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Flake out – Update: That’s what he said!

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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) doesn’t like the bed he helped be-shit, so he won’t run next year.

Flake said he has not “soured on the Senate” and loves the institution, but that as a traditional, libertarian-leaning conservative Republican he is out of step with today’s Trump-dominated GOP.

The difference being Flake doesn’t grope the widows and orphans before he shoves them out on the street and auctions off their worldly goods. Character! And Conscience!

Flake was set to publicly announce his intentions in a Senate floor speech to be delivered at 12:20 p.m. Arizona time.

In his prepared remarks, Flake gives a blistering critique of the “coarseness of our national dialogue” that has defined the Trump era, saying it should never become accommodated as a “the new normal.”

“We must never regard as ‘normal’ the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals,” Flake says in his remarks as prepared for delivery. “We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.

“None of these appalling features of our current politics should ever be regarded as normal,” he says in his speech.

Since I refuse to believe Flake didn’t understand what the GOP stands for, I assume he’s lamenting the dearth of adept dog-whistlers.

Update: Here’s the prepared text of Flake’s speech.

It is certain to put some puff in the pants of Republicans and other conservatives who want to pretend that they had it right, but that RINO tRump ruined everything. What the speech – which already has some members of the press That’s the day he became presidenting all over themselves – does not contain is why he isn’t running. Other than he believes the coarse environment threatens his chances of getting the nomination.

It is clear at this moment that a traditional conservative who believes in limited government and free markets, who is devoted to free trade, and who is pro-immigration, has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican party — the party that for so long has defined itself by belief in those things. It is also clear to me for the moment we have given in or given up on those core principles in favor of the more viscerally satisfying anger and resentment.

OK, bye Flakeicia.

To be clear, the anger and resentment that the people feel at the royal mess we have created are justified. But anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy.

No please, GTFO.

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