House Dems must realize their specious impeachment articles will fail to convict Trump in the Republican Senate......
Yet they cling to a vain hope that impeachment alone is enough to seriously damage Trump’s reelection bid.
Democrats, as well as some Republicans, cannot accept a Trump presidency, gained in a legitimate election.
Dems have been working assiduously for three years to find some means to impeach and remove Trump.
Even as peripatetic Nanzi hopscotched all over TV denying impeachment was in the offing.
The airheaded Dems promulgated:
<><> the myth of “Russian collusion”... ultimately blown out of the water,
<><> the equally unfounded Ukrainian “quid pro quo” charge.
<><> the sideshow of withholding the articles from the Senate,
<><> demanding a fair trial FOR THEMSELVES,
<><> Dems stupidity oblivious that in America fair trials are guaranteed the accused NOT THE accuser.
Now Dems slipped in an addition joker in their already stacked impeachment deck, namely the remote possibility
predicated on a long-ago law, not allowing Trump to take office even if he is reelected. It is indeed a
crass partisan maneuver that would cause the Founders to spin in their graves.
I say go for it, dummy Dems......but you ignore the presence of Mitch McConnell at your peril.
I think such behavior would cause the Founders to build many gallows and purchase rope.
Trey Gowdy said something on Hannity last night that made a lot of sense:
The Democrats know Trump will not be removed, and that as incumbent in a strong economy he will almost certainly be re-elected.
Their “impeachment” strategy has always been about winning control of the Senate. The idea is that when the GOP votes along party lines to defend the President, a number of blue state Republican senators facing re-election in 2020 will be vulnerable as a result.
If this is their game, they will try to engineer as many procedural votes as possible, in order to reinforce the talking point that these Republican senators repeatedly betrayed their constituents by voting in lockstep with their party, rather than in the best interests of the people they represent.
I would be interested to hear what other FReepers think about this theory - as I am not that savvy regarding how the 2020 senate races are shaping up, or what the coattails effect is likely to be, etc..