(01-27-2020 01:59 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-27-2020 12:12 PM)Fountains of Wayne Graham Wrote:  

(01-27-2020 11:51 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-24-2020 04:16 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(01-24-2020 02:45 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  The only reason for this 2020 impeachment is to try influence the 2020 election.

There will be a need for another quick impeachment before the midterms in 2022, again for political reasons. It's a dead solid perfectly sure thing if they win the Senate, scaling back to 90% if they don't. The entire Democratic party existence now is based on beating Trump. I don't know if the Dems will let it rest after two failed impeachments They might be willing to let it go because he cannot run again in 2024. Maybe then they will leave the selection of a President in the hands of the voters. But they seem to know nothing else to do.

AOC will be the Dem candidate in 2024. I wonder who the Republicans will run?

You are entitled to your opinion, but I disagree with every sentence you wrote. I'm entitled to my opinion and I don't see anything to gain from a back-and-forth about it. As I have said repeatedly, my opinion is that the conservatives on this board have a very poor understanding of how most democrats think, what they want, and how they work. IMHO, you do a lot better job explaining your own opinions that you do explaining what you think democrats want or how democrats think.

Bump, for those of us who have forgotten what is is all about.

support for my first sentence

The article you link to does not support the assertion that "The only reason for this 2020 impeachment is to try influence the 2020 election."

I guess you want to quibble over the word"only". I will replace it with "primary" if that make you unquibblanacious..

OR, you can explain to me what the Democrats expect to get out of a doomed impeachment.

Pelosi offers a clue

Still got quibbles. The article also does not support the assertion that "The primary reason for this 2020 impeachment is to try influence the 2020 election." It's just a few pundits discussing the senate election ramifications of impeachment. It does not offer support to the idea that it is either the only or the primary reason democrats have taken these actions.

In your second article, Pelosi explicitly lays out why she's seeking impeachment:

Quote: ...he is impeached forever because he used the office of the president to try to influence a foreign country for his personal and political benefit. In doing so, he undermined our national security, he was disloyal to his oath of office to protect the Constitution and he placed in jeopardy the integrity of our election.

No alternative explanation is offered by the article.