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kentuck

(111,104 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:16 PM Oct 2017

Flake says "there is no place in this Republican Party" for him...

The conservative Party of Ronald Reagan and all the Republicans since, is dead.

Unless they can divorce themselves from the cult of Trump?

Otherwise, the Party is dead and will need to re-create itself as something different from Trump, or it will never exist as a credible political Party?

There is room in the Democratic Party but the Democratic Party would never accept them, and anyway, they would probably never want to be Democrats?

One Party cannot change without the other Party also changing. The change will affect us all.

There are a lot of unknowns in the political decisions of today.

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kentuck

(111,104 posts)
2. I would not call it BS...
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:20 PM
Oct 2017

He differentiated himself from Trump and those that are complicit with him, in my opinion.

JI7

(89,252 posts)
6. Why is it bs ? The problem with trump is not that he is conservative. I would never support a democr
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:55 PM
Oct 2017

That behaved like trump even if i agreed with them on all issues.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
7. Or to look at it another way....
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 08:01 PM
Oct 2017

Trump pretended to be a Republican and he agreed with the Republican Party over 90% of the time, in order to win their time and allegiance.

global1

(25,253 posts)
4. I Think Both Corker And Flake Will Primary Trump In 2020....
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:49 PM
Oct 2017

I believe both of them will run for the presidency. I don't know if we'll have quite the clown car we did in 2016 - but you can bet your boots that Trump will have some competition.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
8. Didn't they have 12 people tryout for the nomination?
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 08:03 PM
Oct 2017

The gop picked him and Americans picked him (not more than voted for Hillary).

They're stuck with him, unless they'd like to remove him.

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