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4 Reasons McConnell’s Terrible Impeachment Blunder Is Doomed To Failure
The Federalist ^ | 01/14/2021 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 01/14/2021 10:37:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: brownsfan
The GOPe hates us more than the Democrats hate us.

Likely true, although it is hard to imagine receiving more intense hate than we get from the Democrats, the party of peace and love and butterflies and rainbows and unicorns.

In the history of Christianity I think you will often find greater hostility directed against heretics (who had the "wrong" version of Christianity) than against infidels (who did not profess to be Christian at all). Same principle.

21 posted on 01/14/2021 11:03:33 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Jack Posobiec on Twit says Mitch now using impeachment to blackmail Trump over pardons for Assange, Snowden & Ulbricht.

GOP in meltdown.


22 posted on 01/14/2021 11:04:51 AM PST by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: Alberta's Child

RE: I think perhaps it’s the other way around. I see two possible alternative scenarios:

Either way, the impeachment was pointless political posturing. If the intent was to remove the President from office, then it achieved nothing.

If the intent was to SHAME the President, then it simply backfires. Most people who see (other than the TDS Democrats) this know that it is a unprincipled sham and it is the Democrats and Pelosi who ended up looking like the lawless, vindictive, totalitarian asses they are, and it will go down in history as such.


23 posted on 01/14/2021 11:05:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Rinos” typically survive in politics because the voters see them as better than the Dem alternative.

For McConnell, Graham, Romney, and the congressmen who voted to impeach, I don’t think that holds true anymore. Not that the rank and file will vote Dem, but they simply won’t show up on election day. Why vote for Graham? Why vote for McConnell? Why vote for any of these dirtbags?


24 posted on 01/14/2021 11:06:23 AM PST by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

Fake news. Didn’t happen.


25 posted on 01/14/2021 11:06:39 AM PST by familyop
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To: Tea Drinker

RE: Mitch now using impeachment to blackmail Trump over pardons for Assange, Snowden & Ulbricht.

OK, Trump Pardons then before 12 Noon January 20, what’s Mitch gonna do? You can’t remove a private citizen from an office he no longer holds.


26 posted on 01/14/2021 11:06:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This didn’t age well. The author should have known better. I did. The minute these stories surfaced, I thought “this does not sound like something McConnell would say or do. Where did they get this?”

And sure enough, it was the damned New York Times with another one of its patented “no sources, no quotes” Narrative Eruptions. How many times are we supposed to fall for this before we ‘get it’ that the NYT makes up total crap and “reports” it as a news story?


27 posted on 01/14/2021 11:07:21 AM PST by Nick Danger (WalMart sells everything Amazon does. Stop funding the WaPo and the Parler-killers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Chuckles will be in control of the senate. Libs just make up their own laws as they go and nobody stops them. There will be all sorts of weirdness.


28 posted on 01/14/2021 11:10:25 AM PST by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: Alberta's Child
Hagar the Horrible

LOL! Thanks for that!

Have you seen this video at the following link: What’s the floor plan? — New ‘suspicious video’ emerges from Capitol siege…

These are people wearing tear gas masks, which is not standard issue at a Trump rally. Also the bullhorn, which a woman uses through the broken window to instruct the intruders on how to "take this building."

There is a second video further down of the same "bullhorn" woman in a pink hat using a battering ram to bash in that window.

These are not the Hagar crew.

Here is the FR discussion thread for the videos.

-PJ

29 posted on 01/14/2021 11:11:32 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Spot on!


30 posted on 01/14/2021 11:17:05 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: brownsfan
The GOPe hates us more than the Democrats hate us.

That's true and they made it irrefutably clear since President Trump took office.

31 posted on 01/14/2021 11:24:43 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: DownInFlames

Dershowitz says no


32 posted on 01/14/2021 11:24:55 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: jstolzen

Correct. The establishment republicans want their party back so they can continue appeasing the dems and getting filthy rich.


33 posted on 01/14/2021 11:26:21 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: DownInFlames

btw, this morning Dershowitz said the dems violated the constitution six times during the impeachment trial.


34 posted on 01/14/2021 11:28:06 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Likely true, although it is hard to imagine receiving more intense hate than we get from the Democrats, the party of peace and love and butterflies and rainbows and unicorns.

Hating an enemy force is one thing. Hating someone who you are forced to grovel to, lie to, and beg from all the while thinking they are useless morons unworthy of you creates a whole next level of hate.

35 posted on 01/14/2021 11:37:17 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: T.B. Yoits
"The GOPe hates us more than the Democrats hate us."

Yes.

And they hate America as much as the Democrats do.

But it doesn't matter, because the GOP is dead.

36 posted on 01/14/2021 11:37:24 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If the intent was to remove the President from office, then it achieved nothing.

Or maybe the intent was to simply let the Republican Party destroy itself.

Nancy Pelosi just rolled a bunch of hand grenades into the GOP, knowing full well that a bunch of morons like Lizard Cheney and that Kinzinger dope would fall all over themselves to pull the pins out.

37 posted on 01/14/2021 11:47:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: brownsfan

Yep. Remember that when they come begging for votes and money.

L


38 posted on 01/14/2021 11:50:33 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“to purge the party of the new populist right appears to have unraveled.”

There is not a NEW populist right in the party. 75% of Republicans have wanted secure borders, fixing our insane China policy, and been opposed to global control of the US for decades.

What is new is that Trump is the first Republican leader who actually agreed with 75% of Republicans and did something about it. The rest of them have been running a Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football scam on R voters for decades.

Romney, Graham, Cheney et al. just want to go back to the good old days when they could say one thing when running for office and then laugh at their supporters when they got to Washington and did the exact opposite, over and over.

Hence, the purge.


39 posted on 01/14/2021 12:47:22 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump’s new party won’t be a third party, it will be a 2nd, MAGA vs. UniParty.


40 posted on 01/14/2021 1:07:02 PM PST by myerson (Viva Trump!)
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