Dear Democrats: Would you vote for a Republican over Bob Menendez?

 One of the questions Democrats either pose directly to Republicans, or claim they would like to pose, is as follows.  Is there anything, anything at all, that would get you to vote for a Democrat?  Is your loyalty to Donald Trump so strong as to be unbreakable?  Or alternatively, to those who claim to recoil from some Trump scandal, is this (whatever it is) enough to get you to consider voting for some Democrat?  Any Democrat?  If this scandal (whichever scandal this is) remains insufficient, is there anything Trump, or any Republican, could ever do to get you to vote for some Democrat?  Any Democrat?

Beginning with the Access Hollywood tape, Democrats started posing, or trying to pose such questions to Republicans, alternately puzzled and angered that Republicans just wouldn't turn on him, no matter what.  Eventually, the Alabama GOP nominated Roy Moore for a Senate seat, shortly followed by revelations of his regular pursuit of underaged girls.  By a narrow margin, Alabama actually did vote for Doug Jones, but I implored Democrats to consider how issues like abortion weigh on the conscience of those who truly believe that human life begins at an earlier stage.  The left talks about the issue as though nobody actually believes this, thereby willfully misunderstanding their own political adversaries.  Moore lost, but not in a landslide.

In his case, and in so many matters Trump-related, Democrats are aghast when Republicans say something like, "I may not agree with everything he says or does, but I cannot vote for __."  This introduces two questions.  First, when filling in the blank, if you cannot recognize the difference between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden, that is the same kind of lack-of-perspective frustratingly missing from leftists, like those who cannot distinguish between Biden and Trump, but perhaps more interestingly, is there a line that would get such a respondent to say, yes, I'd vote for a non-bonkers Democrat because Trump has crossed it?

And if you are frustrated because you are certain that Trump has already crossed it, then where is your line?

Time for your sanity check.  His name is Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), although hopefully the DoJ can change that to (D-SuperMax) real soon!  Let's consider Menendez.  Skip the news coverage.  Here is the DoJ.  The worst part, I think, is revealing "non-public" information to the Egyptian government, compromising national security interests, for his own financial gain.  In technical, political science terms, this is what we call, "holy shit" territory.

LOCK HIM UP!!!   LOCK HIM UP!!!

So this is your sanity check, Democrats.  List all of the Republicans for whom you would vote for president, if Menendez were the Democratic nominee.

For me?  Most of 'em.  Not all, but most.  McConnell?  My usual line for McConnell is as follows.  When the epitaph for American democracy is written, it will read, "Murdered in cold blood by Mitch McConnell."  I'd vote for McConnell over Menendez.  Mid-freeze.

I believe my usual epithet for Kevin McCarthy is "shitweasel."  I'd vote for Kevin McCarthy over Menendez.  I can keep going, even limiting myself to Republicans I trashtalk.

Now true, I'm not a Democrat, and I'm not a lefty, so my barriers to voting GOP are lower, even though my Trump-aversion is on par with your leftiest lefty, but my point is that this is a sanity check.  If you are either upset or puzzled by Republicans' unwillingness to cross the line and vote against their party just because Trump said or did X, would you?

Take the Menendez test.

Oh, and for the record, I'd vote Menendez over Trump.  In that crook vs. crook contest, Trump is the scarier crook.  I'd then go do the Lady Macbeth thing, and never feel clean again.

Dave Evans, "Insanity Rag," from Sad Pig Dance.