Jeff Flake: "This is not who we are. This cannot be our party." David Corn: "This IS your party."

[Miles Archer]

Jeff Flake
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Fellow Republicans, this is not who we are. This cannot be our party.

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David Corn
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David Corn Retweeted Jeff Flake
This IS your party. And it's a culmination of years of the GOP exploiting racism and playing to extremists. Trump is not your problem. Your base is the problem. And your pleas for decency & common sense are not enough to change this.

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[chillfactor]

1. tell it like it is David.....

tRUMP, the cowardly republicans in the house and senate......THAT is the party Flake. That is YOUR party!

[Xipe Totec]

2. This is your party. You can cry if you want to. nt

[bobbieinok]

28. Great reference

[malaise]

31. Nicely done

Freaking perfect

[Dave Starsky]

33. ...

[gratuitous]

3. Soooo . . . what do you propose, Jeff?

You need Democrats to bail you out and clean up your mess again? Last time we did it, we made a little slogan so you'd remember how you'd fucked up: "General Motors is alive and bin Laden is dead."

We also tried to give Americans universal access to health care. But your party? You know, who you fucking are? Your party has spent the last eight years trying to return to those horrible times of unaffordable health insurance policies that don't cover anything, and denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions. That is you, that is your party. To a "T." Asswipe.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Hear hear!

[Raster]

40. Preach!!!

[erronis]

41. Perfect. I know in my heart I should forgive. But my brain says they are still ass-wipes.

Every repuglicon had a chance to change their jib over the years and not vote to support the anti-human platform that the has been foisted on the party by the plutocrats, rw alt-news, russians, nra.

I haven't seen any of the rats crossing the aisle while they are actively taking pay-offs. Maybe after they have decided to "spend time with family" or write some great expose.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The only GOPers who even complain are the ones who are retiring

and they're just farting in a whirlwind. And the rest are silent. When it comes time to vote all of them will do exactly what Trump wants, despite their lame protestations, so yes, this is exactly what the Republican party has become. They don't like his manners but they're just fine with his policies.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Trump could appoint Michael Cohen to the Supreme Court,

and every one of them would approve it. Every single fucking one of them.

[PaulX2]

23. Sick

But im still laughing...

[OldHippieChick]

37. Judge Jeanine Pirro will probably be his next

attempted appointment. I just hope we take over the Senate before that happens.

[Mr.Bill]

39. I hope so, too.

Because they will all vote for her, too.

[zentrum]

6. Right on, David Corn!

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, KGOP implemented voter suppression way before Red Don's reign

[thbobby]

8. Without racism, bigotry, and misogyny

the GOP has no base. Rich people are the main enablers, but with no hatred, they have no base.

[erronis]

42. Yup - the base is manufactured out of invisible cloth. The media is the message.

[djacq]

9. Orange is the new Republican Red

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. We've been making pleas for decency and common sense for decades

Pleas for decency and common sense enrage the Republican base.

[Mr.Bill]

12. Trump could announce at his next rally

that the November elections are being cancelled so illegal aliens can't vote and the cheering from the crowd would be deafening.

[Takket]

13. flake is a riot

"this is not who we are"

now excuse me while i back up all this stuff with my votes in congress.

[Cha]

14. So aside from Jeff Flake.. Navarro is calling Justin Trudeau

a Liar!

What the hell is their game here?

[cstanleytech]

15. Flakes probably looking to run for either the Whitehouse or as a govenor

and he is betting Trump will be a disaster and so he wants to try to play as a reasonable Repugnant but his vote on that tax bill says all we need to know about him.

[JHB]

16. Fork you,Flake

Link to tweet

This is definitely, absolutely, 100% who you are.
This is what your party has worked 40 years to become.
If you haven't noticed that until now you are frankly too stupid to be trusted with a fork much less serve the public.

[czarjak]

17. Republicans...

Wrong about everything, but damned proud of it!!!!!

