10-25-2017, 09:53 AM
(10-25-2017, 02:18 AM)Galen Wrote:(10-25-2017, 12:14 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Conservative libertarian Senator Jeff Flake of AZ denounces the Trump style of leadership in no uncertain terms in a Senate speech, and refuses to be complicit in it by running for re-election:
http://www.abc15.com/news/state/sen-jeff...e-election
Flake is about as widely hated among the R's as McConnel and Ryan are these days. He was going to lose the primary. If you had a clue about what is going on among the R's you would realize that the Republican Establishment has been at war with its base for decades. It seems that only the Dims are mourning the the loss of this loser.
Since Flake is one of those solidly conservative members who happens to abhor what Trump is doing, which of those aspects has put him in the GOP dog house? Is GOP = Trump now., or is the party base moving somewhere else?
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