McConnell’s impeachment blunder

[Counselor706]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a terrible mistake Tuesday night when he released word that he was in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump. This mistake goes well beyond a simple political miscalculation. It is the physical manifestation of Washington Republican hubris, wrapped in a fog of frightened groupthink.

Announced the eve of the House impeachment vote in the pages of The New York Times, McConnell’s plan reportedly rested on the belief that impeaching the outgoing president “will make it easier to purge Mr. Trump from the party.” Published just after the No. 3 House Republican, Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, announced her intention to vote for impeachment, for a moment it appeared the still-Republican Senate might end up joining with the Democrats after all.

By early afternoon the following day, however, the situation on the ground had changed. By the time the sun set in Washington, only 10 of 195 House Republicans — or about 5 percent — had joined with Democrats. Meanwhile, conservative members of the House had begun whipping support for Cheney’s resignation from leadership; and nervous Republican senators were publicly turning against impeachment. Retreating, McConnell declared he no longer knew which way he would vote, and in a statement suggested the Senate might not be able to take up the trial on time after all.

And just like that, McConnell (and Cheney’s) plan to purge the party of the new populist right appears to have unraveled. So how did the worst laid plans of mice and Mitch go so quickly to pieces?

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[KeithD]

This is a process, not an event. Your attempts to make it an event shows your concern. I'm happy to watch where it goes as a process.

 

[LLCox]

H A N G H E E M ! ! !

https://www.shutupandtakemymoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mitch-mcconnells-hand-of-death-toy-meme.jpg

 

[WillJ8787]

Link for the list

It's an interesting read and the opinion of one person.

We will see if it's correct ...I think we better wait for Mitch to vote and to see how the Senate votes.

It is an all out attack, by the left, the middle and many in the right, on those who attended and participated in an all out riot and insurection that led to multiple murders in the halls of Capitol Hill. For me, I could care less what hats they wore or what flags they carried or what shirts they had on...they assaulted the very foundations and center of freedom and liberty in the USA and spilled blood trying to stop THE MOST fundamental process that ensures our freedom.... counting one vote per person, certifying those votes as set forth by the will of THE PEOPLE.

I think Repubs better think long and hard....it's shocking that they actually have to do this...and so be it if they are Abit slow on the uptake.

If you want to go down as the party that supported an insurection that resulted in Murders, if you want to be know for supporting murders...

...IT iS YOUR CHOICE!

Good read though.

 

[Stratothrax]

More than 40 percent of the D.C. GOP has been elected since Trump was the Republican nominee.

So trump filled the gop with populist cultists? that's horrifying...

McConnell’s plan was a very, very stupid plan; the kind more typically floated by a Politico reporter whose only friends work for Pelosi than by a veteran senator with a reputation for strategically doing nothing in the face of Democratic pressure to make a move.

Mcconell's plan was not stupid, liberals I know understood that while they would be getting a conviction if mcconel came around, it would come with the caveat that the gop could transform into being more moderate and potentially win 2022 or 2024. There was even discussion of if it was even worth convicting trump if it gave the gop an out of the trump trap they had set for themselves.

Mconnel's plan was with forethought about what was best for the top and how they could regain power sometime in the next decade.

Keeping the trump stain is going to cause so many problems winning general elections for the right. Theres basically zero chance of them regaining georgia or the sunbelt if they do and that is a huge problem for them.

That federalist article writer is blithely politically illiterate.

 

[WillJ8787]

Yep....and McConnell is no dummy.

He is getting the Dems to do his dirty work for him. He loathes Trump and he also is a political master.

..that is how you stay in office for over three decades

vs.

The one term wonder.

 

[colddiesel]

McConnell has just been elected for 6 years - almost certainly his last term. So Trump and his trash can't lay a glove on him.

He knows that by 2024 with all the re-districting and voter clean-outs going on that the Democrats will need a popular majority of around 8 to 9 million to beat any reasonable GOP candidate.

Trump in 2024 would split the vote and let the Democrats in.

McConnell is the definition of asshole but is no mug. His objective is to ensure that the 2024 fix is well and truly embedded and that involves taking out the garbage (Trump) now.

 

[Rotadom]

That he didn't do it sooner.

 

[LupusDei]

For Republicans, allowing Trump to continue to be eligible to run for president is a recipe for disaster. Trump simply cannot win in a general election. The combination of events at the Capitol and his ejection from the major social media platforms is fatal.

But that doesn’t mean he can’t get the GOP nomination in 2024.

The way the Republican primary system is structured helps a candidate like Trump who has a dedicated base — even if it is the minority of the party. GOP primaries and caucuses award a disproportionate share of delegates to the top vote-getter and in some states the winner takes all. In 2020, Trump failed to get even one-third of the vote in South Carolina, but that was enough to lead the field and collect all 50 delegates.

In fact, Trump failed to get a majority of the Republican vote in any state primary or caucus until his home state of New York voted in April 19 (Ted Cruz had four majority results). Trump won ten states with less than 40 percent of the vote and two with less than 35 percent. In total, Trump failed to crack 40 percent in 22 states and caucuses and only won majorities in 16 states, with 9 of those majorities after everyone else dropped out. If no-hopers like Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Carly Fiorina had dropped out early, either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio were in a strong position to beat Trump.

If Trump holds on to just 35 percent of the Republican electorate and a crowded field chops up the anti-Trump vote, Trump might get the nomination — at the very least he draws out the nominating process and hurts the eventual nominee’s chances.

McConnell about to school Trump on political power for the last time