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Most Republican senators refused to rule out voting to remove President Donald Trump from office in an impeachment trial over the Ukraine scandal when contacted by the Daily Caller this week.
The Caller contacted all 53 Republican Senate offices Monday and Tuesday to ask if senators would rule out voting to remove Trump from office, and received a variety of responses–seven senators explicitly rejected impeachment in their statement.
So of the 46 Republican Senators who did not rule out impeachment full stop, could there be 20 to support it? No way to know for sure, but, again, it seemed unconscionable in the very recent past that there would even be that level of uncertainty among the GOP caucus.
Conservative commentator Steve Deace didn't share my optimistic appraisal of the situation.
I think the notion GOP senators will never eject Trump because it will alienate the GOP base is way overblown. Republicans like Lindsey Graham, who says he's now open to conviction, have made a career out of getting re-elected (even in deep red states) despite decades of betraying the GOP base.
These guys fund Planned Parenthood year after year. Nothing. Did 50 show votes to repeal Obamacare and then didn’t when they actually could. Nothing. Don’t secure the border. Nothing. Base still takes it and shows up.
So now if they betray them on Trump, suddenly the GOP base is gonna cease being their booty call? I don't buy it at all. Sure, they’ll be pissed, and then five minutes later some nut bag Leftist will make “but the Democrats” great again.
Short of angry clicks and memes, history says there will be no price for team GOP to pay where it counts most — at the ballot box.
I begrudgingly agree with Deace here. "Conservatism" in Washington these days has less to do with attempting to shrink government and more to accept growth but at a slower pace than what leftists desire.
If indeed the Senate votes to remove Trump, you're delusional if you believe D.C. suddenly becomes a bastion of integrity and decorum.
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I've always advised Republicans that there is no earthly work which will earn you even a modicum of decent treatment from Democrats and their media sycophants (or maybe it's the other way around), so you may as well do what is right. Then, if you can explain to the public why that is right, you have the best chance for re-election.
And I think the wrong conclusion is being drawn. The Republicans want to hold off judgment until the facts are in, even though we all pretty much know what they are, or in this case maybe are not. They are trying to be fair, something the Democrats know nothing about.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In practice:
1. Some things Donald Trump do are counterproductive at best.
2. Donald Trump has been wronged countless times since he came down the escalator in 2015.
Or, if you'd prefer:
1. Donald Trump is not the sort of person you'd want to be president in an ideal world.
2. We don't live in an ideal world and the current batch of Democrats are uniformly horrible people who should have no power, ever.
So what I am thinking is that the best thing for the country would be a dramatic electoral defeat for Democrats, all up and down the ticket. Since I don't think they have the capacity to be any loonier than they already are, and will lack the political power to do anything about it, a few Democrat heads will explode, but lots of good things will happen.
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