Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   My favorite Date:   12/13/2019 9:14:09 AM

While I think you are giving them way more credit than they deserve I do think Pelosi's political instincts are on the mark when it comes to impeachment, both in terms of the timing (late in the first term) and the rationale.  But she has no option because she knows the base will go ballistic if they don't impeach.  They will primary moderate Dems in districts won by Trump and replace them with socialists that will surely lose in 2020.  She is caught between a rock and a hard place and it is of her own making.  She let socialists like the four horsewomen of the apocolypse gain national prominence and never realized what that would mean for the Democrat party.