Jeff Flake: GOP Needs to ‘Shun This Conspiratorial
Fringe Element of the Party,’ Including Trump
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Trent Baker
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Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/29/2021 9:27:26 AM
Friday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) urged the GOP to “shun” the “conspiratorial fringe element of the party” if it wants to win elections moving forward.
Flake, who has long been vocal about his disdain for former President Donald Trump, emphasized that Republicans should break from Trump and his supporters like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and instead turn to someone like former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
“I do believe … that most Republicans out there want to get back to a party that believes in ideas, the kind that Paul Ryan described.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 5/29/2021 9:35:31 AM (No. 799927)
What a flake.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/29/2021 9:37:55 AM (No. 799932)
We already did shun the fringe element: we got rid of him
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Well boyo, there’s a great difference between merely winning an election, as you types sometimes manage to somehow do, and effectively and properly governing. It does not include reaching across the aisle to deal with the enemy of America, the D party. Use power when you earn it and use it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/29/2021 9:38:22 AM (No. 799934)
Flake IS a flake, and there IS NO going back. Going back is more Flakes and Ryans, Romneys and Murkowskis, Collins, etc. THEY are the ones to shun and shame. They may not be the architects of our failures, but they are the foundation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/29/2021 9:39:04 AM (No. 799935)
Unfortunately, Flake has just enough gray matter to know that if he changed over to the Democrats (where he belongs), he'd never get another CNN gig.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 5/29/2021 9:46:37 AM (No. 799943)
He’s still around? Speaking of moving on...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/29/2021 9:57:30 AM (No. 799952)
If the Republican Party shunned the seventy something percent of Republican voters who supported Trump in the 2020 election and thereafter the remainder of the Republican Party would be dead meat politically.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena 5/29/2021 10:00:30 AM (No. 799955)
Flake doesn't realize that he is the fringe element of the Republican party.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
starboard 5/29/2021 10:07:38 AM (No. 799963)
I wish Arizonans would pay homage to a Veteran of distinction Barry Goldwater, a truly admirable Senator from their state who fought in WW 2 and served in the Korean War. He wrote the book ... Conscience of a Conservative.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/29/2021 10:16:13 AM (No. 799970)
Once a Flake, always a flake.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/29/2021 10:19:31 AM (No. 799972)
We make fun of people like Flake, but he and his ilk are dangerous. The left holds them up as the standard of thought in the Republican Party which could not be further from the truth. Our radical fringe is not white supremacists, it is the wanna be democrats posing as republicans. They are out there popping off any chance they can get to disparage President Trump and callings his supporters radicals and even terrorists. What a boatload of garbage. We are the law and order, pro-military and law enforcement, secure border, Constitution loving, hard working tax payers who make the country work. Flake does not know us and he does not want to get to know us. We are beneath him. We are not in his highfalutin league. Therefore, he dismisses is as “less than”. Jeff Flake is a tool or a more descriptive phrase would be useful idiot of the left.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/29/2021 10:19:59 AM (No. 799974)
Flake and the rest of the RINOS should be shunned and purged from the Republican Party. One by one we should Primary them as their term is up and they think they are going to run again for the Cushy job they have! They are the Roaches of the Republican Party. They get stepped on and they keep running. We need to squash them so they are gone from the party for good! I think we're likely(after watching Biden and the Democrats ruin this country)o find more and more competent candidates who are true Republicans to run against these RINOS!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/29/2021 10:25:40 AM (No. 799981)
First Paul Ryan, and now Jeff Flake. What do they have in common? Neither are in government because they chose not to run for re-election because they knew they would lose because they were RINOs. Apparently both think they still have a career in government. They do not. They have been rejected by their own supporters. The 'R' after their name should stand for REJECT. Instead of an 'R' after their name, it should say 'Rej'. Ryan(Rej) and Flake(Rej).
Perhaps there should be a Reject party. No politician wants to be a member of it, but they are put their by the voting public when soundly repudiated. It would carry the meaning if they ever try to run for government again, do not vote for them. They have been tried, and found a failure.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 5/29/2021 10:26:22 AM (No. 799983)
Why am I not surprised this crackpot, sewer dwelling imbecile is on CNN,,,,birds of a feather.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/29/2021 10:33:33 AM (No. 799989)
Political convictions are like religious convictions: Sometimes even life-changing events won't alter a person's mind. I think Flake is 'whistling past the graveyard' by eschewing the conservative movement taking place among the Deplorables.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/29/2021 11:02:44 AM (No. 800006)
Oh, Flake, so the RINO Bend over for Democraps is NOT the fringe?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2021 11:14:12 AM (No. 800018)
We have rid ourselves of Flake, Ryan, and Romney and more are on the schedule to be removed, too.
