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Monday, October 30, 2017

JEFF FLAKE MAKES NOISE ABOUT RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT…


Nothing makes it more clear, when it comes to just how much of a RINO fraud Jeff Flake of Arizona is than the recent news that he is at least now considering running for his seat as an Independent by giving his blessing to an outside organization to conduct polling to explore just such a possibility.  I’m sure everyone remembers when Flake announced last Tuesday that he would not be seeking re-election to a second Senate term next year in light of his dire chances of winning a Republican primary and his frustration with the tenure of President Donald Trump.  Polling showed him trailing his insurgent challenger, Kelli Ward, by double digits.  But now Flake has come up with what he sees as being a Plan B that would likely result in nothing more than to hand the seat to the Democrats.  Which is apparently his preference.

The Centrist Project, which is a group created to recruit independent candidates, apparently approached Flake about running outside the dominant two-party system during a meeting this past Friday.  The senator signaled he was open to the possibility and was interested in what polling would show. A spokesperson for Flake did not respond to an inquiry.  After initial publication of this story, the senator tweeted that an independent run is “not gonna happen.”  Flake tweeted, “I subscribe to the old saw Running as an Independent is the future ... and will always be the future.” And he continued shortly afterward with another post saying, “I am a conservative and a Republican. This fever will someday break and we can rebuild our party once more.”  Personally, I would not trust this guy as far as I could throw him.  

The Centrist Project is planning to poll Flake's chances as an independent in a three-way race this week.  While Flake is skeptical about the feasibility of an independent run, the source says, he indicated he was open to the idea if he's provided a viable path to victory.  Since Flake's announcement last week, a segment of Republican and Independent-leaning donors also have been encouraging the option.  The source attributed Flake's public disinterest in an independent run to public pressure from Republicans.  Joel Searby, a strategist for The Centrist Project said, “Donors and like-minded Americans who care about a functioning democracy are realizing they're going to have to look to new options as party primaries continue to not only encourage but essentially guarantee the most extreme candidates.”

Searby added, “In the case of Jeff Flake, people from both the center-right and center-left realize that they can basically have whichever most extreme Republican emerges from the primary or, as an independent, a level-headed, principled Jeff Flake. When they start thinking in those terms, they begin to realize it's time for reconsidering the old ways.”  And if Flake should launch such a bid, it would further complicate what's already expected to be a highly competitive race.  While Ward has been in the contest for a year, White House aides, leery about her candidacy, have been looking for alternatives.  GOP Rep. Martha McSally made members of the Arizona congressional delegation aware she’s weighing entering the contest, and Jay Heiler, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents, has formed an exploratory committee.

Meanwhile Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is already in the race and is not expected to face a difficult primary which means that she be able to horde whatever money will predictably be coming her way from all across the country.  You see, this is the way these scumbag RINOs like Flake operate.  They’re never stratified to simply take their ball and go home.  They always feel compelled to take things a step or two beyond that, hoping to inflict as much damage as they can against the team who saw fit to remove them from their ranks.  Because it must always be made to be about them and not, as it was this case, being about what’s best for our country.  They don’t care about what’s best for the country, only about what’s best from them.  Flake learned that lesson very well from his presumed mentor, John McCain.

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