Posted on 09/26/2017 8:46:06 PM PDT by EliRoom8
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) announced Tuesday that he will not run for another term in 2018, setting up an open contest for his seat in next year’s midterms.
The announcement is big news. Corker chairs the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is known as an independent, pragmatic, and policy-minded voice in the Senate GOP. So his exit will have ramifications in the chamber — for one, he won’t have to worry about reelection as he casts his votes over the next 15 months.
His decision is also the retirement of a leading Republican who’s criticized President Donald Trump — Corker said in August that Trump hadn’t demonstrated “the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful.” (Trump responded with a sharp tweet declaring that Tennessee was “not happy” with Corker.)
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Corker is simply the FIRST DOMINOE of many RINO & red state ‘RATS to fall. 2018 will be a bloodbath for them.
Flake is another one who will go down to defeat. Hopefully McCain will be gone from the Senate within a year.
Translation: Corker will vote against the Trump agenda over the next 15 months. Probably will get a big payday when he leaves.
Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake all vote for Rubio’s amnesty and are up in 2018.
Corker has taken himself out.
Hatch, Heller and Flake must be removed from office.
Amnesty Senators MUST GO!
Graham and Alexander in 2020
Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio in 2022
McCain will be dead.
Rat Claire McCaskill, MO.
That will be great.
” known as an independent, pragmatic, and policy-minded voice in the Senate GOP.”
Corksucker is known as a slimy, traitorous tool in my household.
Cornyn needs to be booted in 2020 also.
Then, Trump followed (or should have followed) that tweet with this tweet...
Corker!!!
Every RINO MUST GO!!!
Let the purge begin——they’ve perverted the conservative movement for FAR TO LONG!!
They go or I go....I’ve had enough of them!
Real CONSERVATIVES RULE!!!
Along with Cory Gardner in Colorado in 2020.
Hatch??? I only wish.
I worry about Manning being a squish.
No, no, no, no, no... he’s handicapped by his kindness and popularity.
I think Manning would be easily manipulated by libs
Where are you going?
Boy that Flake has dumped his pants tonight.
Great summary.
People in TN would vote for him in a heartbeat.
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