Conservative Commentator to Republicans: Get Off The Trump Train Because It's About To Derail

[babylonsister]

Posted on Sat, Oct 26th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Conservative Commentator to Republicans: Get Off The Trump Train Because It’s About To Derail


Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes had some advice for Republicans on Saturday: Get off the Trump train now, because it’s going to derail in the near future.

During a discussion on MSNBC, Sykes said the GOP’s impeachment defense strategy – attack the process, not the substance – is doomed to fail as the inquiry quickly escalates with public hearings.

“Republicans in the Senate have to realize that things are going to get a lot worse,” he said. “At some point, they’re going to have to confront the substance and the substance of this is a president who has abused his power and sold out the country.”

Link to tweet

Sykes said:

All of this is also a distraction, and I think that became clear from that federal judge’s ruling yesterday. But the story of Lindsey Graham is really quite exceptional when you think about his willingness to shamelessly switch all of his positions and, look, this is where the Republicans are at right now. They have to talk about the legitimacy of the process, focusing on that vote. That’s a fig leaf that’s going to be torn away very, very soon and this is what, you know, David talks about you know, the offramp for Republican. Republicans in the Senate have to realize that things are going to get a lot worse in terms of the evidence, in terms of the venue that’s going to be televised trial, in terms of the president’s behavior and they’re not going to be able to hide behind these questions about when does the House have a vote, public hearing, private hearings, because that process issue will be resolved at some point politically, so at some point they’re going to have to confront the substance and the substance of this is a president who has abused his power and sold out the country.

The Republican strategy is a ticking time bomb

The GOP’s entire impeachment strategy rests on two phony ideas: 1. Democrats need to take a formal vote to have an official impeachment inquiry; and 2. It’s taking place in complete secrecy.

Both of those arguments have already been torn apart.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/26/conservative-commentator-republicans-get-off-trump-train-about-to-derail.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. Hey Babylonsister!

[Nitram]

11. "...the substance of this is a president who has abused his power and sold out the country."

There. He said it.

[dchill]

2. Surely they've all been counseled about this before...

...and all along the way. A few may be too stupid to know what's really in the Mueller report, but not many.

They just firmly believe that the government will fail, and they'll own the wreckage.

[msongs]

3. Surely Wanda Sykes is telling them the same thing lol nt

[struggle4progress]

4. Ben Dewberry's final run

[struggle4progress]

5. Altoona train wreck

[NBachers]

10. Louvin Brothers - The Wreck on the Highway

[calimary]

6. They won't get the message, because they DON'T WANT TO get the message.

I suspect some of them know, in their heads, that this is a runaway train from Hell. But their heads are not what's driving them right now.

[Demovictory9]

7. k&r

[Demovictory9]

8. conservative I heard on radio: admitted Trump had "intention" to withhold $ to Ukraine for political

gain BUT. 1. why impeach so near election, let voters decide. 2. Ukraine got the money any way so intent is not impeachable.

The lefty commentator came back hard against those excuses.

[Progressive Jones]

9. Ukraine was already GRANTED the money by Congress, in the defense budget..

It was not Trump's money to withhold. That's part of the crime.
Presidents do not make these decisions.
Congress does.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Interesting. Maybe The fashionably pessimistic should read it

Instead of giving in to defeatism.

[Poiuyt]

13. Congresspeople will stick with trump as long as his poll numbers among republicans remains high

[smirkymonkey]

14. You would have thought they would have figured that out a while ago.

I really can't understand why people stick with him. He is going down and even if he doesn't right away, they are. There is no advantage to being loyal or aligned with him. I can only attribute it to blind stupidity.