What baffles me is why they didn't go with another, maybe even more conservative judge like Gorsuch after everything.
They just had to fight that one until the bitter end.

This is really inappropriate for a moderator  

Aside from Trump worrying such a move would make him look weak, there's no guarantee that they'd have been able to push through the appointment before the mid-terms, or that the Republicans will have control of the senate after them. He probably thought it was better to install a moderate conservative rather than risk having to put a moderate liberal on as a compromise with a Democrat-controlled senate.

Whether the accusations were true or not (and if you ask me, there was not enough grounds to reject him solely based on the accusations), his behavior seemed inappropriate and saying things like "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" is very unbefitting of a judge.  They had the power and a solid majority to put any judge they wished but they went through through with this anyway.

That opinion is petty and authoritarian.

Not that you'll change my opinion or I'll change yours, so let's leave it at that.

I'm in the Chicagoland area and just glad I'm not living in the city itself right now. We're an EXTREMELY liberal and passionate city, not quite LA level but close. I got a buddy who's living in Chi Town and he's been hearing protests on the constant lately (I think some of it's worker strikes but still), from his work to his apartment. Would drive me nuts..

When the Democrats gain power they should just stack the court.

I was about to come in a debunk this but you got it covered Poe. Pretty much everything you just said. 

You guys ever tire of reaching.

The limit was changed the exact year they said this took place. Maybe he was unaware. Or remembering incorrectly. You know the thing you give Ford too much of a pass on. 

Actually, Ford's best friend did state that initially. But, thanks to pressure from a Miss McClean she was compelled to "clarify" her statement. I don't know why you think he lied. He read her statement out loud at the hearing.

It didn't. She described a party near the clubhouse that took place in a two-story house. The event in the calendar happened at a townhouse 11 miles away.

As for the last two, at least 4 of his buddies from school backed him on those definitions. Unless you were actually there and would like to refute that? 

There's no guarantee that any vacancies will come up whenever the Democrats next control the White House. Plus, realistically a president only has their first two years to nominate a Supreme Court justice, since they almost always lose control of congress after that (the only president in recent times not to do so, believe it or not, was George W. Bush).

Got me.. They're sure not winning people over with their tantrums, character assassinations (ie "Susan Collins is a rape apologist!!!1") and hatred born of a mob mentality.

Events like this make it more clear why myself and many others #Walkaway.

These guys are endangering themselves of becoming not just a minority party but a small, insignificant one at this rate if they keep it up.

Dems need to return to level-headed debate and and temperament. drop the Victimhood Cult, extremism, and outrage, and get back to the issues of the middle/working class. THEN they'll start winning people back, maybe even myself. But I don't see that happening in my lifetime at this point. Unfortunately for them, there are two small parties that DO focus more on the real issues and are more in touch (Green and Libertarian) that I'm sure would be more than willing and able to step in and fill the void left by the increasingly nutty Democrats.