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“Johnny Ka-Suck is bucking for the VP slot on the Mittens Romney ticket for the Benedict Arnold Party.”

Likely that is the plan. Romney will be 74 on inauguration day 2021. If he wants to POTUS, he must be elected in 2020. To get the nomination, he either has to beat Trump in the primaries or orchestrate Trump’s removal from office. He knows he can’t win in the primaries. Hence he is working on the latter.

As to Kasich, he likely believes he has a good shot at VP if he joins forces with Romney. However, if Romney has any smarts he knows he will need a female or minority on his ticket to go against what is almost certainly to be a “diversity” Democrat ticket (Warren/Harris, Warren/Castro, Warren/Booker). The press and the Dems will beat hard the “privileged white male” theme against any two white male GOP ticket.

Of course, first Trump must go. Impeachment in the House is almost a certainty. No doubt Romney and the big GOP donors are working hard to push 20 GOP Senators into voting to convict. No doubt there are quiet threats to expose sexual liaisons, insider business deals. In addition board seats and lucrative lobbying assignments are being waved in front of any retiring GOP Senator, or any considering retirement in 2022 or 2024.

While many believe the GOP Senate will not vote to convict we should be mindful GOP Senators are just as corrupt as Democrat Senators. The entire city is a cesspool of insider deals and illicit sexual liaisons. Undoubtedly many Senators enjoyed sexual encounters which have been secretly recorded. Even if they haven’t the city is full of women and men who will testify to anything for the right price. Then there are crooked insider trading deals, offshore bank accounts, weekends on Epstein’s island, and embarrassing issues with family members these Senators don’t want revealed. If there are leverage points, you can be sure they will be exploited. The power brokers are intent on teaching the people a lesson and preventing any billionaire in the future from considering an independent run.

While many on this forum feel Trump is bulletproof, with the forces arrayed against him the odds of Trump surviving a Senate vote may already be less than 50/50. There remains the potential Trump could blow himself up with a comment between now and the Senate vote or other information come out about him or his family which the press and Democrats can exploit.

Remember there is an investigation of Trump going on by a DA in New York. No leaks yet in a city where people back stab every day. The absence of a leak about Trump’s businesses and associates suggests embarrassing or criminal information is being held to spring at the right moment. A compliant press will amplify any information that casts a bad light on Trump. Remember Paul Manafort is in prison for doing exactly what Tony Podesta did. Manafort was the press poster boy for corruption. Podesta’s crimes were covered up by the media.

Democrats allied with the compliant press are masters of releasing information at opportune times when it is too late for their opponent to respond. Remember the drunk driving information released about George W. Bush the weekend before the 2000 election? Expect damaging information to be held and released one or two days before the Senate vote. When the information (even if it is false) is released Romney and a group of GOP Senators to rush to the microphones, express their grave concern, and “sadly” announce they must vote to remove Trump. They will be heralded by the press and the Democrats. Enough Senators will then announce they are voting against Trump to ensure he is voted out of office. Trumps only choice then will be resigning before the vote or becoming the first US President to be removed from office.

Once Trump is gone, the media and Democrats will immediately work to bring down Pence, since Pelosi is next in line for succession. Beginning impeachment proceedings against Pence immediately after the take down Trump Senate vote makes it nearly impossible for him to mount an effective campaign for President. Romney will announce his candidacy as the bipartisan, moderate, reconciliation candidate. Like they did with McCain, the press will go easy on him until he has the nomination in hand.

The impeachment of Pence could be dragged out throughout the 2020 campaign season in an effort to show the voters no Republican should be trusted with the office, as well as to continue demoralizing a Republican base angry about Trump being removed.

Romney will run another lackluster campaign. He he is a behind the scenes backstabber, not a tough street fighter like Trump. It is unlikely he can win given many GOP voters will stay at home on election day in disgust.

Democrats always unite to win and play by no rules. Republicans have a history of selling out to the highest bidder or running for the hills when the battle becomes uncomfortable. Democrats crave the bare knuckles fight. Most Republican politicians run from a brawl in the streets.

Trump has surprised us all in his ability to survive. However, this time the deep state, the press, the Democrats, and Trumps enemies in the GOP are playing for keeps. The charges are weak and don’t rise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors”. The charges really don’t matter because those opposing him don’t care about the Constitution. This is 100% a political battle to the death and Trump seems (like Bill Clinton) intent on going the distance.

The magic number is 20.