How will history judge GOP senators?

Heading into the critical impeachment votes, Democrats and their media allies were working overtime to try to shame Republican senators into voting for ADDITIONAL witnesses and the ultimate removal of President Trump from office.

(“Additional” is emphasized to draw attention to the fact that there were 18 witnesses with testimony presented in both the House and Senate – either live or via video.  Outside of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr, that is how witnesses were handled in the Clinton impeachment.  They did not appear on the floor of the Senate as implied in news reports.)

But I digress.

One of the main claims in the shaming effort is that Senators who did not vote with the Democrats will have their reputations destroyed now and in the future.  They will forever be remembered negatively for their vote.  History will not be kind to them.

I have lived through two impeachment efforts.  The first was the aborted impeachment of President Nixon and the second the impeachment of President Clinton.  The Nixon impeachment was more memorable to me because I worked in the Nixon White House – although I was back in the private sector when that break-in at the Watergate occurred.

Obviously, I followed the events very closely.  I even knew a lot of the players in the White House and in Congress.  I remember more than most, but that is no big deal because most people today have virtually no knowledge other than Nixon was about to be impeached – and he resigned.  That is about it.

The names of the senators who supported or opposed Nixon are barely known to historians.  Their biographies and obituaries are filled with many more notable accomplishments.  To the extent they are remembered, it is only by those few who do research and, perhaps, the folks in their local communities.

Even in the Clinton impeachment – with all that sensationalism – there is very little civic memory of individual senators.  And … were all those Democrat senators who voted to acquit Clinton the same political pariahs that Democrats and the press now describe contemporary Republicans?

In other words, all this talk about their name in history is nonsense.  Anyone who thinks that the names and works of the senators who served as the impeachment jury will resonate through history are either foolish or arrogant.

Most senators probably know that – and that is the reason that they could not be shamed by the Democrat/media character assassination campaign.  It is not easy to shame people who believe that they did the right thing for the country – even if others might disagree.

I would dare say that a good number of those Republican senators are proud of their vote – feeling that they did the right thing.  Even more, there are probably a lot of folks back home who will applaud their senator’s vote.  Living in Florida, I am very happy that Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio put an end to that highly partisan impeachment.

The shameful shaming tactic will not work because it will not influence the legislators or change many minds among the public.  It is just the left displaying its arrogance and intolerance.  The real shame falls on the east coast press for engaging in this low-level political propaganda.

So, there ‘tis.

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11 Thoughts to “How will history judge GOP senators?”

  1. John

    I studied the Nixon frame up. Using only open source material there is a strong case that two naive reporters were led down the primrose path by democratic operatives with fabricated intel. The way they did it was using information with just a touch of truth to season it.

  2. Thomas

    Those who should be ashamed are the do-nothing Democrats who have been so consumed by their hatred of the President since the inauguration. The Democratic Congress has done NOTHING for the American people who elected them to do the peoples business.
    The Democratic Party of today is not what it used to be–sad.

  3. Elizabeth Marcinkevich

    In my opinion the GOP Senators SUCK! They only are thinking about themselves and not the American people that voted for them to take care of us. I’ll NEVER vote Republican again.

  4. AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT

  5. Joe

    I am proud of our Senators in Louisiana!

  6. Barbara

    I’M HOPING THAT HISTORY WILL SHOW OUR GOP SINCE 2017 TO BE GROWING IN STRENGTH AND STAMINA ALONG WITH THE PEOPLES SUPPORT. THEY HAVE STOOD STRONG IN OVER WHELMING ATTACKS FROM THE LEFT. BEING SCARED WAS NO OPTION FOR THEM OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE ALL KNEW WHAT WAS AT STAKE AND WE STOOD TOGETHER FOR THE BATTLE. WE GAVE WHAT EVER WE COULD TO SUPPORT THEM IN WINNING.

  7. History will judge the GOP of doing the right thing. While the President’s counsel spoke in respectful, knowledgeable, and convincing tones reflecting factual information the Dems spoke in terms of hatred, lies, rumors, and innuendos that have repeatably been proven to be false even by their 17 witnesses.

  8. Bo

    Gop senators should be judged for what they are. Cowards afraid to cross trump because they may lose their lousy jobs. History will judge them and the people who support them

  9. EXCEPT for the RINOs (TRAITORS), they did the right PATRIOTIC thing. The OTHER TRAITORS (Democrats) will be looked upon as VILLAINS, and, well . . . TRAITORS, to the U.S. Constitution and the American People. Team Trump and his allies 2020.

  10. Greg

    Despite it being said that the President’s actions were “inappropriate”, as a taxpayer, I personally find it decidedly MORE inappropriate than to foward BILLIONS of American taxpayers dollars into regimes to disappear entirely, or make their way into coffers of our sworn enemies. I have read the transcript of the telephone call in question, and found it to be ENTIRELY appropriate in defending the interests of those of us who ultimately foot the bill. If one of our own corrupt politicians is caught up in excercising prudent foreign aid fund transfer policies, then perhaps the blame lies with said corrupt politician. EVERYTHING stated in the Democrat articles of impeachment was totally mischaracterized, and I believe that any historical “asterisk” applied to this action will be properly considered in favor of our duly elected President.

  11. The Republican Senators stand by what they believed was right!!!
    In regards with the Democrat Representatives, the stand by their Democrat Party
    no matter what, whether they’re right or wrong!

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