[Hoot Gibson]

1. I don't think you're channeling others' thoughts. It's much worse, you actually think like them.
2. Gridlock for sure and Democrats will get the blame. Meanwhile Trump makes their "investigations" look stupid, while he methodically continues to stack the courts with conservative constitutionalists. Might even get another Supreme Court justice confirmed.
3. Are you serious? Of course Democrats will run someone as bad or worse than Hillary. It's all they have. And certainly no Republican can touch Trump.

1. I am a traditional conservative and proud to be one. Most of the people who have shaped my political philosophy such as Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, and Thomas Jefferson, died long ago.

Trump is a populist who is constantly seeking the spotlight and doing and saying whatever will put him in front of a camera or microphone. Any conservative should find some of Trump's behavior objectionable. Anybody who doesn't is perhaps not quite as conservative as they claim to be.

2. Most Democrats and so-called independents are not too bright. That is why most of them became Democrats and independents. Of course any investigation spearheaded by dimwits like Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, and Adam Schiff is going to seem stupid to any moderately intelligent person who has cracked open an old American history book, but this is a party that manages to get people like Hank Johnson re-elected after he expressed genuine concern that Guam might tip over if we station additional troops on the island.

Regardless of whether the hearings seem stupid to us, if Trump is forced to comply with subpoenas for information that predates his presidency, the media will have a field day with the information. Endless hearings on Trump's sometimes questionable business dealings will not help Trump's image. IMO, the framers of the Constitution never intended for Congress to be able to scrutinize a president's entire life before his election, but there are plenty of liberal federal judges who will disagree.

3. Democrats never ran anyone worse than Hillary Clinton in the history of this country. Dukakis, McGovern, and Mondale were all bad candidates, but none of them were crooks under criminal investigation when they ran for the presidency. Certainly, Democrats are capable of fielding another criminal in 2020, but it is unlikely that they will do worse than Hillary.

As far as no Republican being able to touch Trump - two years is a long time. Trump's early declaration that he planned to run in 2020 will certainly make it difficult for a good candidate to enter the race, but it would not be unprecedented. My fear is that Trump will play Let's Make a Deal with Pelosi to avoid an unwarranted impeachment. That's exactly what Bill Clinton did to win re-election and avoid a Senate conviction following his impeachment, thanks to Dick Morris.

Also, in 2020, Trump will not be able to rely on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free media coverage by Fox News. Rupert Murdock's children are much more liberal than the old man and the network is not likely to tolerate Trump supporters turning their shows into free campaign ads the way that Eric Boling, Sean Hannity, and Jeannine Pirro did in 2016.