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Impeachment: After Trump Acquittal, What's Next?
Townhall ^ | 02/04/2020 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 02/04/2020 7:45:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Just because the Senate is about to acquit President Trump of charges Republicans believed never rose to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors," don't think Democrats will raise the white flag of surrender. They (and their media allies) have only just begun.

Next is a campaign to defeat enough of the 23 Republican senators up for re-election and, if possible (it doesn't look possible, but this is February), keep President Trump from winning re-election.

Democrats have virtually no issues on which to run, except the promise of free stuff -- from Elizabeth Warren's student loan forgiveness plan, which does nothing for those who struggled to pay off their student loans without assistance, to Bernie Sanders' free Medicare for All.

A new Gallup poll released last week shows how difficult it will be for Democrats.

According to Gallup, 41 percent of Americans "are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S." That's the highest satisfaction level in 15 years. Seventy-two percent of Republicans are satisfied, a number likely to grow if the economy remains strong and there is stability in international affairs. Only 14 percent of Democrats are satisfied. That is likely, in part, because President Trump is racking up success after success without any cooperation from the other party. If Democrats had cooperated on at least some issues (other than the new trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico) they might have been able to legitimately claim some credit, but their opposition to all things Trump and their attempts to undo the results of the 2016 election leaves them out in the political cold.

What is most remarkable about this Gallup poll is that it was taken in the middle of the Senate impeachment trial and in the face of some of the most hostile media coverage any president has ever had to endure in modern times.

According to the conservative Media Research Center, which monitors the broadcast network's evening news programs, "... evening news coverage of the opening arguments of both sides, found ABC, CBS, and NBC did not live up to the standard they demanded of Republicans. They gave Democrats double the airtime and showered their arguments with mostly praise, while expressing only criticism of the President's legal team."

The New York Times and Washington Post have cast aside any cloak of fairness by going anti-Trump nonstop. Their news coverage, editorials and virtually all of their columnists are constantly looking for new ways to express opposition to and hatred of the president. One advantage for readers is that it is easier to get through those papers because they have become predictable and tiresome.

Democrats may feel good about this as they keep company with their media fellow travelers, but President Trump is newly empowered to take his case for four more years of prosperity and relative peace to the public. Every Democrat running for president would raise taxes, giving more money to Washington, which cannot constrain its spending lust under either party. As taxes rise, so would unemployment because many businesses would no longer be able to afford workers they hired during the economic boom.

Look for more investigations -- perhaps additional allegations and articles of impeachment -- and more "leaks" from former Trump staffers between now and the election. The only way to stop this is for Republicans to regain a House majority and maintain their majority in the Senate.

Barring an unforeseeable disaster (always a possibility), Trump is positioned to win re-election, perhaps in a landslide, which will send the left and most of the media into another deep depression.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acquittal; impeachment; trump
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1 posted on 02/04/2020 7:45:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Next? More of the same from the Dems.


2 posted on 02/04/2020 7:46:12 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The geniuses of the democrap party are planning their next move.

3 posted on 02/04/2020 7:49:44 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: laplata

They want to keep digging the hole deeper and deeper.


4 posted on 02/04/2020 7:50:07 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: SeekAndFind

I think President Trump should have purged the Executive Branch of all potential Obama supporters in Jan 2017. But he didn’t.

When he wins his second term, he certainly should carry out that purge. They are, at this point, hold-overs from the TRUMP administration, and no one should question the decision to remove them at this point.


5 posted on 02/04/2020 7:52:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Barring an unforeseeable disaster (always a possibility)”

It was necessary to say this?


6 posted on 02/04/2020 7:54:20 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: SeekAndFind

I know a guy who ran and lost running as a Republican for the Virginia State Senate.

He got 43,000 votes. He told me “if I had known I would get that many votes on Monday I would have been packing my bags for Richmond.”

He lost.

He says reason is that George Soros dropped $12 million into his race which turned out voters from the woodwork who had never voted for anything before in their lives.

That is what the Democrats are going to be trying to replicate. Draw enough of their lazy, useless voters off the couch and out to the polls to overwhelm us. They managed to do it once with Obamamania. This time they’ll try incredible promises of Free Stuff and loads of dark money.


7 posted on 02/04/2020 7:54:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: CondorFlight

We all need to pray for the President.


8 posted on 02/04/2020 7:56:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course they will attempt another coup because Republicans refuse to do anything about it. I am assuming next they will go after the tax returns and claim he misrepresented line 14 on a tax return from 20 years ago ergo he must be impeached.


9 posted on 02/04/2020 7:59:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: SeekAndFind

The SENATE is key. 4 additional years of appointing Conservative Judges(With 1 or 2 more SCOTUS picks) will be Trump’s greatest legacy.


10 posted on 02/04/2020 8:00:46 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“turned out voters from the woodwork”

Did they actually turn out voters or did they “harvest” them?


11 posted on 02/04/2020 8:02:04 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: laplata

This should distract the media for the next 10 months.


12 posted on 02/04/2020 8:09:06 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: shelterguy

“They want to keep digging the hole deeper and deeper”.

You’re right.

The Dems continue to show their true, very ugly colors, and normal, decent and good people don’t like what they’re seeing.

I can’t understand why people still consider themselves democrats. They should be ashamed.


13 posted on 02/04/2020 8:22:59 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

House continues their investigation shenanigans and dos NO work for the people, Dems lose house in November if GOP runs a good bunch of campaigns.


14 posted on 02/04/2020 8:24:19 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ClearCase_guy

“We all need to pray for the President”.

Absolutely! We can put nothing past these evil bastards.


15 posted on 02/04/2020 8:24:36 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s next? ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. The Demonrats have plenty of Monarch-mind-controlled, violent punks in their ranks who are willing to spend their lives to assassinate the 45th President of the United States. In fact, given some recent news items (Mar a Lago), there have already been attempts.


16 posted on 02/04/2020 8:24:59 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: CondorFlight

Are you in denial?


17 posted on 02/04/2020 8:26:10 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: cnsmom

Yes.


18 posted on 02/04/2020 8:27:41 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump’s acquittal will be played as purely partisan by the media saying that failing to call more witnesses was a ploy to obstruct the truth about the Ukraine call. As Pelosi predicted Trump will in the minds of Democrats will be impeached for all time nor will there ever be any vindication in the media from an acquittal. The impeachment, however, has been a monumental fizzle for Democrats and has just strengthened Trump’s base and moved many moderates into the Trump camp. Trump will almost assuredly be re-elected by a wide margin.


19 posted on 02/04/2020 8:29:31 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He says reason is that George Soros dropped $12 million into his race which turned out voters from the woodwork who had never voted for anything before in their lives.

That is what the Democrats are going to be trying to replicate. Draw enough of their lazy, useless voters off the couch and out to the polls to overwhelm us. They managed to do it once with Obamamania. This time they’ll try incredible promises of Free Stuff and loads of dark money.


They don’t even need to get off the couch, they can all vote absentee. And since they signed them up, they can go over and collect the ballot, (finished or unfinished) and submit them.

That is the game plan

I walked by the Dimm tent at the county fair last year, they were registering people to vote and signing them up for absentee ballots and the Dimms were going to go around and collect them so they don’t even need to mail them back....

Why would they do that? To make sure you voted for the right people of course? And if you didn’t they would either change it or toss it I am sure...

That is the fraud.

Now we just need to counter it with a better GOTV then they do.


20 posted on 02/04/2020 8:32:44 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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