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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's like you like you try to keep topping the stupid with every next post. Attacks on the FBI may motivate people who are already in Trump's camp, but there are *no* undecided voters who are going to vote against Democrats because FBI agents too zealously tried to protect the country. If Republicans are going to pick an institution to destroy in the name of motivating their base, I wouldn't have thought it would be the FBI, but Trump's ego is a tricky thing.
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I'm not suggesting how the GOP's tactic is aimed at bringing in new voters. I agree it won't do so. The move is defensive. By making a quagmire of the debate using the Horowitz Report's findings, the GOP intends to blunt any adverse impact to Trump otherwise caused by impeachment hearings or sustained discussion of possible impeachment hearings.
If you want my conjecture, I think this is wise on the GOP's part, but likely unnecessary because I don't think impeachment hearings will change a single vote in either direction.
You should read more carefully, without assuming I'm writing from a party-supporter perspective. Recall, I honestly don't care very much. My axe to grind on this subject, and so many others, is with our media. But I do very much enjoy the chess element of the thing, particularly where the players are so confused and the moves so unpredictable. I hate to mix metaphors, but this is like watching run and gun politics. I can't recall anything like it.
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