How the Democrats Bungled Impeachment and Prevented Al Gore from Becoming a 10-Year President

With the Trump impeachment drama in full swing, it is useful to look back into history to see how past impeachment activity can impact the future.

"We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000."

The comments at American Thinker to this article are interesting. There is a person claiming to be the author of the piece claiming that he is NOT a NeverTrumper...but then there is nothing from AmericanThinker itself identifying him as the author...just his claim to be such.

So, if the author of this piece is REALLY interested in making his case that he is NOT a NeverTrumper, then he’ll have it pulled, or at least add some type of an update to the piece, since he certainly comes across as a NeverTrumper.

...and if the piece doesn’t change, then he’s more likely a high school kid having some fun with us.

There were two key Senate moments in Clinton's impeachment. The first and public one was Sen. Harkin(Dungheap-IA)'s question of Chief Justice Rehnquist receiving the answer that yes, the Senate essentially could make up any rules it wanted for its 'trial.' The second and still secret one was when the Senate went into secret session and came out with a 100-0 vote to throw out its pre-existing Presidential impeachment trial rules, crafted for Andrew Johnson and recently revised for hopeful use against Presidents Nixon and Reagan. And to substitute procedures that weren't much closer to a real trial than Schiff's are to an impeachment hearing. In spite of on paper the GOP having the votes to keep the old rules. The House Impeachment Managers literally had a roomful of evidence none of the Senate Democrats and few of the Senate Republicans chose to review and the 100-0 vote's consequence was that none of it could be introduced in the widely viewed 'trial' telecast to end run the MSM truth blockade. At the time I wasn't afraid of 'that idiot alGore.' A couple years of him running the show would have shown everyone just how incompetent he was. The only folks who thought otherwise were the Senate Republicans. The Democrats realized this, their solidity with the obviously guilty Clinton, was essentially a no confidence vote on Gore.

Fifteen Senators remain from that 100-0 secret vote to throw Clinton's impeachment: eight Republicans (Crapo, Enzi, Collins, Roberts, Inhofe, Shelby, McConnell, Grassley) and seven Democrats (Schumer, Reed, Durbin, Wyden, Murray, Feinstein, Leahy.) Then House Manager, now Senator, Lindsey Graham must also remember it, although he was locked out from it. If Schiff fails to self destruct enough to kill impeachment in the House McConnell needs to remember and re-use these precedents and we their voters need to remind them about them.

We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000.

Actually, the both the Republican and Demagogic Party elect narrowly escaped being dragged out of their gold-plated offices and getting beheaded for the cameras while the cameras rolled and the crowds cheered.

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