[JHB]

18. No, Flakey-boy, you don't get do disown it...

Trump is the end result of 50 years of conservative absolutism. Phyllis Schafly wrote of " A Choice not an Echo", and and Trump is the end result of that choice.

[mountain grammy]

19. I'm guessing a million people besides David Corn told Flake the same thing.

I know I did.

[Miles Archer]

26. He got a lot of that in the replies to his tweet.

There is no "moral high ground" remaining for the GOP.

[PatrickforO]

20. Ultimately, the Republicans have doomed themselves as a party.

The problem is they might also have doomed all the rest of us.

We are AT the Republican party whether we want to be or not, because they control both houses of Congress, the White House, and increasingly the Judiciary.

Trouble is, it isn't a very good party. In fact it is a real drag.

But we can't leave.

[dobleremolque]

21. Jeff Flake always come to my mind

when I recall the quote by British writer Iain Banks:

"I'm not saying there are no decent people in the Tory [read Republican] party, but they're like bits of sweetcorn in a turd: technically they've kept their integrity but they're still embedded in shit."

[erronis]

43. Wonderful, and remembered both for the wit and the visual!

[calimary]

22. Sorry, Flake, that's EXACTLY who you are.

Who you are, Where you are, and What you are. As to WHY you are, don't bother with the Pollyanna stuff there either. We've already got your collective number on that one, too.

[Iliyah]

24. He still voting with his party . . .

tax scam and healthcare, so fuck him.

[PaulX2]

25. I Asked A Republican Childhood Friend To Name

Something about the Republican Party that wasnt evil and id give him $20. He couldnt.

[DesertRat]

27. Right on David Corn!

[Thekaspervote]

29. Then do something!! Like quit the repuke party... DO something

[onetexan]

30. Such an excellent, spot on rebuttal by David Corn

[Achilleaze]

32. the only true republican "values" at this point are greed & porno

they have lowered themselves and their behavior below the deplorable level and are now expressing themselves as traitors and moral degenerates....sad.

[DeminPennswoods]

34. Flake can do something about it

If Flake, Murkowski and Collins merely changed their party affiliation from Republican to Libertarian (which Flake is), Independent (that Murkowski was elected as) and Independent (that Collins likes to be thought of as), they along with Sens Sanders and King, they could vote as a bloc and would hold the balance of power in determining who the Senate Majority lead is.

For examaple, by nominating Sen King, they could vote with Dems and make him leader. That would certainly provide a check on Trump.

[Duppers]

35. +1000

"Your base is the problem. And your pleas for decency & common sense are not enough to change this."

BOOM! Truth.

[pecosbob]

36. This is exactly what I've been trying to say in all the Steve Schmidt appreciation threads lately

"This IS your party. And it's a culmination of years of the GOP exploiting racism and playing to extremists. Trump is not your problem. Your base is the problem. And your pleas for decency & common sense are not enough to change this."

[Raster]

38. Sorry Senator, THIS IS YOUR PARTY!

tRump* made a political name for himself by openly deriding President Barrack Obama and questioning his birthplace, his patriotism, and his religion, AND NOT ONE OF YOU fine, upstanding GOP stalwarts had the courage or the decency to call him on it.

Nope, you own this.

[Garrett78]

44. Yes, many years. Decades, in fact.

As I've written before:

50 years of Southern Strategy/dog whistling, race-based voter suppression, a successful "liberal media" campaign (resulting in a pathetic infotainment industry that won't call facts facts and falsehoods falsehoods, while promoting false equivalencies), Moral Majority bullshit, science denial, anti-intellectualism, etc.

I feel no sympathy or even much appreciation for Republicans (on TV or retiring from Congress) who are now speaking out against (only the most egregious aspects) of a monster they helped create.

[floWteiuQ]

45. Spot on...

It's positively disingenuous for these folks to just pretend this isn't the end results of the work and everything they've done since Reagan. The endless lies, fear, and hate seeded into their base has yielded such ugliness it defies any morality or decency.