George Conway predicts Republicans will vote against Trump on impeachment

[struggle4progress]

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 09/25/19 10:45 AM EDT

George Conway, husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and a frequent critic of President Trump, on Wednesday predicted that Republicans in the Senate would break with the president and vote to remove Trump from office if the House votes to impeach.

Conway tweeted that Republican senators would hide their decision to vote against the president until the last possible minute on the issue.

"I agree with this. There may be Republican senators who won’t say a word until the moment they say 'guilty' when the roll is called at the end of an impeachment trial," he tweeted, responding to a political commentator who argued that Republican senators would vote to impeach the president because many "privately hate" Trump ...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/462967-george-conway-predicts-republicans-will-vote-against-trump-on

[YOHABLO]

1. Perhaps to save their political careers? I hope so.

[htuttle]

2. So, he'll end up being knifed in the back by Senators?

Appropriately imperial ending, I suppose.

Would prefer tumbrels and knitting needles...and such, myself.

[duforsure]

3. They will have to

Or face their party getting destroyed for years to come. Every day he remains in office the more damage he does to them and their party.

[Mike 03]

4. McConnell has seemed to be distancing himself.

I'm still waiting for Trump to lash out at McConnell on twitter. Once that happens, I'll get more excited about the possibility of the senate voting to impeach. There needs to be evidence of a falling-out between T and Mc.

[ooky]

5. Well, he has been a major pain in their butts

and it is a way to end that particular pain.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I have little doubt that when they no longer have anything to fear...

they'll hold a party when he walks the plank.

[gratuitous]

7. First things first

Let this all be done decently and in order (h/t Presbyterians). First, develop the evidence and the testimony. Establish the record. Put it out there, day after day, for the country to see. Robert Mueller left a perfectly usable bomb for the House to pick up and use: "If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so." The evidence is right there in the Mueller report, all laid out nice and neat. Mueller constrained himself not to bring charges because of his reading of Department of Justice rules that said a sitting president can't be charged with a crime. The House is under no such constraint.

Much of the heavy lifting has been done. It's up to the House to do its job, which they at last seem inclined to do. Our job, as supporters of the United States and defenders of the Constitution is to have their back. There may be reasons for current incumbents to be turned out of office in 2020, but the faithful performance of their duty under the Constitution isn't one of them.

[Karadeniz]

8. A lot of them are sick and tired of having him in the WH with all the problems his mafia mind

Creates. They'd rather be unable to have him run again and impeachment would legally bar him from being president again. I am cautiously optimistic that we may be able to scratch up enough GOP senators to impeach. However, I will be asking the spirits to sensitize those souls to god values, just to do something to help!!!!!

Snide remarks on my last sentence are unnecessary!❤

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. I wish I shared his optimism.