Posts Made By: Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Given all that we're seeing unfold before us, the general concept in your post is a likely possibility. Take the impeachment trial, for instance. The cons on the forum haven't watched it but are commenting on it. A number of GOP senators could care less and will vote no, period. The rest of the nation, not to mention the world, are watching and the majority of voters who elected Biden are also the ones likely to elect the next president. The nuts in the GOP aren't going to change so that faction in the party will not adapt and modify its behavior. They're more likely to become a fringe element over time and many of them think Trump will regain the presidency on March 4th. The net result will be a split in the Republican party...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/us/mcconnell-trump-impeachment-acquittal.html

Feb. 13, 2021

WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell said he believed that Donald J. Trump was undeniably guilty of a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” on Jan. 6, when he incited and then failed to do anything to halt a deadly assault on the Capitol.

“There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, and minority leader, declared Saturday afternoon in an anti-Trump diatribe so scathing that it could have been delivered by any of the nine House prosecutors seeking a conviction.

To believe that Trump is not guilty, you would have to conclude that OBL was not responsible for 9/11 because he did not fly the planes into the buildings. He merely asked and inspired people to do it, gave money, resources, and oxygen to the effort, set the plan in motion, and launched the action from afar. Every honest person knows Trump is guilty, and a super-majority of Americans think he is responsible for the Capitol attack.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Well, the R party seems destined to split in two...  Which will ensure Democrat victories in 2022 and 2024 and beyond.. (President AOC in 2032?........)  I've seen  talk of the Lincoln Project 'wing' of the Republicans perhaps going on their own... Or the far right Trumpers going on their own.... who will keep the name 'Republican' and who will have to find a new name?  

The "First Past the Post" voting system is never kind to 3rd parties - they just become spoilers... we have had that here in Canada for decades - the Conservative and Liberal parties sort of alternate governments with the NDP flailing around in 3rd place pretty much permanently....

Dave

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Most people would be able to tell I was drawing a similarity between aiding and abetting. There is no need to designate a motive to what I said that is not there.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Polling shows a third of the Republican party believes in Qanon, a third believes in conspiracy theories that the election was stolen and the remaining third consists of conservative Republicans who can be reasoned with. So, as it stands now, two thirds of the GOP are composed of crackpots and cultists. You don't have to self-identify which part you follow; we already know...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Poll? Look at what happened on January 6th...