To Impeach or Not to Impeach, That is the Question

I've been thinking about this question all day.  My approach to this is actually to try to convince myself why NOT to impeach.  The most cogent argument that I can come up with is that the American people knew that Donald Trump was a misogynistic, narcissistic, egomaniacal person when they elected him to become President of the United States.  Nothing that I've seen in the impeachment proceedings has been inconsistent with this knowledge.  In fact, he's being impeached for behavior that is 100% consistent with his personality. When he was running for President, he encouraged the Russians to find dirt on Hillary Clinton.  This is a man who is brilliant at obfuscation, who thrives on creating chaos, who shows no loyalty to anyone but himself or to those who are complete sycophants.  From that perspective, we had an election three years ago and Trump was elected President.  The people who voted for him, knew the kind of person he was and chose him anyway.  Those same people are vehemently defending him today, as they should.  They say that impeachment overrides the will of the voter, and they are correct, from that perspective.  Looking at the situation that way, I can conclude that I would vote to NOT impeach.

Of course, there's another view of the situation.  What is impeachable?  What does impeachment mean?  Impeaching a person is about calling into question their integrity.  Plain and simple. The Democrats have plenty of reasons to question Donald Trumps integrity.  And even for those who don't agree with that, they have every right to question Trumps integrity.  Our country has a constitution and a system of government that clearly allows for this process to proceed.  The Republicans also have every right to disagree with the process and to complain about it.  That, in fact, is what our country is all about.  While impeachment, by definition, is about calling into question the President's integrity, the House has nothing to do with convicting the President.  That is for the Senate to do.  We can guess the political ramifications of the House voting to impeach. Will it upset voters?  I don't know.  Does it matter?  Only time will tell.  Ironically, we've heard some Republicans, and possibly the President himself, promote their desire to have the process move to the Senate so that other witnesses, such as the Bidens can be called to testify.  Great!  I'd actually like to see that.  There will be no opportunity for Republicans to complain about the process in the Senate.  Hopefully, we'll hear all of the witnesses state their cases with a minimum of the political nonsense that we've been hearing during these proceedings.  Looking at the situation this way, I would certainly vote TO impeach.

One last thing.  What are the clear facts?  We know that President Trump asked the Ukrainian President to announce that he was investigating Biden.  We also know that he didn't care if the investigation actually took place.  Doesn't really sound like someone who was really concerned about Ukrainian corruption, but, in fact was more concerned about smearing a political opponent.  Guilty.  Is it enough to impeach? Why not?