No, Jeff Flake, YOU are how we got Trump

[txradioguy]

Posted August 02, 2017 11:57 AM by Daniel Horowitz

What do you call someone who lectures players on how to play ball but then grounds into a double play every time he’s up to bat? A Jeff Flake. Or maybe just a plain flake.

If Senator Jeff Flake would expend a fraction of the energy he spends on sanctimoniously promoting his work on giving a forceful vision for conservatism on the Senate floor, we would have a different party. Most ironic, if not for the disgusting posturing and vacuous vision of those like Flake, we wouldn’t have Trump as the leader of the Republican Party in the first place. Flake is the embodiment of the intellectually bankrupt party that gave rise to Trump. Flake is so worried now about the effect of Trump on the party he never had a vision for before. If he wants to know how we got here, he should look in the mirror.

This week, the GOP media machine has been promoting Jeff Flake’s new book, a smug and sanctimonious polemic about his concerns over the future of conservatism. Except it has nothing to do with the authentic concerns all of us have about the party — the party that has stood for nothing on social, fiscal, or national security issues while the left has marched on, more truculent than ever in its pursuit of cultural and economic Marxism.

Jeff Flake is the poster child for the frustrating dynamic many of us have been confronted with in the past two years — the false choice between the status-quo failed GOP establishment and Trump. For those who were seeking a true American revolution built upon the timeless principles laid out in the original “Conscience of a Conservative,” written by Barry Goldwater, the debate over Trump has been a distraction. Most traditional conservatives are neither for nor against Trump; we are for the same agenda we have always supported, always seeking innovative strategies and tactics to promote timeless ideas. This distraction has been allowed to consume Republican politics because the voters got fed up with people like Jeff Flake.


https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/no-jeff-flake-you-are-how-we-got-trump

[corbe]

   The new book he's hawking about Conservatism (yea, right) should get his poll numbers out of the toilet/s


Poll: Flake’s approval rating in Arizona at 18 percent

 By Rebecca Savransky - 08/03/17 10:16 AM EDT 


Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has a job approval rating of only 18 percent in Arizona, according to a new poll.

A survey from the left-leaning Public Policy Pollin finds 62 percent disapprove of the job the senator is doing. Another 19 percent are not sure.

If the 2018 midterm election were held today, just 31 percent of respondents said they would support Flake's bid, compared to 47 percent who said they would support a generic Democratic opponent, according to the poll.

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http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/345129-poll-flakes-approval-rating-in-arizona-at-18-percent

[Cyber Liberty]

Some should ask Senator Flake if pulling strings at a County DA's office to spring your kid from animal cruelty charges (23 counts of dead dogs) is an appropriate use of Senatorial power.  I'll bet nobody does, nor utters the words "Green Acres."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/son-arizona-gop-senator-indicted-animal-cruelty-charges-article-1.1976838