Posted on 02/10/2021 5:26:25 AM PST by EyesOfTX
If you’re going to shoot at the king, you better make sure you kill him. – The RINO wing of the Republican Party was gleeful just a month ago with the thought that the impeachment scam in which they were coordinating with the Democrats would do away with Donald Trump’s political career once and for all. Mitch McConnell was only too happy to voice his support for this most recent chapter in the DC Swamp’s never-ending coup against the former President, and 11 RINOs in the House volunteered to have their names forever stamped onto the sham as a seal of “bipartisan” approval.
When the question of proceeding with an impeachment trial came before the Senate, the Usual Suspects of the RINO caucus there threw in with their Democrat friends in a 55-45 vote to proceed. When a procedural vote on the question of the constitutionality of using the impeachment process – designed to remove current officeholders from office – against a man no longer in office came before the Senate yesterday, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy joined with those Usual Suspects to support the effort.
Hilariously, Cassidy explained his vote to reporters as not being based on any constitutional considerations at all, but based on the fact that he thought the Democrat House impeachment pushers dealt their verbal crank better than the President’s lawyers dealt theirs.
“House managers were focused, they were organized,” and “made a compelling argument,” Cassidy said after the vote. In contrast, he added, “President Trump’s team were disorganized. They did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand and when they talked about it, they kind of glided over, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments.”
My goodness, how dimwitted must this man be? Someone should inform the doofus Senator that this is not a criminal trial, nor is it a high school debating class. The question of constitutionality has literally nothing to do with the political rhetoric coming from a bunch of partisan hacks from the opposite chamber of congress. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, certainly more of a constitutional scholar than freaking Jamie Raskin, already symbolically told everyone his view of the appropriateness of this sham proceeding by refusing to show up to preside over it.
The beauty part of all of this is that the RINO glee of a month ago is now giving way to a sense of dread that their betrayal of their President, party and voters will ultimately lead to Donald Trump gaining a stronger position within the GOP than he already had before January 6 ever happened.
That is the topic of a piece this at the reliable DC Swamp megaphone, Politico, titled “Trump plans a reemergence and some retribution after impeachment,” and it is glorious.
“The story from Nov. 3 on has been an astonishing display of loyalty to Trump and the strength of supporters in the party,” said anti-Trump conservative Bill Kristol. “If you had said [Trump] would fail to recognize the election returns, keep that up, put pressure on secretaries of state and pressure his own vice president to do something unconstitutional, try to call a mob to Washington on Jan. 6 — it’s pretty astonishing and it’s incredible that people kept with him at each step.”
Kristol, of course, is the titular leader of the anti-Trump RINO conference in the DC Swamp, a washed-up hack who’s had to make a living publishing newsletters and parroting Democrat talking points for CNN since Trump destroyed his former magazine operation, the Weekly Standard. He and others like him – such as the pedophile-supporting clowns at the Lincoln Project – are now in a panic mode as it becomes increasingly obvious that this impeachment scam is doomed to embarrassing failure, like all of the other coup-related scams the Swamp tossed at President Trump during his four years in office.
More from the Politico piece:
Already, Trump aides contend, the impeachment process has proved beneficial to the ex-president — exposing disloyalty within the party’s ranks and igniting grassroots backlash against Republicans who have attempted to nudge the GOP base away from Trump. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse spent last week fending off constituent criticisms and censures from state party officials after he compared Trumpism to “a civic cancer for the nation.” And Trump’s allies believe the ex-president’s impending impeachment trial will further illuminate who the turncoats are.
“It’s going to help expose more bad apples that he can primary if any senators vote to convict,” added the former campaign official.
While ensconced at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Trump has remained in touch with political allies and advisers. But he has intentionally kept a low profile, something that will likely continue this week. A former aide suggested Trump try to demonstrate his indifference to it all by spending much of impeachment playing golf, “as a way of sort of saying, ‘Who cares?’”
Aides expect that to change once the trial wraps up though, with Trump gradually reemerging in public and turning his attention toward seeking revenge against Republicans who, he believes, crossed him after he left office.
The format in which he pursues retribution is less clear. The president is still considering what mediums he should use as he remains barred from Twitter and has lost influential media allies like former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, whose show was abruptly canceled last Friday.
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What the DC Swamp UniParty obviously still hasn’t figured out is that Trump voters are different than the voters who blindly supported previous GOP presidents and presidential candidates. Thanks in large part to the Swamp’s unending efforts to overturn the 2016 election with their never-ending coup, Trump voters have become fully aware of the UniParty’s methods and goals, and will never again be swayed by the Kabuki Theater scams it puts on for public consumption.
