Posted on 08/10/2017 3:56:03 PM PDT by Mariner
Republican senators who have been a thorn in President Trump's side are beginning to see the political consequences of opposing the White House as pro-Trump activists start to mobilize.
Just this week, it was revealed that conservative billionaire and Trump benefactor Robert Mercer would be contributing $300,000 to a super PAC supporting a primary challenger to Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. The Republican lawmaker has sparred with Trump on immigration and is promoting a book that argues the GOP is in denial about the president.
Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller who gave only tepid support to Trumps presidential bid and the subsequent push to repeal and replace ObamaCare also learned this week he would face a primary challenge from a Trump backer who has run unsuccessfully for Senate before.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, too, is feeling the heat from Trump and his base as the president vents about the Kentucky Republicans inability to get health care legislation passed.
Flake, though, has been the most overt about his displeasure with the president -- making the TV rounds to discuss his book ahead of his re-election race next year.
"If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it," Flake writes in "Conscience of a Conservative." "If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?"
The White House has not shied from hitting back.
I think Senator Flake would serve his constituents much better if he was less focused on writing a book and attacking the president than passing legislation, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said last week when asked if the president would back a challenger.
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Drain the sewer of the floaters. Calling it a Swamp is being overly generous.
Ryan has to go and Turtle Face needs to be replaced with someone with nads.
The GOP gutless, self-serving excrement either get on the Trump train or get replaced with patriots willing to MAGA.
No doubt!
The Amnesty Senators MUST be removed from office
Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake in 2018
Graham and Alexander in 2020
Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio in 2022
Failure to do so will cost us our country
I can think of 100 that should be tarred, feathered and hung by their necks from sturdy tree branches until their necks snap.
No one reads them, but they don't depend on real book sales.
Their publisher prints hundreds of thousands of them, and ships them to a warehouse. Then, PACs and political slime balls who want to purchase Congressional influence and favors "buy" tens of thousands of books, in bulk.
It is essentially a bribe, paid for via a "legitimate" vehicle (book sales).
Been going on for decades.
There used to a progressive/left poster here with that 'Conscience of a Conservative' screen name...was that you, Jeff?
Excellent. This is exactly what needs to happen in 2018: lots of Swamp draining via the party primary process...
That is our question to YOU, numbnuts!
There are only eight pubs up for reelection in 2018.
Flake AZ
Wicker, MI
Fischer IA
Heller NV
Corker TN
Cruz TX
Hatch UT
Barrasso MT
Don’t know much about some. Only Heller is in a D leaning state.
Deb Fischer is in Nebraska (NE).
What? I'm in for 10 dozen gross cases of books. Here's my check. Deliver them to the town recycling center.
Barrasso WY
Any resemblance between Jeff Flake and a Conservative is purely co-incendendental.
Wicker MS. He should go too. Where the heck is he? Maybe hiding in a bunker somewhere with my disappointment Tim Scott.
How can we arrange by next year to have the repeal of the 27th Amendment on the ballot? I think we could do it if we could get it on. That would stir up D.C. And drain the swamp.
17th Amendment, sorry.
You’re all correct. I read the list then typed it. Should have double checked.
OK folks, I keep posting these links. Use them in your respective races in the upcoming years. But for vette6387, your perspective is fuel for those outside of your beleaguered state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2020
“Well, you have the Mormon Troika up for re-election next year.”
Why would anyone vote in a cultist? They’ve already proven they lack discernment.
I believe that is the method that Hillary uses to funnel and/or launders money, i.e., writes her books and then cooks the books.
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