Whilst Trump et al scramble every which way to bend the rules in their own favour, to pragmatically secure patronage and position and power with little regard to principle, to pervert every noble impulse and precedent that the once lauded 'land of the free' ever set afoot to enshrine and defend and uphold...
...another Republican of a previous generation sacrificed his own highly esteemed political position (as then Majority leader in the U S Senate) to unseat a (similarly immoral, nay amoral) Commander-in-Chief, and ultimately failed in his noble quest...
But at least he 'died' trying...
P.S. Weirdly, only (2) months earlier Colin Powell, another would-be challenger to then President Clinton, also kicked the bucket...
Post-postscript:
Apparently my 999th (or, more likely, 1,000th) blogpost over my eight blogsites (since starting blogging back in mid-2012).
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