Corker is a buffoon...

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TennTom said:
Funny stuff. Welcome to reality now.

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TT, I’m really trying to follow mcpops advise by just let the petty crap go but you make it hard for me not to call you a blazing idiot. This whole thread has been about TN leadership so I didn’t feel the need to say the numbers in TN don’t compute to a Bredesen win. Do you need me to post the links that show the huge disparity in numbers betwixt the two?
 
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An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated

Former Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker isn't ruling out another bid for office amid his party's reckoning.

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Forgive Bob Corker if he sounds like he’s going to say, “I told you so.”

The former senator was lonely as a Republican critic of President Donald Trump, beginning in 2017. While most GOP lawmakers kept quiet about their concerns, Corker warned the White House had become an “adult daycare” and that Trump’s Cabinet members “help separate our country from chaos.” He even held a hearing to scrutinize the president’s power to use nuclear weapons.

Corker retired rather than run for a third term in 2018 amid a feud with Trump and potentially tough primary. But after a flood of GOP condemnation of Trump for inciting a deadly riot at the Capitol, the Tennessee Republican says he’s been vindicated.

An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated

Former Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker isn't ruling out another bid for office amid his party's reckoning.

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Forgive Bob Corker if he sounds like he’s going to say, “I told you so.”

The former senator was lonely as a Republican critic of President Donald Trump, beginning in 2017. While most GOP lawmakers kept quiet about their concerns, Corker warned the White House had become an “adult daycare” and that Trump’s Cabinet members “help separate our country from chaos.” He even held a hearing to scrutinize the president’s power to use nuclear weapons.

Corker retired rather than run for a third term in 2018 amid a feud with Trump and potentially tough primary. But after a flood of GOP condemnation of Trump for inciting a deadly riot at the Capitol, the Tennessee Republican says he’s been vindicated.

An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated
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Thankfully he’s out of office.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
These are the men that ruined the GOP. Had it not been for these types, Trump wouldn't have been in play in 2016. Corker, Alexander, Ryan, Romney, McCain, Lindsey Graham... these guys aren't worth 2 day old used toilet tissue.
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Both Romney and Graham got a ration of sh!t just recently as well. Romney on a plane and Graham in the airport. I would be surprised if Romney gets re-elected and Graham just did get re-elected by hanging on to Trump's coattails, but he felt comfortable in condemning Trump on the floor of the senate so don't look for him to curry much favor anymore. All of the rest of them are dead or gone including out 2 rinos from Tennessee.
 
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hog88 said:
Thankfully he’s out of office.
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Huh? like him or not, he was spot on about Trump.
Corker term limited himself and suddenly he is the type of politician we want to get rid of. We’d rather have a ****ing nut like Trump defining the GOP? Good lawd.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
These are the men that ruined the GOP. Had it not been for these types, Trump wouldn't have been in play in 2016. Corker, Alexander, Ryan, Romney, McCain, Lindsey Graham... these guys aren't worth 2 day old used toilet tissue.
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You nailed it.
 
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Roustabout said:
Huh? like him or not, he was spot on about Trump.
Corker term limited himself and suddenly he is the type of politician we want to get rid of. We’d rather have a ****ing nut like Trump defining the GOP? Good lawd.
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I never voted for the guy, he’s a slimy self serving POS.
 
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Just how far to the right are y'all wanting Republicans to be? Are you really willing to disenfranchise the moderates for some high-minded platform purity that's never existed?
 
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AshG said:
Just how far to the right are y'all wanting Republicans to be? Are you really willing to disenfranchise the moderates for some high-minded platform purity that's never existed?
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Corker is as far left as Biden so.
 
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I kinda get the feeling that the standard of proof around here is "anyone who doesn't agree with me is a left liberal democrat"
 
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AshG said:
I kinda get the feeling that the standard of proof around here is "anyone who doesn't agree with me is a left liberal democrat"
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Been called that and a Trump slurper on this forum. It makes my day complete
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated

Former Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker isn't ruling out another bid for office amid his party's reckoning.

90


Forgive Bob Corker if he sounds like he’s going to say, “I told you so.”

