Well, Rand Paul is in the news, saying that if the Senate impeaches soon-to-be-thank-God-ex President Donald Trump, then about 1/3 of the people in the Republican Party would leave the Republican Party.
I think that would basically end the Republican Party as a functional political force.
So I want to ask Rand, is he sure about that? Because if he is, then well, more power to the impeachment.
(If there was an easier way to make sure Donald Trump didn't run for President again, like a heart attack, then impeachment might not be necessary. But maybe it should be necessary, just to break up the Republican Party.)
Anyway, here are links to two articles. I'm basically going to grab the text of the second one to annotate, and point out how many good things there are in it.
Rand Paul warns ONE THIRD of Republicans will leave the party if McConnell allows Trump to be convicted in impeachment trial as president plans revenge on ten GOP lawmakers who voted against him"I don't often get ask my advice from leadership {about} how they should react. [That is unsurprising.] My unsolicited suggestion would be this: they will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit with an impeachment or leadership votes for an impeachment, they will destroy the party," Paul explained to Fox News' Laura Ingraham. [Destroy the Republican Party? Sign me up!]
Paul said that throughout the course of the Trump administration he has praised Trump when he believes the president is right and broke with Trump when he believes the president is wrong. [The latter did not happen very often.] But an impeachment would be detrimental to the accomplishments that came out of the president's four years in office. [Accomplishments? I'd like to see his list. It better not be very long.]
"Impeachment is purely a partisan thing. It's for these moral, 'Oh I'm so much better than you and you're a bad person because I'm so moral' – It's for these kind of people to do this," he explained about Democrats' partisan impeachment push. [Baloney. It's about following the laws of the country, or not.]
"I didn’t agree with the fight that happened last week, and I voted against overturning the election," the senator said. [Oh, how noble of you!] "But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion but if Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party. A third of the Republicans will leave the party." [He keeps saying "partisan", as if only Democrats are upset about a mob invading and ransacking the U.S. Capitol building. Really?]
Paul warned that the second impeachment push is no longer about the Electoral College but rather about a moral question. [Um, it never WAS about the Electoral College. Where is he getting that from? Did he not read what the House passed?]
"This isn't anymore about the Electoral College. It's about the future of the party and whether you're going to ostracize and exclude and ex-communicate President Trump from the party," he said. "Well, guess what? Millions of his fans will leave as well." [Good riddance. I'd think actual Republicans wouldn't be upset by that.]
Ingraham pointed out that millions of Americans will also feel ostracized, like they too have been impeached, should GOP leadership move forward with ousting Trump." [ If they believe in Trump and what he stands for, ostracism is a gentle way to get pushed out. I'd prefer exile.]
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