Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Where have all the conservatives gone?

I consider myself a tradition conservative, I don't support Trump, never voted for him and won't in 2020. I don't consider Trump a conservative at all. I know Republicans who don't consider the eight time party switcher even a Republican. They consider Trump an thin skinned egotistical opportunist who took advantage of the brewing anger within the GOP against those Republicans in congress for not stopping Obama cold.

Why does Trump have such a high approval and favorable ratings among Republicans, they consider him better than the alternative.

Conservative naivete

Every Trump biographer has stated Mr Trump demands loyalty. It is not me who made that up. It is based on their perceptions of the man. That I am able to see the same from a public perspective ... well ... I am not naive.

How is breaking the law a political attack????

Here is the problem with your comment. If you believe the Democrats are trying to impeach purely for political reasons then why didn't they do it in the first 3 months he was in office? Why wait until a whistleblower alerts the world to a criminal offense? if it is political.

The House could have overlooked all of his non-presidential behavior, because it is not impeachable, but it can not overlook a blatant criminal offense which has a ton of supporting and corroborating evidence including not only Trump's own staff admitting it, but Mr Trump admitting he did the deed. The House will draw up articles of impeachment. If the trial was held inside any courtroom in America, he would be convicted. In the Senate as of now ... probably not. Maybe it's true what some former GOP congressmen have said, that if the vote was in secret, they would get rid of him.

So you claim you are not support Mr trump but you give him a pass on all he has done ... I mean that sounds like you support him in what ever he does and says .... but if you should see the light for what he is, what the hell is wrong with supporting VP Pence????? Doesn't VP Pence have the same agenda as real conservatives? wouldn't he have a more rational approach to trade, foreign affairs, domestic issues??? So I don;t buy your, I do not support Mr trump bit.

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I guess he does not resonate with Southern Democrats ... o mean Republicans ... you know the ones ... the Dukes and Spensers and all the closeted followers

You just gave some of the reason why Republicans would not support him and then say he is the best alternative .... really!!!! Sorry but there is only one thing that separates him from all the other candidates in 2016 and if all the other issues are considered then he was not the best alternative to anyone ... what is his primary issue ... what drives his base ... they can overlook everything he does because he does one thing for them ... he is their voice

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NO I do not make that assumption. That is your belief that I make such an assumption. If you read my posts I have made it clear not all Republicans are bigots. Likewise not all Republicans are Trump supporters but may have voted for him. Let me throw this out for you to chew on ... I suspect all former Southern Democrats who are now affiliated with the Republican Party are bigots. Biggest ideological swap in history. If ya voted for CRA 1964 you got voted out of office. O wait a sec ... more facts who don't believe.

I don't know where conservatives get these strange ideas. I know I used to hear it on right wing talk radio ... always lying about liberals. Maybe thats where. I dunno.

But I do find it strange that you continue with making up what you believe other people believe when you accused everyone in this forum of doing precisely the same thing you do ... so I dunno

Yes, you are naive. Trump has NEVER made a demand for loyalty like LBJ did.

Wasn't The Mueller Report supposed to be the proof that Pres. Trump should be impeached? It didn't work so now you are claiming that what the "whistle-blower" said is the proof that Trump should be impeached. If the claim made by the "whistle-blower" is the proof of Trump's criminal behavior why haven't articles of impeachment been drawn up? The Democrats had some patience before calling Trump's impeachment, they waited almost 4 months before the first call for impeachment was made. Rep. Al Green

The phone call, which you claim is a "blatant criminal offense" was made back in August. Now almost two months later the House has not drawn up articles of impeachment. If the criminal behavior was that blatant articles of impeachment would have been drawn up by now.

What he has done has not warranted drawing up articles of impeachment. Neither The Mueller Report nor the "phone call" has convinced the Democrats in Congress to draw up articles of impeachment.

Many thought the obstruction charge was reason enough. Pelosi held them back. But kept impeachment on the table awaiting further charges. And just as expected DJT delivered. This can go on for months.

Trump is going to have to mind his Ps and Qs because his rookie mistakes are probably going to bring up other charges.

Eventually Republicans will have to consider convicting him. Have I mentioned albatrosses? And how they stink when you hang a dead one around a sailors neck? Some republicans are beginning to wake up and smell the albatross. Some are not. But it will ultimately be at their own peril.

I think the internet should start photoshopping those albatrosses in whenever they show a picture of a Republican Representative or a Senator who is up for this election cycle.

They will probably fight it to the bitter end and go down with the ship in November 2020. Now if they were smart, they would get word to Pelosi they have the votes so she could fast track Articles to the Senate. Then as soon as they start the trial, just vote Trump out. They would have Pence who is a perfectly good conservative Republican with none (or not much) of Trump's scandals. He would sign anything they sent to the White House, and some of them might keep their jobs.

But they are not that smart.

Senator ... you are either very naive (and my experience with conservatives is they are) or ... well I can't say that in this forum!!!!!

Your rebuttal is Mr Trump did not use the same type language as Pres Johnson. Really??? You should have said Mr Trump never asked in any manner for loyalty, otherwise you just admitted Mr Trump does demand loyalty ... just as I said.

As usual the conservative delusion.

NO!!!!

SP Mueller was mandated to open "... an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials". So where in that mandate do you find anything about impeachment???? No ... can't find it? because it's not there.

