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Politico Fantasizes About ‘Goldwater Moment’ Forcing Trump Resignation
Newsbusters ^ | January 23, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/23/2020 1:10:04 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Whenever liberals in the media approvingly cite conservative leaders, like Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, it’s to somehow contrast them as suddenly reasonable and sensible. Unlike the modern Republican Party.

So it’ not a shock that Politico is looking to Goldwater as a model for how the Senate GOP should respond to Donald Trump: In other words, tell him to resign. This is what the Arizona senator did with Richard Nixon in 1974. That way it would spare going through a Senate impeachment trial in which the all Democrat team of House managers would have to present their incredibly weak case.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clickbait; impeachment; watergate
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In reality we already had a "Nadler moment" which angered Republican senators so much that it pretty much guaranteed that even Murkowski would NOT vote to convict.
1 posted on 01/23/2020 1:10:04 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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If anybody tells Trump to resign he’s going to start turning red and shout “F.U.!”

That should be patently obvious to ANYONE who has been watching him in action.


2 posted on 01/23/2020 1:11:58 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Typical wishful thinking by Politico. The Republicans in the Senate are already tired of the non-stop droning by Schiff already....


3 posted on 01/23/2020 1:12:40 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Yeah basically calling them traitors probably wasn’t the best move.


4 posted on 01/23/2020 1:13:07 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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So President Trump, who knows he is innocent, is going to feel so remorseful and repentant over his non-crimes that he will hang his head down and resign?

Two chances for that: slim and none, and slim left town last Thursday.

Politico writers can go back to their mental ward. Time for their meds.


5 posted on 01/23/2020 1:13:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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The left has nothing left except fantasy.


6 posted on 01/23/2020 1:14:46 PM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: PJ-Comix

The propagandist media is unbiased.....says the “media”.


7 posted on 01/23/2020 1:15:13 PM PST by mikelets456
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Yeah basically calling them traitors probably wasn’t the best move.

Dems: Hey, we meant traitor in a nice way. You guys in the GOP are too sensitive. Lighten up.

8 posted on 01/23/2020 1:15:46 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Add these tyrants and totalitarians to The List

Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice


9 posted on 01/23/2020 1:15:54 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
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“Politico Fantasizes About ‘Goldwater Moment’ “

You may now exit 1974, and join the rest of us in the future.


10 posted on 01/23/2020 1:15:56 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: frank ballenger

lol

What pompous arrogant SOBs


11 posted on 01/23/2020 1:16:37 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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There’s a difference between fantasizing and mental masturbation.

Politico suffers from the latter.


12 posted on 01/23/2020 1:21:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (As a matter of fact, I DID only read the excerpt. OK, I intended to. Next time for sure.)
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"So it’ not a shock that Politico is looking to Goldwater as a model for how the Senate GOP should respond to Donald Trump: In other words, tell him to resign. "


13 posted on 01/23/2020 1:22:57 PM PST by plain talk
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The left has nothing left except fantasy.

The morning after he is re-elected is going to be horrific for them. They may just start jumping out of windows.


14 posted on 01/23/2020 1:24:03 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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On April 1, Pres. Trump should call a news conference to announce that, because of all the pressure on him, he’s announcing that he’s resigning the Presidency ... then pause and say, “Naw, just kidding, I’m here for another 5 years! Got ya, April Fools!!”


15 posted on 01/23/2020 1:25:45 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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Leftists are CONSTANTLY trying to replay Watergate.

It’s like the guy at the end of the bar reliving his greatest high school touchdown. But he’s 60 years old.

It’s embarrassing.


16 posted on 01/23/2020 1:26:12 PM PST by StoneRainbow68
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I think Mitt Romney should get the job.


17 posted on 01/23/2020 1:27:13 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: frank ballenger
So President Trump, who knows he is innocent, is going to feel so remorseful and repentant over his non-crimes that he will hang his head down and resign?

More likely, President Trump would kick them out of his office and then go on Twitter and tell everyone how chicken these Republicans are to come to him instead of defending him.

-PJ

18 posted on 01/23/2020 1:31:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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I think a lot of the shock of 2016 was that Trump winning wasn’t even on their radar. It could be that 2020 will see a Trump reelection as a done deal come election night but who knows for sure. Nevertheless if that happens the shock the next morning would be less IMHO.


19 posted on 01/23/2020 1:32:12 PM PST by xp38
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To: PJ-Comix

A few facts before “Politico” goes into heat over Trump impeachment. Breitbart News is stating that really no one is watching the farce blabber from “Pencil” Neck Democrat Adam Schiff and his Democrat, Busom “FAT PIG...OINK, OINK, FOOD Stuffer, Jerrold Nadler” on TV. But...not only the American people are saying “Ho-Hum, to the Democrat Scum” one must add the overwhelming majority of the Senators of both political that are prisoners in their own house...the Senate chamber!!!

Majority Leader McConnell...end this farce right, force the Democrats to vote up or down today..period, and move on to
taking care of the business od the American people.

FNC stinks again with Wallace, Baier and McCallum butt kissing the Democrat scum & vermin, Schiff & Nadler!!! However Perino, the Bush family butt kisser has been thrown under the bus today for some reason!!! FBN is OK, as usual, reporting just the facts...no opinions.

Note: Seven to eight Democrat Senators will not retain their seats in November. It’s the Democrats who have the re-election problem....the House Democrats will lose at least thirty sears..period!!!


20 posted on 01/23/2020 1:34:20 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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