Any Republican senator outside a Blue State (and there aren’t many in Blue States) could forget about reelection because the base of the Party would be as furious as I am at things like the Senate “Intelligence” Committee which supposedly has a “Republican” Chairman named Richard Burr who looks, talks and acts like the Democrat Mark Warner.
“Mr. Warner in Dick Burr’s shoes, wearin’ his disguise”.
Trump is not going to be removed from office over this nonsense... and the Democrats are going to face a slaughter in 2020 if they are adamant about going forward with it.
Exactly. If any one of those bastards voted to convict, I'd donate to their opposition when they run for reelection. I don't care if their opposition is a AOC look-alike.
EXCERPT-—Cohen was charged with violating FEC laws. which limit individual donations to $2,700 per election. Why are the hush money payments Cohen arranged considered illegal campaign contributions? Because he admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump’s election chances, the $150,000 given to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the summer and early fall of 2016 and the $130,000 that went to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late October 2016 are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign. They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation.
SOURCE—— By Bill Theobald, USA TODAY, Dec 14, 1918 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-hush-money-michael-cohen-paid-stormy-daniels-was-an-illegal-campaign-donation/ar-BBQWBNp
BACKSTORY -— when the sitting president, Bill Clinton, was mired in the lewinsky sex mess,
he and his wife liberally used tax dollars to protect his (and her) election chances.
ITEM----Bill’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year cushy government job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed ......but before she filed...... a falsified affidavit saying she had NOT had sex with the president.
ITEM----Clinton then had another pal, his Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, personally visit Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a government job to shut her up.
They even went so far as to have Lewinsky give Linda Tripp instructions
coaching Linda on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter to save Clinton’s presidency....
and Hillary’s ambitions. tax-paid govt workers including then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous....now at ABC-TV.
The tax-paid office operated for eight long years.....and did nothing but shoot down, demean, defame and
lacerate any woman who dared surface about Bill’s sexual activities.
These expenditures of tax dollars saved Bill’s presidency, got Hillary elected to the US Senate...... and gave Hillary prominence to launch the rest of her political ambitions.
The FEC uttered not a word.
[Any Republican senator outside a Blue State (and there aren’t many in Blue States) could forget about reelection]
If such a thing were to happen, if so many Republican senators voted to impeach Trump over these charges, it would mark the end of our government. No longer would would those who voted for Trump believe that our system represented them. No longer would we be willing to suspend disbelief and behave as of this were a government of the people and for the people. Nothing could restore our trust after that.
Don’t kid yourself, Rubio, McCain, Murkowsky and Hoeven were re-elected after they voted for amnesty in 2013.
Graham and Alexander also voted for amnesty in 2013, 2006 and 2007 and will probably be re-elected.
There are plenty of Bush League Republicans who would love to get rid of Trump so they can get back to importing cheap labor.