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GOP senator joins support for Flake in contentious Arizona primary [Joni Ernst! Aargh!]
The Hill ^ | 8/30/17 | Josh Delk

Posted on 09/03/2017 2:01:02 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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To: SoFloFreeper

Elected in 2014.

Must be record time to convert what seemed like a real person into a DC swamp creature.


21 posted on 09/03/2017 2:41:53 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: JayGalt

Congresswoman Mia Love (Utah) was another disappointment.
First Haitian, first black female republican in Congress.
She very quickly became part of John Boehner’s RINO voting block. I suppose many of the new Congress will simply gravitate to the side with more money and more political influence. Understandable, but still disappointing.


22 posted on 09/03/2017 2:45:10 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SoFloFreeper

Say it ain’t so Joni.


23 posted on 09/03/2017 2:51:24 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Of course they will. Swamp rats.


24 posted on 09/03/2017 2:52:53 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Joni is now a confirmed RINO!


25 posted on 09/03/2017 2:56:12 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Very frustrating to see fearless first time candidates turn into crony politicians. And many in a literally blink of an eye like Ernst.


26 posted on 09/03/2017 3:00:16 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: lee martell

I don’t give to the RNC anymore, I don’t want my money to be mixed with the RINOs money where they can decide what to do with my money. I like to give to Concerned Women for America and the Tea Party Patriots. There have to be large money sources that can compete with the big donors who give to the RNC. Main Street has to get its act together and realize that we cannot attach ourselves to our mortal enemies.


27 posted on 09/03/2017 3:08:40 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: lee martell

Shows how powerful the lure and threats from the swamp are. I also donated to Mia Love and regret that I was taken in.


28 posted on 09/03/2017 3:11:05 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Shouldn’t that be “Tea Party darling Joni Ernst”?


29 posted on 09/03/2017 3:13:34 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What is wrong with Joni Ernst? This isn’t the same person voters in Iowa supported. Sen. Flake is a mess, and this will cause Ernst’s base to lose interest and fail to support her.


30 posted on 09/03/2017 3:17:08 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: SoFloFreeper


Jonie the bony,
phony baloney
in the swamp with the snake,
named Senator Flake
The smell of the pork
made her side with that dork.
So, people of Iowa
Reject this swamp rino-ma.

(You can see more evidence of her intimacy with pork here.)

31 posted on 09/03/2017 3:19:41 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: apocalypto

It’s what happens to all of them (nearly all)...they get wrapped up in campaigning, someone offers them a lot of money and they are tickled to take it thinking they are really well liked and supported. Then the get to DC and the bill comes due...they are told how to vote and who to support. Or the money stops going to them and starts going to an opponent, and their luxurious life of power and influence in the world’s most exclusive club comes to an end.

That’s what happens.


32 posted on 09/03/2017 3:27:34 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Another RINO?


33 posted on 09/03/2017 3:43:21 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: SoFloFreeper

Swamp things stick together. Sounds like she’s drunk the kool-aid and joined the corruption. Time to find someone to primary her next time around.


34 posted on 09/03/2017 3:52:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Bullish
If the challenger is pro-Trump, then goodbye Flake and good riddance. People are wising up, even in AZ.

If there are three challengers, and indications are that there could be at least that many, then it's a Flake reelection.

35 posted on 09/03/2017 3:55:31 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Publius

“would mean a loss of influence within the Republican Senate caucus,”

Influence...that’s what Chuckie has. The REPUBs only influence under McConnell is to get credit for the article in the bill proposing that WikiLeaks is an enemy of the US State.


36 posted on 09/03/2017 3:58:41 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Publius

The Senate Majority Leader supports Flake, therefore his troops in the Senate are expected to fall into line. Failure to do so would mean a loss of influence within the Republican Senate caucus, influence that can make or break a senator. Ernst is doing what her position requires her to do, nothing more.


Sore loser and now Senate committee Chairwoman Murkowski ran against the Republican nominee in Alaska. I see how much influence she has lost in the Republican Senate caucus. Apparently, some animals are more equal than others.


37 posted on 09/03/2017 4:00:46 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Paine in the Neck

Cornholio is up in 2020. He needs to go. I think he is every bit as slimy as McConnell.


38 posted on 09/03/2017 4:02:54 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: DoodleDawg
If there are three challengers, and indications are that there could be at least that many, then it's a Flake reelection.

Well, I guess that ratfink McConnell will make that happen, huh? McConnell doesn't want to risk losing one of his GOPe globalist turds.

39 posted on 09/03/2017 4:05:01 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: SoFloFreeper

No, she’s likely blackmailed and bought off by big shots like all the Senate.


40 posted on 09/03/2017 4:09:08 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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