It actually took him some time?
Learning disorder?
Like from the moment he came down that escalator in Drumpf Towerā¦
Who did you vote for, Bob?
Bob Corker: YEA
The Tennessee senator, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he is willing to help Trump. Corker praised Trumpās otherwise widely panned foreign-policy address and is reportedly talking to him about overseas matters. Heās been mentioned as VP candidate. (May 10, 2016)
āWhen was ya breaking point, Bob?ā
Corker has long passed the period within which Republicans will invariably publicly recant and express remorse for not toeing the line. There must not be much pressure from his Senate colleagues to back down, a beginning of a beginning, perhaps.
Divorce is a long process. The problems start years before there is action taken ā emotional attachment, obligations to family and financial entanglements holds a person back often for years. The situation has to become untenable ā become a matter of survival ā to finally push people out of their commitment and habit. For a person like Corker, its not simply a matter of divorcing trump. Its basically divorcing the GOP ā his professional family. I will not judge him based on how late he is to this decision. I encourage him. I encourage John McCain. I encourage anyone in the GOP who is willing to open their eyes and make the leap.
15 month countdown on being ejected from the bubble. Will have to hobknob.
Precisely so. Corker and I do not see eye to eye on a lot of things. He is my political opponent on most subjects. When he takes the most important and most serious step to recognize he and I have a common enemy, and I use that word very intentionally, I will not snipe and throw shells from the peanut gallery.
Has Corker used the āIā word yet?
To add: indeed, losing the capacity to recognize the difference between opponent and enemy is exactly what led the GOP to its modern disjoint form, where accepting Russian interference in free and fair elections is a good thing if it helps you beat a Democrat. It is critically important that we recognize and learn from their mistake.
I think Bob Corker is a backwards-thinking dumbass, and Iām sure he thinks the same of me, but before that, underneath that, we are Americans who stand for democracy, and so I stand with him.
borrowing a line from Diehard, I have no problem telling Corker "welcome to the party, palā, but unless he states a moment that had him on the outs with Trump (and before he decided on retiring), he was a Trump supporter from way back when and its still hard to see him as sincere.
In one way, they hired an exterminator, only to find out they actually got an arsonist. Their problems may go away, but the house will burn to the ground in the process.
I suspect it is like that for people like Corker. A little forethought and spine might have informed them. We discuss the tipping point, well it is everything, not just one.
It just had to get to the point where he blew his corker, I guess.
Excellent post. We all indulge in the outrage-porn thing here and get a shot of dopamine from it, and we ascribe the absolute foulest of motives to anyone who ever supported the GOP in general and Trump in particular, but thereās really, really more to it than that, and itās not quite as clear-cut. It takes some gumption to argue with a crowd, and thatās what Corker is doing right now. Iāll bet anyone 20 bucks heās gotten his share of death threats. Heās obviously going in for a career change. Thatās what renouncing Trump and the GOP amounts to right now. Most people would pause before taking the plunge. People are funny about this kind of thing, in ways you might understand if they could talk about it frankly.
A number of Republicans who disagree with Trump have tried to claim that heās not a real conservative. As we all know, Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.
Similiarly, Trump can never fail, he can only be failed - by the press, by the Senate, by the āadvisorsā surrounding him, etc.
Now, if A=C, and B=C, then A=B.
Therefore, not only is Trump a Conservative, Trump IS Conservatism.
Great point. And so damn familiar.
That was the line at the end of Wās presidency. He wasnāt Conservative at all, they didnāt need to rethink their position, they just needed to stay true to (Grievance/petulance - not principals, clearly) and Double Down (18 month later came the big embrace of the Tea Party.
Trump is a narcissistic mutation of the Tea Party - whether itās āconservativeā or not - it IS the modern GOP.
So when a Republican from a deep southern red state realizes Trump is unfit for office and needs to be impeachedā¦how on earth canāt Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan realize the same thing.
IMPEACH Trump & Pence. They are both unfit for office and they both have to answer for their collusion with Putin and the Russians.
Slow and steady ā¦ let Trump win the Presidency.
Really, Bob, what took you so long?