AwwwwwwâŚtoooooooo badddddddddd
Donât let the door hit you in the back, you mealy-mouthed enabler
Hopefully he can be replaced with a Dem, otherwise it could be someone worse.
Time to cash in before a neo-Nazi (AKA The New Republicanât Mainstream) stomps him into irrelevancy in the 2018 primary election, thus cheating him out of a seven-figure âretirementâ on K-StreetâŚ
Iâm pleased to hear he didnât âprayâ about it.
âPapaw Corker, what did you do when Donald Trump was blowing up our country?â
âI quit and came home dear.â
âWhy didnât you make him stop?â
Rat, sinking ship, etc. Is there a TPMer with a good grasp of Tennessee politics out there? Does this open the door for Dems, or just for a crazed fascist?
Republicans retire for a few reasons:
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A scandal they fear will keep them from being reelected.
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A wave they fear will keep them from being reelected.
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Theyâre old as hell and fear they wonât be reelected.
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To get elected to higher office.
He only fits one of the above. He fears a wave.
Cooked Corker could have been one of my greatest senators. Now quitting because he doesnât think I could make him win again. No trust!
Ironic, because the first wave (within the party) has left him in the wake - at times he almost seems reasonable to the crackpottier and crackpottier other rw senators. To run equals facing a dual wave - in the primary when the trumpers exert will, and then in the general when the more woke voters who werenât voting start asserting themselves, even in Tennessee.
TN - it probably will be worse, a lot worse. Probably not as bad as Alabama though.
Alternate Headline: Corker Self-Corks!
(In Alabama) where the leading candidate in a national interview (Vox) stated that there were communities living under Sharia in Illinois or Indiana - Christian communities (he asserted). When asked about where, he basically said, well someone told me that. (Who Roy, Alex Jones?) Dimson nutjob.
Letâs all remember the quality campaign ad the RNC put out for Corkerâs election run, against the at-the-time front-runner, Harold Ford Jr.
Everyone really liked the Christian party putting a fake white hooker from a Playboy party in the ad, and finishing it up with her (only person you saw twice) saying âHarold, call me.â with a wink at a black candidate.
GOP, thy game is racist.
As always.
Roy Ray Roy Moore is so nutty heâs required to carry a backpack of epipens wherever he goes, just in case he bumps into the wrong constituent.
While Corker talked more normally, I canât think of a single vote he has taken that was not hard right. While he may not sound like a right-wing nut job, he has voted like one. Only McCain, Murkowski, Collins, and Paul have bucked the party line.
I draw a direct line between this and Moore/Bannon next door in Ala-biggot-nama. Corker knows he will be attacked from the right, and might not win a primary, so best to retire gracefully, which he was considering doing anyway.
But the big take away from this is that what was likely not a competitive seat (he would have won the primary, and easily won in the general) suddenly becomes a money draining race for the republican nomination, and a pick up shot for the Dâs.
If Moore wins tonight, this âscalpâ plus Moore will cause the Bannon wing to go into overdrive. A few of these primaries will produce Moore like candidates, and should create 1-2-3-4 pick up shots for the Dâs come 2018.
It is all good.
âI also believe the most important public service I have to offer our country could well occur over the next 15 months, and I want to be able to do that as thoughtfully and independently as I did the first 10 years and nine months of my Senate career,â he said.
Is that so, Senator? Would you like to expand on that?