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mfcorey1

(11,136 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:16 PM Sep 2019

We should keep our eyes on Pence, since the Senate did not object

to the release of the complaint. If the GOP has jumped the ship, it is because they are trying to maintain power through Pence. I am just speculating. Is a resignation looming?

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OnDoutside

(20,868 posts)
1. I agree, it is highly suspicious. Getting Pence in there, would at least give them a chance to
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:18 PM
Sep 2019

rewrite history, and airbrush Trump out of the GOP.

Andy823

(11,555 posts)
9. Good luck with that
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:31 PM
Sep 2019

trump has already left his stink all over the GOP, and it will take years to clean it up. Also trump will never let them forget, unless of course he runs off to mother Russia, and his pal Putin.

Since pence has also been talking with the Ukraine, he may be in trouble also.

OnDoutside

(20,868 posts)
12. It maybe all they have. My belief (borne out by the number of GOP retirements) is that they know
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 06:28 PM
Sep 2019

they are going to get a massive beating in 2020, for sure if Trump runs, but maybe they can mitigate the losses if they can get him out and replaced by Pence. Then they can blame the Dems for ousting Trump and then set a new narrative. There is no level they won't stoop to.

ffr

(23,447 posts)
10. And so too is McConnell. But I think McConnell's willing to give tRump up for tRump 2.0, Pence.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:43 PM
Sep 2019

Then he'll draw a line in the sand so that Pence cannot be convicted and repukes will maintain power in defiance of the law.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
5. I'm wondering if they actually have an eye on someone else.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:22 PM
Sep 2019

Again, just pure speculation. I think Pence will be too implicated by the time this is fully understood.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
6. Oh, yeah! That could also explain McConnell's latest action.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:22 PM
Sep 2019

Does the Senate Leader step forward as VP?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
7. I have many concerns about Pence...
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:26 PM
Sep 2019

He is not often in the limelight, but when he is...gee.

That's the downer. If and when Trump is gone, we then have a new problem, IMHO. That is we then have a theocratic, pathological, projecting liar on our hands.

However, he seems weaker and less capable at bullying than Trump, but what happens with his executive actions is going to be a concern as far as Christo-Fascism is concerned, etc. Pence is the poster boy of the Fundamentalist Right.

I would note that our foreign policy against woman's rights globally was not just dreamed up by this MisAdministration, it came from the Fundamentalist Right's marching orders which are a deep, dark hole of repression, etc.

Vinca

(54,330 posts)
8. The problem for the GOP is Pence, Barr and Pompeo are in as deep as the Orange Menace.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:28 PM
Sep 2019

Can I hear it for President Pelosi?

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
11. Along with MF45 The Cauldron of Contemptible Corruption - lock 'em up and throw away the key.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:49 PM
Sep 2019

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