GOP Senator: 'I Don't Consider The President A Role Model For My Kids'

[StrictlyRockers]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-senator-lankford-said-he-does-not-consider-president-role-model-for-kids

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) slammed President Donald Trump’s behavior on Sunday, saying that he does not consider the President a role model for his kids, and that he would never speak or treat his staff the way Trump does.

“I don’t want my kids to speak the way he speaks or make some of the choices, and it has been the challenge for quite a bit of time to say, how do you balance this out between policy and personal behavior in the way he has his own unique style,” he said to MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. “I don’t speak that way. I don’t tweet that way. I don’t interact with people that way. I don’t treat my staff the way he treats his staff.

[Dan]

1. Yes that may be

true, but as long as he has a "R" by his name, I will support him 100%.

[quartz007]

2. Lankford considers himself superior to tRump?

May be he will run for president in 2020 and primary the rough speaking tRump. Good luck senator!

[cyclonefence]

3. Mild as this criticism is,

I think it's significant. No one except men who were retiring has dared say *anything* like this. I think this might be a tiny crack in the wall that will grow over the next weeks.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. I agree. Let's hope the dam breaks soon.

I think it will once Mueller releases his obstruction report and the next round or two of indictments.

We need to shame about 19 Republican senators into supporting conviction after impeachment, even if it’s just so they don’t look like co-conspirators going into the midterms — a tall order, since they are mostly shameless. But when more of Trump’s corruption is unsealed and widely known, and more indictments handed down, I expect the public to react in horror and outrage, and not just from our side. By then it could be a whole different ballgame.

If Congress won’t impeach and convict for obstruction, we hammer the hell out of them all, straight to November. Then once the Russia report is released, we try him for bribery and conspiracy, high crimes indeed.

[mercuryblues]

4. He may not like the way trump acts

but he sure as shit supports it. With every vote he makes. If he wants to show his disapproval, he can vote for impeachment when the time comes. Anything less than that, he is a just another lying blowhard.

[guillaumeb]

6. Agreed. eom

[malaise]

7. Ding ding

The truth

[DFW]

5. Most Americans don't consider him a role model for Republicans, either

But Republican Senators and Representatives, including Lankford, vote with him just about all of the time, so they must like him an awful lot, even if they don't want their kids to grow up to be awful parents and indifferent egomaniacs.

"I don't interact with people that way." Really? That's a sneaky lie if ever I heard one. Every time you vote with him in Congress, every time you vote to confirm one of his insultingly unqualified appointments, you interact with people that way, because your vote affects every last one of us, you sanctimonious right wing piece of trash. Lankford's credibility on a scale of one to one hundred is way behind the decimal point that has only a zero to the left of it.

[Uncle Joe]

11. It's about money for the less than 1%, they will always rally behind that cause

The tax bill has been passed and that was a preeminent motivation for them.

I suspect more Republicans will come out against Trump as the primary season progresses.

With an ever diminishing number of them being in danger of becoming primaried, their "moral courage" will increase as a result.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Words are cheap asswipe. Do something. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

9. The ugly truth.

It says something that it took someone like Trump to deliver their hateful agenda, since he is the perfect symbol for their programs. Intentional arrogance and entitlement. There is no way to disguise it.

[spanone]

10. yet he supports trump by voting positively on his agenda....doncha jimmy boy...fucking hypocrite

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/james-lankford/

[StrictlyRockers]

13. Lankford is a tool, but maybe the winds are shifting.

One can only hope that the the winds of change will blow hard on this blowhard. Soon.

[oberliner]

14. "I just vote with him over 90 percent of the time"