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Corker praises the Democrat who wants to replace him
NBC "News" ^ | April 18, 2018 | Vaughn Hillyard

Posted on 04/19/2018 9:36:26 AM PDT by mooncoin

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., isn't running for re-election but he had many words of praise Wednesday for the Democratic candidate who is trying to replace him.

Phil Bredesen, the former Democratic governor, is running in a tight race against Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn for the open Tennessee senate seat.

Corker has donated money to Blackburn but said he won't campaign against Bredesen.

"I worked very closely with him for years, and he was a very good mayor, very good governor, very good businessperson and look, I'm not going to campaign against someone who, you know, I've been a friend with and worked with," Corker told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bredesen; corker; senate; tennessee; uniparty
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To: Maine Mariner

“I cannot think of two many times when a Democrat supports a Republican in the same way as described in the article.”

Only two times I can remember were Zell Miller in 2004 for GWB and Joe Lieberman for McCain in 2008. In those instances you had Democrats endorsing “Republicans” :-).


21 posted on 04/19/2018 10:06:44 AM PDT by edh
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To: mooncoin

“Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., isn’t running for re-election but he had many words of praise Wednesday for the Democratic candidate who is trying to replace him.”

To survive, the republican party must purge itself of trash like the Corksucker.


22 posted on 04/19/2018 10:08:46 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jyo19

I think Corker needs to be rightfully accused of not backing Blackburn because she is a woman.

Lets get vocal Tennessee.


23 posted on 04/19/2018 10:10:15 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your Hair.)
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To: mooncoin; AdvisorB; Campion; Grammy; Ingtar; Jane Long; jazusamo; Kaslin; upcountry miss; ...
Marsha

Blackburn

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Senate

Ping

If you'd like to be on or off the Marsha Blackburn ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

24 posted on 04/19/2018 10:11:22 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: Fantasywriter

And never forget what McShithead did to Billy Cunningham when Billy said Barack HUSSEIN Obama.


25 posted on 04/19/2018 10:15:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: mooncoin

So political ideology is not important to this man?

Says Blackburn likely 6 points behind.
http://www.rollcall.com/video/watch_corker_says_blackburn_likely_six_points_behind_democrat_in_tennessee_senate_race


26 posted on 04/19/2018 10:20:29 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Bonemaker

McCain also indefinitely suspended a campaign aide, Soren Dayton, for drawing too much attention to Obama’s relationship with g@d d@mn America Jeremiah Wright. As soon as McCain identified anyone working on his campaign who actually wanted to win, under the bus they went.


27 posted on 04/19/2018 10:24:05 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: edh

Yes, that is correct. And of course two should really be too. I also remember that in 1972 some Chicago aldermen supported Richard Nixon over George McGovern.


28 posted on 04/19/2018 10:27:42 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: mooncoin

Levin should get this he might have her on his show.


29 posted on 04/19/2018 10:31:00 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: mooncoin

If the Bush League Republicans can’t get an amnesty candidate they will always help the Democrat win.
They have done so repeatedly.


30 posted on 04/19/2018 10:33:59 AM 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: apillar

Corker will probably end up, after the election, as a revolving door appointee.


31 posted on 04/19/2018 10:40:14 AM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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To: Maine Mariner

I didn’t notice the “too/two” :-) ...

I could only think of those two DINOs endorsing two RINOs :-), but I seem to recall many RINOs falling over backwards to say great things about various democrats when it’d be best to keep their mouth shut (McCain in 2008, Christie in 2012, basically any elite in 2016, the idiots in congress today clearly trying to throw control to the Dems ... ).


32 posted on 04/19/2018 10:49:26 AM PDT by edh
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To: mooncoin
Corker is a spineless, soul-less man capon.
33 posted on 04/19/2018 11:09:36 AM PDT by Gritty (Leftists make no bones about what they think of you. They hate you. Act accordingly.-Kurt Schlichter)
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To: mooncoin

Wake up Tenn..if Corker, a so called Republican , praises the other parties choice to replace him...be glad he is going...and lets get a decent REPUBLICAN in his spot...

He has always been nothing but a Rich cry baby...glad to see him go..


34 posted on 04/19/2018 11:37:10 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: mooncoin

.@MarshaBlackburn is a wonderful woman who has always been there when we have needed her. Great on the Military, Border Security and Crime. Loves and works hard for the people of Tennessee. She has my full endorsement and I will be there to campaign with her!

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987038167730552832


35 posted on 04/19/2018 12:13:59 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

corked is an exceptional idiot OF the ultimate level. Good riddancs.


36 posted on 04/19/2018 1:10:03 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mooncoin

Tax raising governor. Found this on a search http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/09/phil-bredesen-hit-over-record-of-covering-up-sexual-assault-allegations-one-day-after-announcing-senate-campaign/


37 posted on 04/20/2018 5:55:30 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: upchuck

http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/09/phil-bredesen-hit-over-record-of-covering-up-sexual-assault-allegations-one-day-after-announcing-senate-campaign/

Pass it around.

PS President Trump is backing Marsha.


38 posted on 04/20/2018 5:58:06 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: mooncoin

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/im-cautious-phil-bredesens-prospects-tennessee


39 posted on 04/27/2018 3:47:51 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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