Impeachment Through the Women

No, not rumors - or partial-truths about Trump.

Women doing what women do so well.

Using social pressure to bring down their opponent.

It worked before - when Nixon was brought to the point of resigning, it was largely due to unrelenting pressure brought upon him by men giving in to pressure by women:

• Katherine Graham's Washington Post
• Barbara Jordan
• Judy Hoback (now Miller) - the bookkeeper who talked to Bernstein and Woodward about the Committee's finances
• Debbie Sloan, who pressured her husband, Hugh, the committee's treasurer, to talk to the reporting pair
• Martha Mitchell, the alcoholic wife of the US Attorney General and campaign manager, who was always available for gossip - true or not

In fact, it could be reasonably argued that Republican women were largely responsible for Nixon's 1974 election in the first place. These were traditional women, not feminists. At that time (late 1960's to early 1970's), many women opposed feminism for its goals that promoted single women over married, career women over housewives, and were shredding governmental protections of their financial stability.

In Congress, the first women flooding into the House and Senate immediately started 'support organizations' that leaned - HEAVILY - Left. As you can see from the list in this link, although Republican women were well represented in the early days after women's suffrage, by the mid-1960's, most of the women in Congress were hard-core Democrats, and what I would call East Coast "Nice Republican Ladies" who also favored birth control and abortion. An example of that type was Millicent Fenwick, whose type was featured in Doonesbury's comic as Lacey Davenport.

For such women, Nixon was simply that 'terribly middle-class' person who occupied the White House. They had no loyalty to him, and were callous about their part in bringing him down by their 'dignified' failure to support him in crisis.

An argument could be made that Nixon's having had daughters, rather than sons, made him uniquely vulnerable to pressure of the kind that women specialize in. He was surrounded by women who just wanted to stop the pushback they were receiving from their friends.

That was then. Trump is now, and he is NOT going to gracefully give in to pressure. He is pushing back, not only on counter-smears (which work, as they are based on truth), but also on aggressively moving forward on his plans for the nation - economic, international, and anti-bureaucratic.

Rush Limbaugh points out that the Democratic plan, at this point, is to use Republicans to muscle the President to give up and gracefully resign. They are operating under an old playbook, that tells them the GOP will give up a lot - EVERYTHING - to keep from being associated with distasteful, crude people and actions.

Not now. Even the normally quiet-spoken and meek Lindsey Graham has come out swinging. Don't be fooled by his opposition to Trump on the Mideast. Graham is principled, but fair. He WILL support the President.

And, in other news, the Tired Old Battleaxe is gunning for another competitor she might wound and destroy with proxy attacks.

But, Tulsi isn't having any of it - she's calling the Hill OUT!

From now on, when I reference something on social media, I'm going to take a screenshot, as well as add a link - too many inconvenient posts are disappearing.