
That's why we supported Trump. Because he represented our frustrations at the GOPs complete lack of balls to fight the media and the Democrats.
So keep telling yourself that Trump is the problem. If I lived in AZ, I would both donate and vote for the 3rd party candidate in the general.
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