OPINION:
This is getting a bit ridiculous. First, Sen. Bob Corker. Then, Sen. Jeff Flake. Always and forever, Sen. John McCain. And now?
Former Sen. Tom Coburn has taken up the anti-Donald Trump wheel and rolled it right into the hallways of The New York Times to bash this president.
Can we get an 11th Commandment, anyone? That’s the one Ronald Reagan famously uttered that went like this: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Coburn’s on-record and now, widely reported, remarks: “We have a leader who has a personality disorder.”
And just to jog the memory, this is after Flake on Tuesday said from the Senate floor — for all to hear, particularly the left-leaners in the media who quickly invited him on their shows — this bit of bashing: “Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.”
Blah, blah, blah. Flake went on — but wait a moment, hold the phone, it seems he failed to mention that the president he was busily bashing was actually someone with whom he voted nearly 92 percent of the time. Curious omission, yes?
Corker, also within the past few days, claimed Trump was “debasing” the United States with his nasty tweets and talk. McCain, meanwhile, has been offering up a steady diet of anti-Trumpisms since the campaign days.
They share another common denominator — the fact they’re all at the ends of their political careers. Trump, meanwhile, is just getting going. And honestly, nothing speaks louder than that.
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