That doesn't make her an HP, but we are all out of statesmen and stateswomen.
Why not try being one yourself rather than devoting your forum presence to tirelessly defending or (in this case) equivocating obvious wrongdoing from a politician you happen to support?
I could say the same for you, and for most of the forum, including many I view as FFs. You're not a bad person, but you show rank partisanship in your posts and you don't deviate from your leftist perspective. That's fine; it really is, but you're just one more person here who can apply the adage: "Let it begin with me!".
People have been unfair to President Trump since DAY ONE. People were bound and determined to stop him from being the GOP Nominee, and from being the President. And people were enraged when Trump crashed the party and won the election.
The entire investigation process and impeachment process is a sham. There are reasons to not vote for Trump, but no reason to impeach him. THAT'S my statesman position.
Donald Trump was obviously a flawed person, enough that he was unable to win even a plurality of the popular vote -- but he won the right votes, so we are stuck with him. That does not mean that he is beyond criticism when he makes extreme lapses of moral discretion. Your side was not so generous with Barack Obama, who had much less evidence of being a corrupt, cruel, reckless leader and showed no signs of such after becoming President. What most who voted against Trump saw in him has proved an understatement before he was elected.
We have no more duty to be 'fair' to President Trump by your standard than your side was 'fair' to Barack Obama. Part of freedom is the right to act as a swine without doing real harm as we understand in statutory law.
If the President cannot be impeached for an attempt to blackmail a foreign head of state for his own political gain, then what else can he get away with? Murder? War crimes? Embezzlement? Bribe-taking? We Democrats have seen much that we find objectionable, but not clearly impeachable. A failed attempt to blackmail a foreign leader doesn't raise so much passion, but it is as impeachable a deed as is possible. Democrats had to impeach the President for such even if such were inconvenient, ill-timed, and ineffective.
Paradoxically, Democrats get to hit President Trump on an activity in which Republicans usually have the political advantage. It is up to Republicans to decide whether to put conscience over partisanship.
Oh, yes -- far better is it that we have an impeachment and not a military coup. Be glad that the Armed Services, the intelligence services, the diplomatic corps, and federal law enforcement had House Democrats to which to turn. The Democratic majority in the House did its job, and did it well.
