Suddenly there’s a lot of sense coming out of Arizona. Jeff Flake wrote this today:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us.
I wonder if Jeff Flake is owning up to his own role in all this, or if this is his way of pretending he’s one of those “good conservatives” who doesn’t do such things, as a prelude to needing to keep his Senate seat in 2018.
On a question about Republican leaders’ refusal to hold confirmation hearings for Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, Flake said the move was not without precedent. A man in the audience shouted, “Bulls—!” as the crowd chanted “shame on you.”
Bullshit indeed.