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Will Senate lose its last remaining pragmatists? (they are both weeping and frightened!)
Yahoo.com ^ | 10/9/17 | Francine Kiefer

Posted on 10/09/2017 5:19:02 PM PDT by cotton1706

Collins, Corker, and McCain are three Republican pragmatists who regularly work across the aisle. Their exits – along with the potential loss of several endangered Democrats up for reelection in red states – would all but complete the hollowing out of the Senate’s political center. It’s a trend that’s been going on for more than a decade on both sides, says Jennifer Duffy of the independent Cook Political Report: “There’s virtually no middle left in the Senate.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; elections; gope; gopprimary; rinos
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1 posted on 10/09/2017 5:19:02 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Some call the “pragmatists.” I have another and much less complimentary name for them.


2 posted on 10/09/2017 5:21:01 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: cotton1706

Pragmatist.... Means liberal monkey vomit.


3 posted on 10/09/2017 5:21:11 PM PDT by Lord Casselreagh
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To: cotton1706

Any deal in which a Bolshekrat is involved is a loss.


4 posted on 10/09/2017 5:21:39 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: cotton1706

What are the names of the three Democrat pragmatists who regularly reach across the aisle?


5 posted on 10/09/2017 5:22:59 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: cotton1706

Pragmatist: A Republican office holder who is a reliable vote in the Democratic column.


6 posted on 10/09/2017 5:24:45 PM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: cotton1706

Addition by subtraction.


7 posted on 10/09/2017 5:25:49 PM PDT by AU72
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To: cotton1706

McCain is a prima Donna who’s been there way too long. His ego is enormous and he needs to go


8 posted on 10/09/2017 5:27:53 PM PDT by irish guard
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To: cotton1706

“Pragmatists,” my behind. There are much better words to describe Collins, Corker and McCain. Weasels, Quislings and Duplicitous Bastards come to mind, and I’m being kind.


9 posted on 10/09/2017 5:28:17 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: All
More good news!

Go Trump, Go!

10 posted on 10/09/2017 5:30:41 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: cotton1706

McCain is not a centrist yahoo...he’s a hardcore leftist you idiots.


11 posted on 10/09/2017 5:31:05 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: cotton1706

They aren’t pragmatist they are registered RINOS. They have pedigree papers a mile long.


12 posted on 10/09/2017 5:31:20 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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Get that bitch Lisa Murkowski out of there!

She is in a pretty solid RED State & still screws with the GOP!

She was supposed to be a goner the last time but since Palin endorsed that other guy Liberals all jumped in to support Lisa Murkowski's write in vote along with IDIOT Republicans & she WON!!!

13 posted on 10/09/2017 5:36:15 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: cotton1706

Funny. There are no such thing as ‘pragmatists’ when Democrats are in control.


14 posted on 10/09/2017 5:37:10 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: cotton1706

Francine Kiefer writes for the Christian Science Monitor which is a left-wing rag with expertise in neither Christianity nor Science.


15 posted on 10/09/2017 5:39:03 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: Bernard Marx

Lol! You said it!


16 posted on 10/09/2017 5:41:13 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: cotton1706

Complete BS.

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Gardner, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse, Ernst, Young, Boozman and Shelby are all undocumented Democrats in R jerseys.

The first ten voted to change our laws to benefit fraudulently documented foreigners breaking current laws.


17 posted on 10/09/2017 5:41:51 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cotton1706
who regularly work across the aisle.

I'm reminded of an expression about prostitutes "working both sides of the street."

I can't think why.

18 posted on 10/09/2017 5:44:21 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: cotton1706

There never was a middle.

Only a center left.


19 posted on 10/09/2017 6:02:05 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: cotton1706

The hallowed “center” is right in the middle of the Left.


20 posted on 10/09/2017 6:05:51 PM PDT by arthurus
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