Posted on 04/21/2019 8:24:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Special counsel Robert Mueller's report poses a test for vulnerable Senate Republicans running for reelection, forcing them to decide how far to distance themselves from President Trump heading into 2020.
Mueller declined to pursue charges of conspiracy, illegal coordination or obstruction of justice, but much of his report reflects poorly on the president and reveals there are several more federal investigations that have yet to wrap up.
While House Democrats will need to decide how hard to go to attack Trump in the wake of the report and whether to pursue a politically charged impeachment process, Senate Republicans have to figure out how far to go to defend the president.
“I think Republicans should avoid doing a victory lap. The main thing here was, were the Russians involved in the Trump campaign? Beyond that, the president’s got to defend his own conduct,” said Vin Weber, a GOP strategist. “Republicans should be talking about other things like the economy.”
ADVERTISEMENT Asked what Republicans should do if they're asked directly about Trump’s conduct, Weber said, “That’s a tough one.”
“I would probably deflect a little bit by saying this: We’ve all gotten used to this being a different kind of president from a different kind of background who conducts himself differently than previous presidents, and beyond that it’s his problem, not mine,” he added.
Some expect Republicans to wait to see how the highly anticipated report plays with their constituents back home over the two-week holiday recess.
“Are Republicans privately unhappy with some of Trump’s actions in the report? Yes, of course. But the majority of Republicans are not going to go after the president on this because he has not been charged with a crime,” said another Republican strategist who requested anonymity.
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Another muffin burger that only helps President Trump.
I emailed grandma nancy and asked that she immediately begin impeachment proceedings.
I also requested that she make omar the head of the foreign relations committee and ocasio the head of the judiciary committee.
She cannot keep these great creatures under wraps
Easy for me as I live in a sparsely populated state.
I go into the polling booth and since I registered with no party affiliation I must vote for each race. But I well be in and out after casting one vote, at the top.
That’s what makes them RINOs.
Goal #15 in the list of 45 communist goals for the USA reads, “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.” That goal was well along by the time both “The Naked Communist” (1958, which contained that list in chapter 12) and “The Conscience of a Conservative” (1960, which described the RINO movement in action within the GOP) were published.
If you wish to replace any of the above Senators, than the local State apparatus/volunteers need to be finding people right now who will run against these incumbents.
The best bet you may have is finding someone to run against McSally, who has just won an election and beet a conservative in the Arizona RINO primary.
In Texas, the odds of replacing THREE term John Wayne Cornyn - who said in his last commercials he is just like one of us - are slim. Should the current Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patric run , than we could see an upset
Weber is the guy who recommended the Rinos like Paul Ryan and Mitch McTudle McConnell.
We the base will vote out any Rino Webber wants.
Any GOP that voted with the Dems against Trump’s emergency
declaration needs to go.
I gave money to Joni, and she is no Tea Party Conservative, to heck with her re-elect.
Time to get Trumpsters to primary the Rino deep state.
Get rid of Bushies like Vin Webber, Pee Pee Bush, etc.
You. can NEVER. count on Rand Paul. He is as loony and unreliable as was his father.
You can count on Murkowski to vote against, and Collins to make a big deal about her vote before sticking her finger up to determine the direction of the wind.
Be done with them all because they don’t represent the party or their voters. In the end they are Rinos and we want a conservative GOP.
Depressing. We’re supposed to shut up and sit quietly. The Left powerfully advances day by day. And Warren,Buttigieg,Nadler,Waters and AOC are anything but quiet.
Thanks for any post that refers to Goldwater’s book. I was 13 or 14 when Conscience of a Conservative came out. Now, apparently, Flake and the late McCain are the typical creeps in Goldwater’s state, now overrun by millennials, illegals and brainwashed leftists.
No offense, AZ FReepers, I live in an 80% liberal college city. We’re behind enemy lines.
I don’t think Rubio or Portman have anything to worry about.
I think Collins will win reelection.
Gardner, he might go down.
Collins is the best we can get in Maine. The rest are a real issue.
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Biden may try some across the aisles bipartisan sniffing and caressing. She’d better watch for that.
Go ahead Democrats, start impeachment process after the report completely exonerated Trump which we knew it would.
I hope the Democrats try it! Show the country how much yellow bile you're filled with for Trump and America. Go ahead Democrats, try it!
Nope!.It's worse then that!....It's a mental illness...It has a name.....
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
The facts are... we had the full force of the US Government under the Obama administration, atempting a COUP on “We the Peoples” power to choose our own destiny under our Constitution.....Think about that!!!!....They cant admit that..it would be chaos!....Hence.the elite elected officials try to make it less troublesome...became “We the People” cant handle the truth....(solving “their” CD illness BTW)
Mark Levin put it in a nutshell of what has happened...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/19/mark_levin_part_two_of_mueller_report_is_a_200_page_op-ed_that_should_never_have_been_written.html
Mark Levin is on fire on his show on FNC tonite.
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