Posted on 01/14/2016 5:00:24 PM PST by cotton1706
BALTIMORE - South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune told reporters Thursday that he is “personally very offended about being called the establishment†by some GOP presidential candidates.
"I think in a presidential campaign the rhetoric is kind of hot. I think it's just inevitable. We can't control what candidates are going to say or are going to do," said Thune, who is the Senate Conference Chairman, during the GOP retreat. "We can only control what we are going to do here and as individual members of Congress."
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Um, did you vote for Corker? Support Gang of Eight? Vote for TPP? As Jeff Foxworthy says, “You might be establishment . . .”
John got his ego hurt.
If the shoe fits.
This is a tell. Being in club evidently doesn’t provide cover anymore.
Yeah? Well, I’m personally offended by the number of times you’ve voted to cram corrupt garbage legislation down the throats of the American people against their will. These guys make me sick. Especially this slick POS.
Thune is entirely establishment: Who has SD produced that was much good? Maybe Karl Mundt???
Then maybe you can put forth a bill to not pay Iran and not release sanctions. Otherwise, get back in the sty with your establishment siblings.
They’re ALL Establishment dogs.
We The People are IRRELEVANT unless we seig-heil the Ruling Class and their rule over us.
When, if ever - this people rise to their duty and abolish the forms to which they have grown accustomed, history teaches that it is never kind to those that were part of the tyranny that oppressed them.
..We can only control what we are going to do here and as individual members of Congress.”
Individual members can control themselves to do what they promised those who elected them that they would do.
And when those promises are forgotten in backroom deals and votes, its on establishment types like you, Senator Thune.
You brought it in yourself.
The shoe fits when a politician is pullin out his butt
Karl Mundt! Wow! Haven’t heard that name in a while!!
Liberals do like to get “offended”, do they not.
48 percent at Conservative Review. 60 percent at Heritage Action (four points below the GOP average of 64 percent). Thune did it to himself.
Sorry if you’re offended by the truth there bub, but you’ve earned your establishmnet stripes.
Tough crap.
Change your behavior.
Bingo!
Wolf in sheep clothing.
“GOP Sen. Thune: ‘I’m Personally Very Offended About Being Called The Establishment’”
There is a way to not be called “establishment”. Work for the people, not the party.
Handle it twit!
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