Considering who you’re talking about here, that is a major fantasy with no basis in reality.
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Well, I must admit I’m a bit chagrined that I let Flake get a leg up on me here, but since the cows have left the barn . . .
I, too, am not ruling out a presidential bid in 2020. And that announcement is about as newsworthy as Flake’s.
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He is a scumbag. Even his local hometown paper is telling him not to seek reelection. And after decades his local hometown paper recognizes his lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.
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It is not an honor that I seek, but if my country needs me…
Yes. My hometown had one. And my College has a Carnegie Science building, as do many others.
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The libraries of NYC and the City Colleges of New York educated countless immigrant kids, who went on to great success. The generation of retiring scholars (and their families) owe much to those institutions and the GI bill.
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Well, the Trump kids probably don’t have much cash (even with DC Don throwing taxpayer cash at the Trump Organization every third day) …
He has a ready-made campaign slogan “More Qualified Than Trump”.
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Speaking of useless, tut-tutting P’s OS, where has Ben Sasse been lately? Haven’t heard anything at all out of him for months.
Yeah, I’m afraid it’s too good to last.
Both my small college, and my larger grad school (across the country) had Kresge Auditoriums. Over the years I have run across many others on college campuses. Don’t know anything about the Foundation - but it struck me that they did a similar (but smaller scale) thing for making sure preforming arts happened on college campuses, in a similar way to Carnegie building libraries in towns across the country.
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Flake’s runningmare on the GOP ticket will be Olympia Snowe.
Snowe/Flake GOP 2020.
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Yep, and they’d rather vote for someone who comes out and says the crazy and racist shit they do, than someone who solemnly tut-tuts about how terrible it is and then does it anyway.
I don’t want to claim Nostradamus like abilities here, but when Flake came out with his book a few months ago I said he was positioning himself as the anti-Trump for a run at the presidency. Then when he made his little nervous speech denouncing Trump’s behavior I said he was trying to carve out a path to higher office.
To say he is delusional is understating it. He thinks people like Republicans ideals and just hate Trump. He has it backwards. The base loves Trump and hates milquetoast Repubs like him - everyone else hates Republicans and their policies.
To me, Flake’s comments sound more like someone thinking of running third party / independent, as opposed to someone thinking of running in the GOP primaries. Unless something changes radically in the meantime Flake would get crushed by Trump in the GOP primaries (or by Pence or whoever is carrying the banner of Trumpism in the event that Trump isn’t running). It’s the Trumpublican Party now – anti-Trump forces within the party still exist, but they are badly outnumbered.
Flake has little to no chance of taking down Trump from within the party. And he has little to no chance of winning the Presidency himself as a third party / independent candidate.
But as a third party / independent candidate he might well have a chance of siphoning off a couple million votes from Trumpublican ticket.
So if that’s the plan, I say go for it, Jeff!
“I haven’t thought that deeply about it,” Flake, a longtime vocal critic of Trump, said Sunday during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” when asked about a potential presidential bid. “But I do believe if the President is running for reelection, if he continues on the path that he’s on, that that’s gonna leave a huge swath of voters looking for something else.”
previously
[Flake][1] scored only a 25 percent favorability rating among Republican primary voters in a new poll by the left-leaning GBA Strategies group, with a 56 percent unfavorable rating. Over half of voters disapprove of the job Flake is doing, with 59 percent disapproving and only 34 percent approving.
Flake did not vote for Trump in the 2016 election and has been articulate about his contempt for the President for months. The senator published a book this summer, criticizing conservatives in his party for backing Trump.
[link][2]
“I do worry, that in the future we’ll be faced with a President Trump running for reelection on one side, drilling down hard on a diminishing base and on the other side you might have you know somebody like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren on the far left of the Democratic Party,” he said. “That leaves a huge swath of voters in the middle, that may be looking for something else.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-billion-dollar-question-with-trumps-surge-will-bloomberg-run/2016/02/24/7e23dd38-d58b-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html
[1]: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/350458-dem-leaning-poll-shows-flake-down-huge-in-primary-and-general
[2]: Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump | FiveThirtyEight
In my mind, people like Flake are worse than Cruz because they pretend to be decent while their actions are just as bad. I believe in the value of niceties but Flake weaponizes them. Him and Sasse, I can’t stand them.
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