Posted on 12/18/2019 6:04:51 PM PST by White MAGA Man
The Hawaii Democrat and presidential candidate, one of the last members of her party to come out in support of the impeachment inquiry, voted “present” for the two votes on the articles of impeachment against Trump and was nowhere to be found during four procedural votes on Wednesday morning or during the six hours of scheduled debate over the articles.
In a statement released after she voted “present” on both articles, Gabbard said that because she “could not in good conscience vote either yes or no... I am standing in the center and have decided to vote ‘Present.’”
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I’m just hear to read the posts from her FR boyfriends as entertainment.
This is actually a gutsy move by her. A ‘no’ would have been gutsier, but the easy, cowardly vote would have been a ‘yes.’ When Trump is reelected and if the GOP flips the House, hindsight will make it obvious that this stupid impeachment thing backfired in a big way. She can claim to be one of very few Dems who didn’t vote for it.
F her.
Exactly! He always voted ‘Present’ as a freshman senator and went right into the presidency.
I’m not impressed.
Not gutsy if she’s planning to run as an independent. Which could help or hurt us.
In a statement after the vote, Gabbard said she was “standing in the center” with her vote.
“I could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing,” she wrote in the statement.
“I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country,” she added.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/rep-tulsi-gabbard-votes-present-on-trump-impeachment/
Beat me to it.
It was the correct play. . for her.
NO!!
She’s playing a long game
She should catch it from the right as well. When you try to be in the middle of the road, you get run over.
Which she deserves. She's a pandering coward trying straddle the center. There is no center here. There is right and there is wrong. And she's afraid to commit to either. Those are not leadership qualities.
It is a time for choosing.
She is the only Democratic candidate with any chance of winning in 2020. The Ds should get behind her, but they won’t...because they have become radical fascists
Agree. Let the jackals have at her. It might be a learning experience.
Correct, Tulsi just proved today she is better than all other Democrats.
I did Nazi that coming from the Lefty bluecheck Twitter Nazis.
Weak. I would respect her more if she’d have taken a stand one way or another.
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