Sometimes it is a drag being correct

[Dill]

(06-05-2019, 01:47 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Fred, apparently unique among the left leaning posters here, sees the danger.  Impeach has been the battle cry since Trump was elected.  No smoking gun has been found since.  While there is evidence of some wrongdoing, none of it is objectively sound beyond doubt.  If the Dems attempt to impeach they play right into Trump's hand that the "deep state" is trying to usurp the will of the people.  He would argue that one need only look at the calls for impeachment the moment he won the election.  The Dems will look like a tool of the "deep state" attempting to subvert the democratic process if they vote to impeach, a vote doomed to ultimate failure.

I was right about the whole 2016 election long before most others, trust me on this.  If the House impeaches Trump he's a shoo-in for a second term and Pelosi realizes this.

You saying the evidence of obstruction laid out in the Mueller Report is not "objectively sound"?  Why isn't ordering a subordinate to falsify the evidential record a "smoking gun"?

Trump pointing to "calls for impeachment" the moment he was elected would not move the dial in any direction. No doubt those who plan to vote for him in any case would get noisier (though some are confused that Barr's summary missed the details of obstruction, and they weren't reported on Fox either). But it's not the kind of argument that would sway the truly independent.  At least one Republican Congressman has broken ranks. The illiberal efforts to keep the rest in line will not be a particularly good optic for the party of Freedom who love to hand out pocket copies of the Constitution.

An impeachment that "fails" because Republicans put party before country doesn't hurt the Democrats. The majority of the country still disapproves of Trump.