[The Good Doctor]

They need a crime so they can say Trump obstructed investigation of a crime.

[iontheball]

A dangerous precedent setting indictment, impacting U.S. foreign operations for who knows how long. Every tom, dick, and harry will now be itching to put our foreign officers on trial overseas and we will be shocked when we hear what they do with the “guilty.”

[Slyfox]

So, she set to blaming the Russians "just in case."

[Bon mots]

[ronnie raygun]

Smoke screen to exonerate the criminal actions of the FBI Hillary, Obama and the DNC. “Sure what we were doing broke the law but we did it for national security reasons, we didn’t know where it was coming from” desperate like rats in a sinking ship

[Billyv]

Mueller is a Silly man!

[TigersEye]

I think this latest instance of “lawfare” just makes us look weak and foolish.

That is a ProgLib goal isn't it?

[joshua c]

What is the tab on Mueller’s millions for this legally embarrassing indictment?

I want my money back.

[dfwgator]

All that was missing was Graham Chapman interrupting....

[Seaplaner]

Okay, I do like Powerline, and I like the Powerline pundits.

That said, I differ in a major way that the apparent deceit and duplicity and indicting-off-the-point was in any way...

...silly.

Silly is a goofy clown at your kid's bday party.

Deceit is not, nor was it ever...

...silly.

Deceitful and deflecting and obfuscating abuse of the law and the trust of a nation is quite different from a mere being...

...silly.

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[spintreebob]

I have yet to hear of a single voter who actually saw those Russian ads before the election. There are statistics as to the number that saw them. But most people speculate that most views of the ads were by Bots, and not by voters.

Consider that most humans are not voters. So even if humans saw the ads, it was irrelevant to most of them.

In contrast, compare the June Townhall article by Wayne Allyn Root. That was forwarded heavily by one human Evangelical to 10 or 20 or 100 of the friends on the prayer list, or that other religious stuff is sent to. Almost every Evangelical family that received that Wayne Allyn Root article was moved by it. Without Root planting the seed, Ralph Reed would have never been able to reap the harvest.

We need to learn from this for 2018 and 2020. Each person who feels passionately about a candidate in the primary, or in November, can have big impact by making a personal appeal to friends and family.

An even bigger impact would be to make new friends and heal some of the rifts in the extended family so they too can be reached with the message.