Yes, he stood up for the President in what was known, to EVERYONE, a sham impeachment. I’ll give him credit for that. And he was very vocal in his support for the President, I also give him that. But, Gowdy was great and we all thought that he could have been someone, but he turned out to be nothing but an Establishment Hack for Ryan, et al.
This is a different animal.
The UNIPARTY, Deep State, GOPe, Democrats, Left, current and former leadership in all the agencies that took part in the attempted coup, clearly HATED and are/were scared of what Grennell has been doing. In the words of Sen Angus King: “If we vote down Ratcliffe, we’re stuck with Grenell.”
*The SSCI hates Grennel with the ferocity of a thousand supernovas because Grenell doesn’t give a f**k about their swamp life; and Grenell smacks them around publicly on Twitter whenever the SSCI dispatches the orcs from the deep swamp intelligence apparatus. Every time the orcs poke their heads out of the labyrinth Grenell smacks them with a billion mega-watt sunlight hammer. They shriek and retreat to the dungeon.*
As a result President Trump has pinned the SSCI into the corner of their cave. If the SSCI rejects Ratcliffe, they are stuck with Grenell; and Ric really is a guy who doesn’t give a f**k about the SSCI’s indulgent self-interest and thirst for power.
So, only time will tell if Ratcliffe is going to be as effective as Grennell has been in the short time that he’s been there.
I hope so.