That propaganda model is, put simply, broken and irreparable.
Once this latest scam has played itself out, Trump will have a momentous choice to make about where to take his army of 74 million voters. He can either re-assume his place as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, or he can utterly destroy the Republican Party by creating a third part of his own.
That is the real political reality that RINOs are only now waking up to: The future of their nominal party is literally in the hands of the man they so detest and believed they were going to damage with their support of this sham impeachment.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich captures it perfectly: “I have no idea what they think they’re going to accomplish,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a key Trump ally. “The next election is in ‘22 and doesn’t involve Trump. What they’re doing is wasting their time.”
What they’re also doing is making Trump even stronger than he was before.
Glorious.
That is all.
Are these the same Dumbocraps who have been cheering on the burning of cities and beating MAGA people for the last 5 years?
Not watching the shampeachment. Keeping track of backstabbing GOP. President Trump is the winner.
Same here
My wife and I record Jeopardy! every morning at 11:30 AM (CST) on the local ABC station in order to watch it when I get home. During the first impeachment, the show was frequently pre-empted. Yesterday, all thaty remained of the show was the Final Jeopardy question, but they cut away to the shampeachment before the end of the show. Instead of seeing who won, I got to see Stephanopoloser.
Unless Derp State kills him, he’s going to go from strength to strength.
Out of all of this, the biggest turncoat, DS mastermind, Uniparty operative has been that slithering POS Barr.
Acquittal and total exoneration.
That will be the result of the impeachment trial.
Trump signs are still up all over the country. People are watching this disgrace in Washington.
I’m still flying my Trump flag. The Stars and Stripes is at half mast.
I live on the NY/PA. state line in Western NY. and Trump flags are everywhere.
People are still wearing Trump hats.
If the GOP leaders took Rush seriously, they would NOT be surprised at all as to their almost-assured destruction of the their beloved scam.
Rush put it very simply at the beginning of Trump’s rise:
“The media didn’t create Trump, so the media CANNOT destroy Trump”
The same is true for the GOP, they didn’t create Trump and the idea that they could ever destroy Trump will likely go down as the biggest political mistake in our lifetimes, possibly in US history.
As this point, their only option is to hope that Trump gets indicted/arrested by their Democrat friends...but that may not necessarily go according to plan, particularly if Trump’s supporters get wind of it.
I agree - this will only make President Trump stronger.
I’ve talked with hundreds of Trump voters and haven’t found a single one who is anything but pissed as hell over what has happened over the last few months - the last four years, really.
If the anti-Trump forces hoped to erase President Trump from history and snuff out his political movement, the smart play would have been to at least pretend to show some respect for the 75 million who voted for him.
By acting like grownups and being somewhat gracious, they would have put Trump and his supporters in the position of having to show some grace in return, or appear like sore losers. That is what the Democrats should have done.
But they have done the exact opposite. This January 6th “insurrection” hoax, the razor wire fence around the capital, and the farcical impeachment of a man who has already left office... is a deep insult to 75 million Americans that will never be forgotten.
And here I thought politics was about trying to win people over.
“””The RINO wing of the Republican Party was gleeful just a month ago with the thought that the impeachment scam in which they were coordinating with the Democrats”””
Meanwhile, the GOP Diehards on Free Republic are still wondering why conservatives are upset with the Republican Party.
Throughout the 2020 Election Cycle the RINO’s worked with the Democrats to fraudulently subvert the 2020 Election on Nov 3.
A few examples of the Republican subversion:
1. Act 77 in PA
2. March 2020 Settlement Agreement in GA
3. Refusal by Maricopa County to open the books.
I always wondered why the Republicans fund, support and include these traitors to the party. It is ok if you don’t want to support your party. But leave or join the other side. It seems this is the Dems way of inflitrating the enemy and then they win. If I can see it, why can’t they?
As Patriots the traitors names should be noted and mentioned in every article, discussion or mention of Repubs. One of Alinsky’s rules. It seems to work.
“””You can wave your handkerchief at the hurricane, but Trump will be convicted”””
I am trending towards agreeing with you. At this point I would say the probability of 17 RINO Senators joining with 50 Democrats is 50%.
I’d like to see those RINOs primaried - like Jeff Sessions.
Thing is, we can’t vote our way out of rigged elections.
Yeah, it was based on a midnight phone call.
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