“He’s a weasel. He’d never vote to convict.”
He’d only vote to convict if the vote was guaranteed to fail.
Washington D.C. is full of politicians who want to vote for things, as long as they never happen.
And they want to vote against things, as long as they do.
Well, that's certainly true. I remember when NY City Democrat Rep Charlie Rangel sponsored a Bill to bring back the draft, and both times it came up for vote, he voted against it. You could always rely on Rangel to give you a laugh, whether it was voting against his own Bills, or not reporting rental income from his Santo Domingo villa, to living in two rent controlled apartments, having knocked through a wall to another apartment, in order to make one large rent-controlled apartment from two, dropping his divorce motion against his wife, because she would then be able to testify against him when he was under Federal investigation (that of course went nowhere) to finally, leaving his Rolls Royce parked in the Congressional underground parking garage for years, and never having paid any fees for leaving it there. Gotta love that white privilege that black Democrats seem to have access to.