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Sen. Flake on 'View': ‘You Can’t Win’ As a Republican by ‘Telling the Truth’
2017-11-07
[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

#10  3dc beat me to it.
Posted by: charger   2017-11-07 18:41  

#9  I once believed that they went left when they got to Washington, now I believe that they are like the 'token conservatives' working for news media, that they are lefties pretending to be conservative long enough to get the job.That way if the Dems win they push their agenda forward and if the 'token conservative' wins there is nobody there to stop the lefts agenda being pushed forward.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-11-07 17:18  

#8  Based on history, you can't win political elections by telling the truth: the people want to be lie to.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-11-07 16:00  

#7  They all go left once they get to DC. Some go further than others, but they all go left. Term limits are a start, but ultimately a much emasculated federal gummint is the only real fix.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-11-07 13:48  

#6  It's called Democracy, Flake. You lose.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-11-07 12:10  

#5  In other words: "I am a liar"
Posted by: Iblis   2017-11-07 11:16  

#4  Dave Weigel, The Washington Post: I called Jeff Flake the Sunday before the election. I said, “I have one round of questions if Hillary wins, and one if Trump wins.” And he just started laughing, saying, “Why would you bother asking the second one?”
LINK
Posted by: 3dc   2017-11-07 11:14  

#3  Sen. Flake on 'View': ‘You Can’t Win’ As a Republican by ‘Telling them the Truth that you're a Democrat’

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-11-07 08:16  

#2  "What's in your wallet" Jeff?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-07 07:24  

#1  BS.

You are a Democrat lite, not a Republican and certainly not a conservative.

Flake, you missed the zeitgeist of the times. A critical mass of Americans now understands that the debate is not and should not be whether or not the cogs in every alphabet agency clown farm get a 4.8% raise instead of a 5% raise like the Democrats want to do, it's whether the agency and those jobs should exist at all.

And the debate isn't whether or not we should keep giving millions of Americans unnecessary public sector anxiety-free and metric-free jobs in exchange for loyalty to whichever politicians gave them the jobs, bloating the size of the public "work" force by four times in two generations with no significant increase in the amount and quality of government services to show for it and paying for them with money borrowed against the future while looking the other way to let in foreigners to do the real work or not. This system cannot be tweaked, it is unsustainable and needs to be destroyed, no half-measures.
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-11-07 05:22  

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