Outgoing Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) — a frequent critic of the President — wouldn’t say whether President Trump should be primaried during an interview with MSNBC on Sunday.
“I want to get away from here and think about it, I mean this is an every day in the hallway question, right? I want to get away from here and think about that,” he said. “What is happening right now is not the standard Republicanism that we’ve had in our country for many, many years and it’s very different. So, is it important for someone to get there and at least remind people in their Republican primary what Republicans generally speaking have been about for generations?”
“I think it’s important to remind people that we’re going through an anomaly right now as it relates to much of the standard Republican focus that’s been around for a long time,” he continued.
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“I think it’s important to remind people that we’re going through an anomaly right now as it relates to much of the standard Republican focus that’s been around for a long time,” he continued.
That’s a lot of BS. Trump is the logical outcome of the direction the GOP has been steering since, oh, Nixon. The only hope for this country is the complete implosion of the Republican party and Trump may have been the final straw.
Oh, get away and stay away, you are part of the problem.
I want to get away and think about it for awhile. Because on the one hand, he is a raving delusional sociopath criminal, but on the other hand he made me and my wife rich in the Tax Bill where us GOP Budget Hawks created a permanent deficit our great grand children will still be dealing with.
He, Flake, and Ryan all have the acrid smell of someone considering a run at the GOP nomination in 2020.
Yuck.
“Just like Trump policy-wise but with occasional ineffectual rodent-like squeaks meant to resemble dissent” doesn’t really have the sort of ring to it that I associate with successful Presidential campaign.
He tried. He almost managed to form the words of the Grand Overarching Understatement that characterizes these times: This Is Not Normal. But he’s smart enough to see that opposing Trump won’t work within the party. And he’s 66. So yeah, what to do, Bob? You wouldn’t be a shoo-in if times were normal. Maybe you should just go away and stay away.