Should Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS Nomination Continue?

[Machiavellian]

thismeintiel said:

DarthMetalliCube said:

Can't wait for this goddamn circus to be over, one way or another.

While I tend to lean towards being skeptical towards Ford, I really just wish the Repubs would have just nominated someone else with a seemingly clean record. At least then if random sexual assault allegations popped up AGAIN out of nowhere, it would look far more fishy than it does now.. Or, if Trump were smart, he'd just nominate a woman next, and one far more conservative than Kavanaugh, who's supposedly fairly moderate, just to troll the dems.

Though I guess the Dems think they're going to win the midterms so that's precisely the point of attempting to block this nomination, because then they'd be able to hold the seat empty until their "inevitable" win in 2020 and they can throw another liberal on there. The irony is the backlash I think will only sway more people from the dems to the repubs for the mids. It's certainly repelled me even further from them.

To the Dems, there won't be a judge that is clean enough. Or shows the right demeanor. They let Gorsuch slide because he was a Conservative judge replacing another Conservative judge. Kennedy's replacement tips the scale in the Reps favor, at least in their mind, even though he is more moderate. If they actually lose the mid-terms, and RBG steps down, or (God forbid) has health issues, her replacement will face even more garbage, no matter how squeaky clean they actually are. It'll make this circus look like a walk in the park.

And you are right. This may cost them the mid-terms. It's energized the base and frightened some moderates with the "guilty until proven innocent" stance the Dems are taking. Polls are slowly sliding towards the Reps. 

Wasn't Garland clean enough.  Even the GOP thought he was a good justice but they wanted to pick their own and wanted nothing from Obama.  I notice how people only see political maneuvers from the party they do not support. 

As to energizing the base, I kind of lol at that.  If they were not energized already, I wonder why this would make a difference.  The most vocal isn't always the majority.  At the end of the day, people who vote are going to vote and people who do not probably will not.  I highly doubt this will spur any people who do not vote compared to people that do not.  It will still go along partisan lines as always.

Last edited by Machiavellian - on 05 October 2018