Reply #18: I think the disconnect is between impeachment supporters and reality

[dolstein]

The Democrats don't have the votes to impeach Bush, and I see no evidence that running on a pro-impeachment platform will propel the Democrats to majority status again.

Frankly, I think the left-wing obsession with impeachment is symptomatic of its general distrust of democratic processors. The left-wing has spend so much time litigating policy through the courts that they've grown dismissive of, if not outright contemtuous of, the political processes. Gore may have been robbed in 2000, but Bush won a both a popular and an electoral majority in 2004. We had our shot at beating Bush, but we blew it by nominating someone who reinforced all the perceived weaknesses of the Democratic Party.