{"id":55205,"date":"2017-05-21T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55205"},"modified":"2017-05-21T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T00:04:10","slug":"impeachment-the-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55205","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment: the unintended consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; unknown unknowns and the cloud of unknowing ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>As so often, there&#8217;s little thought given to consequences when thise who deeply dislike and distrust President Trump call for his impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>One consequence of a successful impeachment and conviction would be the ascension of VP Pence to the office of the Presidency &#8212; a possibility dramatized for liberals by the discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/abcarian\/la-me-abcarian-pence-marriage-20170405-story.html\">an old interview<\/a> in which &#8220;Vice President Mike Pence once had told The Hill, a political newspaper and website, that he never dines with women alone, nor does he attend functions without his wife if alcohol is being served.&#8221;  but that can be handled, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trump-Impeach-Pence-First-Sticker\/dp\/B01N2WMAED\">this bumper sticker <\/a>testifies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pence-first.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pence-first.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pence-first-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What worries me a whole lot more, though, is the predictably dire resuts of liberal enthusiasm to convict blinding those same liberals to the militant support President Trump receives from his core support base:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\">@JackPosobiec<\/a> If democrats try to impeach Trump there&#39;s going to b an uprising like never before. We need to stand by Trump. We need to vote out dems 2018<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; I&#39;m Right ?? (@pete03217) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pete03217\/status\/865180388712488960\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchellvii\">@mitchellvii<\/a> Go ahead and impeach Trump, we will make the revolutionary war look like it was a simple trip to Martha&#39;s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cali-Conservative (@CaliConsrvative) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaliConsrvative\/status\/864906723781255168\">May 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; unknown unknowns and the cloud of unknowing ] . As so often, there&#8217;s little thought given to consequences when thise who deeply dislike and distrust President Trump call for his impeachment. One consequence of a successful impeachment and conviction would be the ascension of VP Pence to the office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55205"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55229,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55205\/revisions\/55229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}