The meme "it didn't work" is another conservative delusion. The Report should you ever read it describes in detail what was found. I'll let you regurgitate Fox News for your source but highly recommend reading the primary source.

The whistleblower filed a claim in which he described abuse of power. The ICIG thought the report after his investigation was more than credible and sent it to proper authorities. The House is in the process of gathering facts to either substantiate or refute the claims made by the whistleblower. As is your usual MO, you have made claims which are figments of your imagination.

Unlike your comments of Democrats rushing to impeach for political purposes, they are actually running a slow methodical investigation to gather the facts (you do want to know the facts?) and make a determination.

When you abuse a singular person making a call and universalize it, you have lied. One person (and I seem to recall a couple of Democrats making the call) does not make the whole Democrat caucus making a call of impeachment. The call by a handful of people would be the same as the impeachment call of Pres Obama of a handful of Republicans, not the whole Republican caucus.

I guess you want the Democrats to manufacture the evidence. Or maybe you want the Democrats to "lynch" Mr Trump without articles of impeachment being filed or a trial in the Senate. I have to ask ... what is wrong with you!!!!!

Now that is naive to have said that.

Unlike Republicans who excoriated Sec Clinton without justification (remember Rep McCarthy? he said it best ... the Benghazi hearings were a way to impact her residential run in 2016) the Democrats are trying to get the facts (and so far they look bad for Mr trump) and make the determination to write the articles of impeachment. When the investigation is over, and only then, will articles be written.

What is your rush? You would continue to support Mr Trump if he shot kids in a school.

Because I don;t think you do any research (except to read right wing nut sites) for your edification here are some things.


so what did Mr Trump do?


Mr Trump offered goods, military aid and a meeting, and ecpected in return a consideration from Ukraine, opening investigations into Burisma, Bidens, and DNC and make public statement to that effect.

FEC Laws

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I suspect, and only because I am not an attorney nor have I read the law, but can read and reasonably interpret what I read, the call and all supporting efforts by Sec Pompeo, Sec Perry, AG Barr, and rogue attorney for Mr Trump, Giuliani and associates to further Mr Trump's illegal acts, do in fact constitute legitimate reasons to impeach any president.

But I dunno ... maybe you need to find that DNC server

No, it is not just as you said. You said that Trump had a "Trumpian ideological purity test" he did not and does not have an "ideological purity test." Does Trump ask for loyalty? Yes, as a business executive he did ask for loyalty to his business not himself. Did Trump ask those who would work in his Presidential administration to be loyal to him? Yes, he did, every President does. But mot in the crude, narcissistic, and grandiose way that LBJ did.
While the investigation that was summarized in the Mueller Report was being conducted those who want Trump impeached were convinced that the investigation and the report on it would provide the House grounds to draw up articles of impeachment. That did not happen. Since I did not form the same opinion from reading the Mueller Report that you did you make the erroneous claim that I did not read it. To expect others to have the same opinion you do from reading something is extremely partisan.

Yet you have, as is your usual MO, repeatedly stated that the "whistle-blower's" complaint is proof positive that Trump broke the law. Who is rushing to impeach Trump? You are! Fortunately, that decision is to be made by the House of Representatives not rabid anti-Trump partisans not you.

The call for impeachment was first made on May 17, 2017 by Rep. Al Green. (I posted a link to it from CNN, did you bother to look at it? I doubt it.) Since then a number of Democrats have joined him in calling for Trump's impeachment. I never said that the entire Democratic caucus in the House has called for impeachment. You have constantly referred to THE "whistleblower." As in one person. And only one person has filed a compliant about the call.

No, I do not want the Democrats to manufacture evidence. I want the process to take all the time that is necessary. Again, it is you who has been repeatedly saying that the "whistle-blower's" complaint is proof positive that Trump broke the law. It is you rporter314 that is impatient and wants Trump impeached as soon as possible! If you didn't you would not constantly insist that the "whistle-blower's" complaint is all that is required for articles of impeachment to be drawn up.

Again you are insisting that Trump be impeached based on your opinion, not what the House of Representatives might decide. Unlike you the House has not made a decision that Trump has done anything to warrant drawing up articles of impeachment.

Excoriated Sec. of State Clinton without justification? When she said that the attack on Benghazi was caused by an anti-Muslim video, which was a lie, she got what she deserved.

And you say that is difficult to have a discussion with conservatives. With an insult like that I wonder why I bother to even attempt to have a discussion with you.

Again, you have made the decision that Trump broke the law. A decision based on a complaint of one whistle-blower. A whistle-blower who did hear the call himself but based his complaint on what he was told was said in the call.

Since the research I do does not lead me to have the same opinions you do you denigrate my research. I did some research about you rporter314. In the 52 pages of discussion on the Obama administration here on the Rant not once do you ever call for Pres. Obama to be impeached. In the 520 topics about the Obama administration when any of the things he did that were discussed you either defended him or didn't say anything. During his administration Obama used the IRS to investigate conservative organizations. When Pres. Nixon did that it was one of the reasons articles of impeachment were drawn up against Nixon. Why didn't you demand that Pres. Obama be impeached for that? You have said many times if Obama had committed what might be an impeachable offense you would have called for him to be impeached as strongly as you have for that to happen to Trump. You did not do that. That you did not shows that your desire to have Trump impeached is based on your partisan hatred of Trump. Obama and the IRS attacks on conservative groups.

I think I wandered into the wrong thread...