everyone was ready to play the devils advocate in the impeachment controversy.
everyone was willing to speak against the impeachment to encourage discussion on it.
i think it may just be a public official/politician thing. democrats don't have to good of a record either i bet. i just think they were trying to be conservative in a roman catholic priest kind of way. don't forget george w. bush's white house, with the allegations against his vp.

harry truman had lots of support, early in his career, from a kansas city mob-ring. kennedy may have owed his presidency to the daley political machine in chicago (whose remnants are attempting to besmirch our current president elect). lbj may have been in deep with various members of the military-industrial complex (though i don't think he had anything to do with jfk's assassination). 

but these are all rumours. the gop has a lot of 'splainin' to do, especially when they always take the moral high ground!

btw, andrew johnson was acquitted (as was clinton), and grant's scandal was not teapot dome (that was harding) but various kick-backs and short-changing of the indians. and he was a republican. the question was about democratic party abuses, and i'm sure there are plenty there to go around. just no so's you'd notice. not always. for example, jared kushner who is jewish, was prepared to shack up with trumps awful daughter. too many illegal immigrants and pathetic politicians...oh and political correctness. probably. some people get f****** offended so god d*** easy. Kennedy will defend states rights. Always has Always will. Obama care Smells like   

Dog crap. i support, and have already voted for president trump. absolutely not. the proposal to abolish the electoral college is the horrid, but depressingly predictable, symptom of a populist age.populism is not a schematic philosophy but is rather an attitude toward culture and politics characterized by the veritable worship of "the common man," a distrust of elites, a wariness toward complexity and - significantly - a deep dislike of established institutions. (called these days, "the establishment" or "the swamp.") in this, then, the movement to abolish the electoral college is part of a larger current running through the society.indeed, at the same time that there have been calls to abolish the electoral college, there have also been calls to abolish the u. s. senate, or abolish the filibuster, to pack the supreme court (or limit the terms of justices or make other changes), to raise the voting age to 16 and in some cases to allow illegal immigrants to vote. what all of these have in common is that they take a torch to established institutions, particularly those institutions that put a break on the pure expression of the popular will.indeed, this is not just a phenomenon on the democratic side of the aisle at the moment. the republicans have been vocal in their attacks on the "media" - as if that were a single entity - and on silicon valley - which in the popular mode of the hour has discriminated and oppressed conservatives, it is alleged.most of all, republican who are feigning outrage over senator warren's call to abolish the electoral college are forgetting that one donald j. trump has advocated its abolition as well - at least until it helped him win. mr. trump - like all good populists - is no slave to consistency, after all.at any rate, abolition of the electoral college would be a horrid idea. it would effectively disenfranchise huge swaths of the country as both parties would camp out in california, new york, texas, florida and maybe ohio, leaving the rest of the country to itself. this would also very likely set the stage for the rise of regional parties, with all that would entail for the balkanization of the nation's politics.moreover, if the nation enjoyed the spectacle of the 2000 election, it should be prepared. in that year, the fight was over florida's electoral votes which confined the battle - as a legal and political matter - to the vote in one or two counties in that state. turn the battle into a nationwide popular vote and instantly the fight would move to the count in every close vote in every closely fought district across the country.there is irony in this. 2000 was effectively resolved by a ruling in the supreme court - that bastion of elitist judges and lawyers. abolish the electoral college and close votes across the country will invariably end up in the courts as a routine matter.the electoral college has served the nation well for over 200 years and such long established institutions deserve deference. their endurance certainly suggesting that they have worked as well as anything works in an imperfect world.wise societies realize that. which certainly suggests something about the state of american society. the whole world wants democracy.

notice that none of them want republicacy. they have that double standard thing down, thats for sure.