Discussion: GOP Rep. Won't Say Whether He Wants Trump To Campaign For Him In 2018

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Be careful Issa

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Be afraid, Issa. Be very afraid.

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That’s a “No.”

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I think Clinton took Issa’s district in 2016.
Issa beat his D challenger by a very thin margin.

He doesn’t want Trump by his side.

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It appears to be dawning on Cong. Issa that he is “a dead man walking” in 2018. Good.

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Issa may not want Don the Con by his side, but his 2018 Democratic opponent will ensure they are tied to one another at the hip.

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“Would you want President Trump to come to your district and campaign for you?”

“Is Ebola an option?”

“How about Polonium?”

“Being eaten alive by North Korean dogs?”

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he really needs to

Trump has control of the GOP base and while the Freedom Caucus might survive the American version of the Ninth Thermidor, if 45’s relatives (or Conway) again pop off about folks being disloyal.

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Trump is poison:

Even the dumbest GOP freak knows that.

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he better pick somebody else then

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I think he’ll retire.

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They said trumPP would be the ruin of the R party if was nominated, then he’d be the ruin of the party if he was elected. This is what the predictions look like.

@irasdad There’s a scene in the not very good The Lost City of Z where a man who falls overboard into the Amazon is eaten by piranhas, an option we rarely consider.

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Issa and Chaffetz are two representatives I have been watching since the election as canaries in the Trump coal mine. I dislike them both intensely, but they are political survivors.

I haven’t seen any evidence of Chaffetz having an affair. I think he left because even in Utah, Trump is toxic and getting worse daily. Better to run for governor than lose in the midterms.

The odious Issa seems to have already figured out the Trump curse before election day. The president’s name is not even to be spoken. Shows that Issa was probably never a true believer. Like Chaffetz, I would say, he can tell which way the wind is blowing.

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Is this guy still relevant?

Wasn’t he forced to walk the Nunes before Nunes?

Still want to see him go down.

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Issa is scared. I picked that up immediately when he was on Bill Maher. He was sounding like a Democrat almost because he knows - he’s in California.

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I have wanted to see Issa go down, since he funded the recall petition in California against Governor Davis.

It would be so grand if the specter of Pennywise the President upended Issa’s political career.

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I would have a hard time deciding which would be worse for whom…Issa campaigning for Trump or Trump campaigning for Issa. It’s a race to the bottom of the barrel.

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Not to the Republican base. They’re still with him and that puts Issa into a quandary: reject Trump and get primaried or have the base not turn out for him. Stick with Trump and he loses moderate voters.

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‘Kitty’s son’ said that he isn’t going to run for any office in '18, so unless he has a plan to be the guy who replaces the guy who replaced Herbert…then I wish him well.

Now he should be careful, because while its not certain if Trump’s involvement will hobble Handel, what is clear is that folks like ‘nanny’ (Conway) do know how to throw shade at folks who are seen as disloyal.

By shade, I mean kicking folks when they are down.

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