Take a stand and get torn apart by rabid Trump fanboys in a Republican primary, or swallow their principles and with it their credibility towards moderate voters in the general.
That assumes that the principled thing to do is to remove the President, despite any evidence that would support such a removal. That's a load of shit.
Pelosi did take a huge risk because she will push moderates against Democrats, it does make the Party look like it's lurched far to the left, and Trump has raised way more money because of impeachment than he otherwise would have.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
As Senate Trial Begins, 44% Approve of Trump (Gallup Poll)
- 22/01/2020 12:47:44 PM
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You do realize that is the single most anti-impeachment recent poll out there?
- 22/01/2020 06:19:18 PM
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Fivethirtyeight rates the polling of it a B. So it's credible.
- 24/01/2020 02:07:19 PM
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Sure it is, I didn't say it's an unreliable poll. Just that it's an outlier.
- 24/01/2020 06:41:47 PM
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Not sure I agree with your last point.
- 24/01/2020 08:06:49 PM
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I did say the more outlandish ideas. Not that they wouldn't pass anything at all.
- 24/01/2020 08:10:20 PM
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I'm not passing any judgement on the legislation as I haven't read it.
- 24/01/2020 08:57:33 PM
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Okay, but then I don't think we're really talking about the same thing here.
- 24/01/2020 10:09:36 PM
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I wonder what Pelosi has in mind for her endgame.
- 22/01/2020 06:38:41 PM
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The Democrats already know they're going to lose 1 here in Alabama
- 22/01/2020 06:58:00 PM
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I assume that's why he said 4. Otherwise 3 would do it, with a Dem VP.
- 22/01/2020 07:26:04 PM
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I don't think that's what he meant.
- 22/01/2020 07:32:20 PM
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Oh. Right. 
Assuming a Trump re-election, then - certainly plausible at this point. *NM*
- 22/01/2020 07:38:37 PM
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Assuming a Trump re-election, then - certainly plausible at this point. *NM*
- 22/01/2020 07:38:37 PM
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Yes aerocontrols is right..
- 22/01/2020 08:39:49 PM
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That bump is, at least so far, purely hypothetical.
- 22/01/2020 09:25:55 PM
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It's also 10 months away. Polls can change a lot in 10 months. *NM*
- 22/01/2020 09:49:41 PM
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Your premise is full of shit
- 23/01/2020 05:44:01 PM
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Er, yes, since you ask, I do include you among said 'rabid Trump fanboys'.
- 23/01/2020 06:58:41 PM
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I mean, Roy Moore is running in this election again, as far as I'm aware.
- 23/01/2020 03:41:57 AM
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Surely this time, if Trump is also all-in against him, there's no way he wins the primary? *NM*
- 23/01/2020 07:02:33 PM
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Surely, a pedophile won't win the nomination. - me a few years back *NM*
- 24/01/2020 04:11:58 AM
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?!
- 24/01/2020 12:35:28 PM
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Oh, well, yeah then, my bad. Moore's just such a cultural touchstone here,
- 24/01/2020 05:07:51 PM
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Apparently afterwards it was claimed that this was widely known in his hometown since the 80s...
- 24/01/2020 06:07:15 PM
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Seriously, does anyone except lefty partisans give a shit about "impeachment"?
- 24/01/2020 03:37:53 AM
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