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Sen. Flake on 'View': ‘You Can’t Win’ As a Republican by ‘Telling the Truth’
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Keeping up their trend of inviting never-Trump Republican politicians on the show, the liberal hosts at ABC’s The View welcomed Arizona Senator Jeff Flake
...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years...
 with open arms, on Monday’s show. After he used the Senate floor two weeks ago to lambast President Trump while announcing his retirement, the Arizona senator was ready to continue his media friendly tour, and The View was only happy to give it to him.

Host Meghan McCain introduced Flake as a "family friend" saying she was "heartbroken" to see him go, since Congress needs "more men in office like [him] right now." After loud cheers and applause from the audience, (also the reaction when Senator John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
was on the show last week, the complete opposite treatment of what any other Republican guest gets on the show,) an impressed Flake remarked:

"If we had an audience like this in the Senate gallery I would never leave!" he joked.

McCain continued her gushy remarks about Flake, noting he had never been a Trump supporter, and asking him why he was retiring now.

The Republican senator explained that he could not win re-election with Trump in office, because he didn’t agree with his positions. Flake dismissed his dismally low approval rating as result of the Trump phenomena:

Let me just say, the honor of my lifetime is to be in the Senate especially as junior senator to Senator McCain. It’s been wonderful. But I felt that I could not run the kind of race that I would need to run to be competitive. I could not speak out as I am now and as I have been over the past several months. There is no way you can be competitive in a Republican primary particularly in a state like Arizona right now if you don't agree with the president's positions or if you don’t condone his behavior.

Posted by: Fred 2017-11-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=501115