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So, what's the downside???
Source: Yahoo News
Link: https://news.yahoo.com/rand-paul-warns-one-third-175520035.html
Zachary Evans
Sat, January 16, 2021, 12:55 PM
Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) warned Friday that one third of Republican voters could leave the party if GOP senators vote in impeachment proceedings to convict President Trump. Paul made the comments in an interview on Fox Newss The Ingraham Angle.
The senators remarks come amid an increasing divide between congressional Republicans who oppose impeaching the president, and a smaller number who support the measure following the riots at the Capitol on January 6. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is reportedly hopeful that Republicans can use impeachment to purge Trump from the GOP, although he would need the support of at least 16 additional Republican senators to vote to convict.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Where else?
They can call it North American Zealots Incorporated
StatGirl
(518 posts)Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)I think not. What the Republicans need is a separate lunatic fringe party.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Our tent isn't that big.
captain queeg
(10,188 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)The Repub Party has long been an unholy alliance between big business, the Talibangelists, and the white trash of our country. All of them feel entitled to a great degree and see it slipping away as the Party continues to lag in the demographic contest.
They took their 2012 Autopsy report and basically trashed it and doubled down on the KKK and supply side bullshit, which resulted in Trump.
If the Repub Party suffers a huge drop in support, they earned it.
onetexan
(13,040 posts)the GOP have noone else to blame.
dutch777
(3,013 posts)Let them go form the Slightly Less Wingnut to the Right party.
Arne
(2,012 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)PSPS
(13,594 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)I worked with them. Without them and their tireless work, AZ would not have gone blue. I think that this populist trump/Qanon faction of the Republican Party is extremely dangerous and I would not like to see the moderate and sane republicans capitulate to them. Like it or not, well be working alongside them fighting authoritarianism for a while.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Moderate, both Left and Right, is where most Americans fall on the political spectrum.
Moderates are often open to Progressive ideas. Moderates certainly don't like the crazies.
The GOP will keep losing normal people until they leave the "Freedumb!" behind.
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)StatGirl
(518 posts)They'll gain back a fair number of "business-friendly" Democrats, I suspect.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)they'd get back. Eventually. Big, however, is that the Republican leadership would still be far right, not crazy right, just what they'd already become -- authoritarian, anti-government, anti-tax and -regulation, sack the nation and screw the people right.
The rest btw, before their loser insurrection though, were polled as 25% identifying Repub, 31% Democrat..
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The zealots will still win seats in extreme red parts of the country and states, but if sane republicans work with Democrats, the zealots will have zero state and national power.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)anyway. They want their own party of low life's.
twin_ghost
(435 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)You'll never know, dear, how much I love them! Please don't chase my nazis away!"
Quixote1818
(28,930 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)onetexan
(13,040 posts)IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)The nutcases need to find their own party, and leave the rest of us the f alone
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)Solved.
DFW
(54,370 posts)Just like the all left after the impeachment and pending removal from office of Richard Nixon in 1974, right? Notice how that set the Republican Party back decades? The country didn't elect another Republican president until, how long was that again?
Oh, right. Six year later.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)Especially if the GOP doesn't control the House or the Senate!
DFW
(54,370 posts)The two Georgia Senate seats were won DESPITE disenfranchisement efforts, not due to a lack of them.
Six years is precious little time for the kind of damage control that is now necessary, and the money and distraction necessary to keep our numbers in the Senate and the House are a constant distraction. Fox Noise and National Hate Radio will be running on overdrive. If Biden cures cancer, the Republicans will spin it as a plot to keep oncologists out of work, and they will break down the doors of hospitals to make their point (or, to be accurate, their crazies will do it for them, and "the secretary will disavow all knowledge of their actions." )
sandensea
(21,627 posts)We run the risk of voters (as a whole) forgetting the Trump disaster after 8 years or so - much as they forgot the Bush calamity after 8 years.
Those who forget history...
librechik
(30,674 posts)not holding my breath
roamer65
(36,745 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The Constitution Party is where you go when Lauren Boebert is too liberal for you.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)What could go wrong???
NotASurfer
(2,149 posts)Isn't that the same fraction of angels that followed Satan and which were cast down from heaven?
Which makes the prince of the fallen in this case a certain orange-hued desecration?
Raftergirl
(1,285 posts)do you?
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Just split the GOP vote, please.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)Sounds like you need another encounter with your neighbor Randy
Silver1
(721 posts)How about doing the right thing? That might help their party.
IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)Gift of prophesy huh.
gulliver
(13,180 posts)Otherwise, we'd have the situation that Dems disqualified Trump from running again in 2024. That would do the Republicans a favor, because they'd run against us on that while also being rid of Trump.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)door=butt you know the rest