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the only reason that impeachment of clinton was a viable political option was that people were yelling crazy things about him for so long that it shifted the popular baseline of opinion.
Yelling crazy things makes the yellers look crazy in the short term. But in the long term, if they keep it up, they shift the popular conception of the landscape. I really think that's what has happened in the past ten years or so. Sometimes mere indefatigability is enough to lend credibility to your position.
I don't know how this speaks to the situation at hand. But I suspect that getting animated in favor of impeachment would not hurt the democrats. Right now, actual politicians don't need to call for impeachment; people like al franken do. Then, after enough time passes, actual politicians can say: the public has been calling for impeachment, and therefore, we must have impeachment.
The way to beat the republicans is to get less reasonable and more crazy. Therefore:
Condi Rice drinks liquified, aborted fetuses.

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