The former senator was lonely as a Republican critic of President Donald Trump, beginning in 2017. While most GOP lawmakers kept quiet about their concerns, Corker warned the White House had become an “adult daycare” and that Trump’s Cabinet members “help separate our country from chaos.” He even held a hearing to scrutinize the president’s power to use nuclear weapons.

Corker retired rather than run for a third term in 2018 amid a feud with Trump and potentially tough primary. But after a flood of GOP condemnation of Trump for inciting a deadly riot at the Capitol, the Tennessee Republican says he’s been vindicated.

An early Republican Trump critic feels vindicated
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He knows he doesn’t have a chance in hell of being re-elected
 
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AshG said:
Just how far to the right are y'all wanting Republicans to be? Are you really willing to disenfranchise the moderates for some high-minded platform purity that's never existed?
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Is Trump far right in your opinion?

Or is it strictly the media portrait of Trump that has been painted combined with his personality that is unavoidable?

I think his policies have been significantly better than the previous 16 years. I can’t think of anything he’s done that would be considered far right if someone else had done the same.
 
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ajvol01 said:
Is Trump far right in your opinion?

Or is it strictly the media portrait of Trump that has been painted combined with his personality that is unavoidable?

I think his policies have been significantly better than the previous 16 years. I can’t think of anything he’s done that would be considered far right if someone else had done the same.
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Trump's policies, for the most part, have been fairly center-right. I kept hoping to actually see a fleshed out plan to replace the ACA so I could decide whether or not to get behind it, but the can kept being kicked down the road. I can only support repeal if I know what it's being replaced with. But, I digress.

His behavior, though, has been textbook fascist/cult of personality. His policies, I could possibly get behind. His behavior, I prayed about and I just couldn't support them in office anymore.
 
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AshG said:
Trump's policies, for the most part, have been fairly center-right. I kept hoping to actually see a fleshed out plan to replace the ACA so I could decide whether or not to get behind it, but the can kept being kicked down the road. I can only support repeal if I know what it's being replaced with. But, I digress.

His behavior, though, has been textbook fascist/cult of personality. His policies, I could possibly get behind. His behavior, I prayed about and I just couldn't support them in office anymore.
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I guess what I may never understand is the disconnect between what he did (policies, actions, peace deals) and what the country focused on (90% negative media coverage).

I was swayed by the media in ‘16. Didn’t vote for Trump. After he won I decided to give him a chance.

Remember when the media predicted he’d start WW3? Remember all the Hitler comparisons?

I just can’t understand how reasonable people who can be objective about

A) what they’re being told to think (media narrative)
vs
B) what they themselves think of the actual events (who, what, when, where)

don’t recognize or realize the media’s role in consistently beating the drum of negativity to paint Trump as the worst president in history

AND

how that media coverage impacts public opinion.

What would have happened if the MSM coverage was similar to the way the media covered Obama?
 
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ajvol01 said:
I guess what I may never understand is the disconnect between what he did (policies, actions, peace deals) and what the country focused on (90% negative media coverage).

I was swayed by the media in ‘16. Didn’t vote for Trump. After he won I decided to give him a chance.

Remember when the media predicted he’d start WW3? Remember all the Hitler comparisons?

I just can’t understand how reasonable people who can be objective about

A) what they’re being told to think (media narrative)
vs
B) what they themselves think of the actual events (who, what, when, where)

don’t recognize or realize the media’s role in consistently beating the drum of negativity to paint Trump as the worst president in history

AND

how that media coverage impacts public opinion.

What would have happened if the MSM coverage was similar to the way the media covered Obama?
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I'll be frank here - as someone who got out of a cult-adjacent religious upbringing (backwoods premillenial free will footwashing baptist, some non-denominational), seeing his own tweets and his own speeches (I don't have cable or satellite tv, don't read cnn or fox online), it was too similar to the pastors I'd escaped from in tone and message.
 
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AshG said:
I'll be frank here - as someone who got out of a cult-adjacent religious upbringing (backwoods premillenial free will footwashing baptist, some non-denominational), seeing his own tweets and his own speeches (I don't have cable or satellite tv, don't read cnn or fox online), it was too similar to the pastors I'd escaped from in tone and message.
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Okay now. You be Frank, and I'll be 72......at least I will be in December.
 
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