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Then, the GOP will have shunned itself. Is that possible?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/29/2021 11:19:51 AM (No. 800023)
#13. What do Flake and Ryan have in common? They showed that they are both weak when it came to standing up to the aggressive leftist and liberal Democrats during political “nut cutting” processes. They either covertly comply with the Democrat political agenda, and take the slice of the pie that the Democrats allow them to have, or know they will get stomped into the gutter.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/29/2021 11:27:43 AM (No. 800036)
How about this buffoon go after the Democrats and the administration for letting the ILLEGALS run amok in his state of AZ? Twerp
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
SALady 5/29/2021 11:34:56 AM (No. 800044)
On the plus side, if he said this on the Communist News Network (CNN), then probably only 6 or 7 people saw it (based on their current viewership numbers)...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TundraStan 5/29/2021 11:47:09 AM (No. 800058)
It’s frustrating to hear all the rinos are going to do, but never do. As the puppet of the dems, I am tired of being them begging me to pay for my God given rights, noted in the constitution, to be stolen. I am supposed to say thanks and write a big check. Flake, go join the dems along with Romney, Ryan, Collins, etc. I would fill in more names but my hand gets tired of typing and my BP needs some relief.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/29/2021 11:52:55 AM (No. 800065)
Fringe element that would be a fringe element of 75 million or more if flakey Flake chose to see.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/29/2021 12:12:04 PM (No. 800079)
Hey, Flakey, now that your state of Arizona has shown it can rig elections so that the losing candidate wins, maybe they can get you your old Senate job back. But, you'll probably have to run as a Democrat, like Arlen Specter.
But, with your total absence of honor and morals, that switchover shouldn't be hard for you at all.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 5/29/2021 12:12:46 PM (No. 800081)
It isn't a "theory" if it is true. Trump has been right on so many levels including the Covid mess that Fauci is now admitting his criminal contribution to the crime.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
cold porridge 5/29/2021 12:38:27 PM (No. 800099)
He's as delusional as Liz Chaney.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/29/2021 1:00:20 PM (No. 800119)
These people stick around and keep mouthing their nasty absurdities. And the media print every word.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/29/2021 1:04:21 PM (No. 800124)
What Flake is really saying is that to win elections in the future, one must be a democrat.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/29/2021 1:29:03 PM (No. 800144)
We have shunned the fringe element of the Republican Party, that being Jeff Flake, who is ostracized and invited to shut up and never come back.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Luke21 5/29/2021 1:45:00 PM (No. 800156)
#9 At the end, Goldwater was a senile old liberal who was brought out by the media just like Mitt Romney to denounce Republicans. He wrote his last book, "With No Apologies, Barry Goldwater" which didn't resemble the earlier book you mentioned. We were sick of him by the end. He even came out for abortion.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
columba 5/29/2021 2:16:26 PM (No. 800176)
The people who ran Russia just ahead of the Soviet take over would agree with this CNN nut.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
janjan 5/29/2021 3:00:19 PM (No. 800216)
This ‘fringe element’ Flake refers to happens to be the vast majority of Republican voters. He and the rest of the RINO’s should start their own Party and see how far they get. They still think we’re all about Trump. We are all about draining the filthy swamp in Washington whether it’s Trump doing it or some other worthy successor. It is the Jeff Flakes of the world who will be shunned.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 5/29/2021 3:08:27 PM (No. 800224)
CNN and.... every washed-up, irrelevant, past his or her sell by date politician we ever had the misfortune and lack of judgment to elect in days gone by. I suspect that Stelter and Cuomo have each of these losers on their speed dial. What is distressing is the alacrity with which they respond to the call. Faster than Pavlov's dogs salivated. And just as appealing.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2021 4:42:02 PM (No. 800278)
OP nails it.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/29/2021 5:17:23 PM (No. 800311)
I think CNN just ran over a skunk with the car windows open! What IS that smell?!!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
rochow 5/29/2021 5:44:46 PM (No. 800333)
So, crooked nosed Flake is on drugs now?!?! Paul Ryan, right! AND his ideas!!! Right, Those for me and the other ideas for you the stupid little people. I always said, Flake is so very aptly named!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
broken01 5/30/2021 6:08:31 PM (No. 801123)
Isn’t Jeffie Flakety Flake Flake the cowardly putz that got accosted by two female leftards in the Capitol elevator during that other putz Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. The dummy doesn’t get it. RINOs like him are the fringe of the Republican Party. That’s why his sorry butt is gone.
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He certainly lives up to his last name, doesn't he??