Republicans Seize on Impeachment for Edge in 2018 Midterms

[rangerrebew]

Republicans Seize on Impeachment for Edge in 2018 Midterms
 

By Jonathan Martin
April 8, 2018

WASHINGTON — As Republican leaders scramble to stave off a Democratic wave or at least mitigate their party’s losses in November, a strategy is emerging on the right for how to energize conservatives and drive a wedge between the anti-Trump left and moderate voters: warn that Democrats will immediately move to impeach President Trump if they capture the House.

What began last year as blaring political hyperbole on the right — the stuff of bold-lettered direct mail fund-raising pitches from little-known groups warning of a looming American “coup” — is now steadily drifting into the main currents of the 2018 message for Republicans.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/us/politics/trump-impeachment-midterms.html

[rangerrebew]

This is from the NY Slimes, after all, so it's hard to tell whether this total fake news or based on a custodian overhearing someone talking.  But, from what we know of  Ryan and McConnell, it could be true.

[Free Vulcan]

As Republican leaders scramble to stave off a Democratic wave or at least mitigate their party’s losses in November...

The same NY Times that stated that Hillary had a 94% chance of being elected President?

[Night Hides Not]

Republicans Seize on Impeachment for Edge in 2018 Midterms
 

By Jonathan Martin
April 8, 2018

WASHINGTON — As Republican leaders scramble to stave off a Democratic wave or at least mitigate their party’s losses in November, a strategy is emerging on the right for how to energize conservatives and drive a wedge between the anti-Trump left and moderate voters: warn that Democrats will immediately move to impeach President Trump if they capture the House.

What began last year as blaring political hyperbole on the right — the stuff of bold-lettered direct mail fund-raising pitches from little-known groups warning of a looming American “coup” — is now steadily drifting into the main currents of the 2018 message for Republicans.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/us/politics/trump-impeachment-midterms.html

So what? Impeach all you want, Democrats...you'll be playing into Trump's re-election campaign. They'll never get the 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict. Cable news will love it, it will dominate news coverage for weeks, perhaps months.

GOP is the little boy who cried wolf.

[INVAR]

So once again the GOP thinks it's path to victory is "Vote for us or else"?

I guess when you are a party totally out of ideas and adopting the platform and agenda of the Democrats while governing just like Democrats by crafting trillion-dollar omnibus spending bills in secret and voting on them before anyone has had time to read them - the only way you can motivate people to vote for you is to say that the 'other guys are worse and will do this if you don't vote for us'.

That doesn't motivate anymore.  The Republican Party no longer gives anyone a reason to vote FOR them, only as a bulwark to vote AGAINST what they say is worse from the Democrats, WHILE governing like Democrats.

If 'vote for us or else' is the only platform they can run on - they truly need to be buried next to the Whigs.

[Concerned]

If the Democrats win the House, they’ll have subpoena power.  With that, it seems to me that impeachment will be inevitable (58 Dems already voted for impeachment).  Absent something terribly egregious (which is entirely possible with this President though), I still think a guilty verdict in the Senate will be unlikely. 

[Free Vulcan]

So once again the GOP thinks it's path to victory is "Vote for us or else"?

I guess when you are a party totally out of ideas and adopting the platform and agenda of the Democrats while governing just like Democrats by crafting trillion-dollar omnibus spending bills in secret and voting on them before anyone has had time to read them - the only way you can motivate people to vote for you is to say that the 'other guys are worse and will do this if you don't vote for us'.

That doesn't motivate anymore.  The Republican Party no longer gives anyone a reason to vote FOR them, only as a bulwark to vote AGAINST what they say is worse from the Democrats, WHILE governing like Democrats.

If 'vote for us or else' is the only platform they can run on - they truly need to be buried next to the Whigs.

They've already forgotten 2006, the year the GOP lost Congress not because the Dems beat them, but because they made their own base stay home due to their not doing much of anything conservative.

[INVAR]

They've already forgotten 2006, the year the GOP lost Congress not because the Dems beat them, but because they made their own base stay home due to their not doing much of anything conservative.

Exactly.  2018 will be Deja Vu 2006 all over again.

Deservedly so.

And, I for one will never trust the Republican party with power ever again.  They are as corrupt and Statist as the Democrats, and it is time for Conservatives to put their energies and support into something new, outside DC.