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 Trump’s 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 Republican’s 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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For Alabama Judge Roy Moore the 10 Commandment’s judge who LIBTARDS HATE with a passion will support the Constitution. I have no idea who Strange is, Mo Brooks is polling last should stay in his House seat, he should drop out. Strange is an Interim appointee. Have no earthly idea how strong a Conservative he is, but Judge Moore is very conservative. Pro-Life, Pro-gun, Pro-GOD.
Strange seems to be from this article a Establishment R. https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/theres-a-lot-of-strange-baggage-in-the-alabama-senate-race
We have way to many of those as it is.
How about adding in Alabama interim Sen. Strange, and put in Roy Moore, who is very conservative, while Strange is an Establishment shill. Mo Brooks is polling last, and should stay in the house. That would give us 5. I want corker gone, with all his scandals the only reason he keeps getting re-elected is they run idiots like Harold Ford JR against him, so we are forced to vote for the lesser of 2 evils. Same with Lamar.
When faced with a legally binding and Constitutional order to remove the 10 commandments, he refused.
While obviously a good man, he’s not fit for federal office.
“Why would anyone vote in a cultist?”
Because the voters belong to the same cult. Arizona, it second only to Utah in the percentage of Mormons who live there. Ditto for Nevada and Idaho. Las Vegas was originally a Mormon Settlement. The “story” on Las Vegas is “it’s owned by the Jews and run by the Mormons!” My wife grew up there and she says that that comment is spot on.
Thinking back, I guess I did vote for a cultist — Romney.
Re Mormon influence, my uncle lived in Utah for a long time, and his business couldn’t take off because he wasn’t a Mormon. They were ruthless, and hardly “Christian” in their dealings with people.
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