Ask yourself this:

[kentuck]

If Donald Trump was a Democrat and Democrats had control of the Senate, would they vote to convict?

We say, "Of course, they would!"

But, would they?

[irresistable]

1. If ANY Democrat behaved as Trump has, they would not have been tolerated.

If Franken was a republican Senator, he would still be one.

Democrats and Republicans live in different universes.

[PatSeg]

12. Yes, I am far harder

on any Democrat who betrays our trust than any republican. Unlike republicans, we are not a party of mindless sheep and when one of our own does something illegal, we take it very personally.

[applegrove]

26. +1000

[spanone]

2. If we don't apply our laws, our country is a farce.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. there's the big one

It's also why the House *must* impeach when the dust settles on Mueller's report.

[spanone]

25. agree 100%

[rzemanfl]

3. If the Union had an aircraft carrier how long would the Civil War have

lasted?

[dalton99a]

6. Yeah, but the Confederates had a submarine

that sank three times

[Chemisse]

4. I would say yes, because I don't think the Dems are as deeply and thoroughly corrupt

as the Republicans.

Examples:

When Democrats have lost tough elections, they have conceded, power shifts, and the democracy goes on.

When Republicans have lost or looked like they would lose, they have made slimy moves to retain power (recent examples of this), they have committed many forms of election fraud (North Carolina, plus all sorts of voter inhibition laws), they have redrawn districts in their favor, they have threatened or implied they will refuse to accept as valid the results of the election (Trump - 2016).

[brush]

8. Yes, repugs are the greedy, unprincipled, corrupt crooks in society.

They seek to retain power no matter what it takes.

They never stop plotting to do just that with dirty tricks, vote suppression, gerrymandering, Citizens United, Interstate Cross Check, treasonous alliances with Russians—you name it, they do it.

What's not to love .

And on top of that, that party is the home of racist, white supremacists and trump. Who, btw, would never have made it out of the Democratic primaries. Hillary whipped him handily in his home state, remember.

We have to never stop pushing back against them.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

5. No one in Washington would ever vote themselves out of political power.

There are some (well, many, actually, I think) that don't really understand partisan political reality.

[Bettie]

7. If he were a Democrat

first off, he'd never have survived the primaries. We tend to hold our people to a higher standard.

Second, he'd have been asked, long ago, to leave the office.

If he were "ours"...he would already be impeached and out of office.

[CentralMass]

9. In recent history in 1998 the House initiated impeachment against Bill Clinton.

They voted on one charge of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice. In the Senate trial none of the 45 Democratic Senators voted guilty on either charge, so he was acquitted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton

"The trial in the United States Senate began right after the seating of the 106th Congress, in which the Republican Party held 55 Senate seats. A two-thirds vote (67 senators) was required to remove Clinton from office. 50 senators voted to remove Clinton on the obstruction of justice charge and 45 voted to remove him on the perjury charge; no member of his own Democratic Party voted guilty on either charge. Clinton, like Johnson a century earlier, was acquitted on all charges.:

[Chemisse]

14. I don't really think that was comparable.

Clinton's crime of perjury pales in comparison to the felonies Trump has allegedly committed, not to mention his treasonous activities.

Anyone who cares about this country and its democracy would (should) do whatever they can to fight Trump's efforts to demolish it.

[CentralMass]

18. I can agree with what you sre saying but the idea is that no one is above the law.

The President was charged with perjuy and obstruction of justice and broke the law and those were by the definition impeachable offenses. Yet, all 45 Democratic Senators voted not guilty.

[ecstatic]

10. Of course, and this is my line in the sand:

Impeach or I'm gone (at least in spirit). Doing nothing would make us just as disgusting and calculating as the rethugs. Seriously, what good are you if you can't defend our country? That should be their first priority, in addition to election reform.

[Blue_true]

11. I think yes if the evidence was strong.

You seem to be trying to equate democrat's morals with that of republicans, our politicians and democrats in general have very strong morals. There is no comparison.

[kentuck]

13. No, I'm just asking what you think Democrats would do?

I tend to agree with most of the comments above.

However, I think we should continue to investigate and gather more information before we vote to impeach. Sooner or later, it is going to become very difficult to defend Donald Trump. Eventually, he will be impeached or he will resign.

Or he will lose dramatically in the election of 2020 and take down the Republican Party with him, in my opinion.

[Chemisse]

15. It will be better for us if the GOP turns on Trump prior to impeachment proceedings.

Otherwise we have a divided nation and possible some kind of civil war or coup attempt.

[kentuck]

21. The only reason the GOP might turn on Trump...

...is if they see him as too much of a liability to protect anymore.

[Glamrock]

16. Remember all the outrage here and on the teevee about

-Rod Blagojevich being "set up"
-Anthony Weiner being the victim of the deep state
-Bob Menendez being the victim of a witch hunt

Me neither, because it didn't happen. We follow the facts where they lead us and accept the results. It's who we are.

[Vinca]

17. I'm certain they would.

Look at the Franken allegations as an example. Poor Al was given the bum's rush before a panel could even be convened to investigate. If anything, Democrats act too quickly. When it comes to Trump, the GOP needs to recall what happened with Richard Nixon. There was no impeachment trial because members of his own party went to the White House and asked him to resign. Trump's crimes are shaking out to be far worse than Nixon's. The few remaining sane Republicans need to convince the rest to put country over party.

[DFW]

19. I can only ask myself that if we were capable of nominating someone such as Trump

We are not. People like Trump don't even seek the Democratic nomination.

[Iggo]

20. If Donald Trump was a Democrat, he'd be a rich guy with a TV show. (n/t)

[JI7]

22. what is the point of this question ? democrats fucking called for Al Franken to resign

over some bs.
and democrats would not nominate such a piece of shit in the first place.

[Polybius]

23. Well Manchin would

n/t

[AndJusticeForSome]

27. Let's ask Al Franken nt

[Quixote1818]

28. Yes, they would. I know I would! nt

[Ciaphas Cain]

29. Yes

It's not that Democrats are saints it's just that we have standards