should the whole Russia thing have been avoided?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I know that understanding this has never really been within your capabilities, freepcrusher, but there are people in this world who pursue avenues that they think ought--morally, ethically--to be pursued, not just avenues that put them at an advantage in three-dimensional chess games of their own devising.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

There is no evidence that Trump has committed an honest-to-goodness impeachable offense.

There's no evidence that Trump has committed a misdemeanor? Seriously?

Instead, they're beginning to airlift candidates into the race.

You're fundamentally misunderstanding why this is being done. Democratic voters are actually quite happy with the current field and Trump isn't breaking out of the low 40s in polling against any of them; it's donors and Beltway power brokers who are getting jitters about a field that (save for a visibly senile ur-insider and an Eddie Munsteresque small-city mayor) is dominated by #populist M4A proponents and who are trying to make Bloomberg and Patrick happen.