Posted on 12/26/2017 9:50:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is still acting like a thorn in President Trump's side - even on Christmas weekend. Speaking to ABC's "This Week," Flake condemned the president's rallies as bastions of resentment.
"When you look at some of the audiences cheering for Republicans, sometimes, you look out there and you say, 'those are the spasms of a dying party,' " Flake said on ABC's "This Week."
"When you look at the lack of diversity, sometimes, and it depends on where you are, obviously, but by and large, we're appealing to older white men and there are just a limited number of them, and anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy," he continued. (The Hill)
The hostility between Flake and Trump started when we learned of Flake's "secret" book, "Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle," in which he trashed Trump's agenda. The 45th president had a major hand in "compromising" the Republican Party's morals, the politician/author suggested. After the discovery, Trump mocked the senator at a rally in Phoenix.
Since then, Flake has continued to distance himself from the president, most recently refusing to support Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in the special election race to replace Jeff Sessions. Moore denied the sexual assault allegations against him heading into Election Day, but the whole scandal encouraged Democrats to head to the polls in droves and elect Doug Jones, the first Democrat to a Senate seat in Alabama for 25 years. Many top Republicans urged Moore to drop out of the race, but Flake was so opposed to Moore's candidacy that he went so far as to donate to Jones's campaign.
Even with Moore's defeat, he will continue to be a "stain" on the GOP, Flake said Sunday.
He was happy to show his followers that he received a "Decency Wins" mug from a fan this weekend for his rebellion against the president. He tweeted those same two words on December 12, the day Moore lost.
This mug was left at my door today. Thank you. What a thoughtful Christmas gift. #DecencyWins pic.twitter.com/htj7PrLnbj— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) December 24, 2017
Yes, the aptly-named Flake.
“How in the hell did that moron Flake ever get elected dog catcher, let alone the GOP Senator from Arizona.”
Answer: Mormons! Next to Utah, AZ has the highest percentage of them in the entire country.
Boy, Jeff, you really have your finger on the pulse of yourself.
Flake is a delusional full blown idiot....
The Flake is nothing more than a Davos globalist conspiracy puppet...
.....his GOP-establishment ilk are the contemporary version of the ‘loyalists’ that refused to align themselves with the Constitution of the republic of the United States and the American Revolution from foreign interventionists.
Why does not this miserable POS go away.
Perhaps this ass can team up with the other ass from Ohio and run on the irrelevant ticket.
California has elected some real ‘flakes’ for a long time now.
It is such a shame that Arizona has two less-than-worthless senators, too
I received an email fron Ben Sasse.....unexpected since he isnt my Senator.....
Ithink Sasse is planning on running too. Both him and Flake are scum
This SOB don't know what anger or resentment is and seems oblivious to the fact it was him the lying disciples of deceit in D.C. who created the anger over this epic widespread government corruption.
Flake is right. There is a lot ofanger and resentment. At Trump rallies....at a-holes like Jeff Flake.
“...anger and resentment...”
Against the swamp maybe? Just sayin...
KYPD
After 8 long years under the corrupt, jack-booted Kenyan Usurpation, you’re damn right we resented it and still angry over it. But better days are here and no Flake is gonna take it away from us....get lost, creep. The RAT party might take ya in a pinch. Whadda POS. Go give the MadMaxiePad a big hug and kiss for us.
No, those are the birth pains of a NEW party.
He is not running in 2018 because voters from Arizona already are.
The vibe I got from that rally was that that I had on October 31, 1998, when the Free Republic March for Justice occurred in Washington DC. A lot of optimism for the future of our country in spite of the evil forces that were in power at the time.
For the record, the Fairfield, CT rally was actually historical in that a major shift was taking place in the Trump campaign that weekend. Paul Manafort was on the way out and Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon were coming in.
The Fairfield rally was the very last place that Donald Trump ever spoke without a teleprompter. From that point on, Kellyanne and Steve put Trump on the way to the presidency and MAGA truly began on that hot, humid weekend (a massive thunderstorm greeted us on the way out - a message from the gods?)
Good old liberal projecting their own feelings on others again.
“How in the hell did that moron Flake ever get elected dog catcher, let alone the GOP Senator from Arizona.”
Didn’t his chip off the old block son burn a bunch dogs?
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