Long, Drawn-Out Trials Are No Way to Convince Anyone of Anything | Eastern North Carolina Now

In this day and age 24 hours of talking will not make your case.

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Publisher's note: This post appears here courtesy of the LifeZette, and written by David Kamioner.

    If either side in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump believes they are benefiting from the non-stop talkfest they are currently engaging in they are sorely mistaken.

    The current schedule calls for 24 hours, 24 hours!, of incessant gabbing by the Dems, broken up over three days. Then the GOP gets a crack using the same timeline. 48 hours of political chin-wagging in total.

    Yup, 24 hours of continuous talk from politicians on both sides will do the rhetorical trick, ya think? Oh it may convince people of something. It'll convince them for the need of a noose or a revolver loaded with one bullet after having to endure the kind of torture that would have made WWII Japanese POW camp guards swoon with envy.

    It's a given that pols love the sound of their own voices. But they don't generally love the sound of the voices of other pols. Does either side actually think that after hour upon hour of verbal assault a senator is going to rise and cry out, "I see it now! I change my vote!"

    Not very likely.

    This bad sequel to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" cannot be designed to sway voters either. What sane voter wants to hear 2 days of a political diatribe even if they agree with half of it?

    If you've watched the total proceedings to this point, as I have, then you've seen the Dems make the same points over and over again. The GOP lawyers will no doubt do the same thing. Thus, the worse indictment of this court schedule?

    It's bad television.

    The only possible motivation is to draw out the process. It'll benefit the GOP, as a tired public will grow more weary of impeachment with every passing day.

    It'll benefit the Pelosi-picked House managers because it gives them national exposure and hours of free advertising.

    It may also benefit Biden and other Dem candidates by keeping senatorial candidates Warren, Sanders, and Klobuchar stuck in the Senate while other contenders merrily hop across Iowa.

    It is 2020 and the average consumer and voter attention span is that of a flea. Thus 48 hours of excruciating political theater must be seen as a tad too much.

    The Dems seem to want to take up every second of it with never-ending argle bargle. When they get their shot in a couple of days hopefully the GOP won't be so self-obsessed
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