Originally Posted by rporter314
Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
It is only in your partisan imagination that there is a "Trumpian ideological purity test."
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.
Yes, you are naive.
Originally Posted by LBJ
“I don’t want loyalty. I want loyalty! I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.”
Trump has NEVER made a demand for loyalty like LBJ did.

Originally Posted by rporter314
My defense of him against the attempt to impeach him is because it is a political attack on him. 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.
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

Originally Posted by rporter314
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.
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.

Originally Posted by rporter314
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.
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.

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