Republicans Have A Simple Choice: Vote To Confirm Kavanaugh Or Get Slaughtered In November

The Federalist ^ | 24sep18 | Sean Davis

[vannrox]

The rubber is about to meet the road for Senate Republicans. They have a simple choice: they can vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, thereby ending the baseless and unsubstantiated Democrat- and media-fueled smear campaign against him, or they can kiss House and Senate majorities goodbye for the next decade, if not longer.

In case the election of one Donald J. Trump was not enough to compel the D.C. Republican establishment swamp creatures to wipe the muck from their eyes and see what’s happening with their own constituents, Republican voters have had enough of feckless do-nothings whose careers consist of little more than not doing everything they promised to do.

Give us the House, the Senate, and the White House, they said, and we’ll repeal Obamacare. Give us power across the major elected branches, and we’ll secure the border, they promised. With a Republican president in the White House and a Republican majority in the Senate, we’ll confirm the most conservative Supreme Court nominees you can imagine, they claimed.

Yet here we are. Obamacare is still on the books, and a wall is still not on the border. The only compelling reason left for Republicans to continue voting for Republicans is the confirmation of conservative jurists to fill the federal judiciary. The confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was nice, but it changed nothing, as he replaced the staunchly conservative Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch’s appointment merely maintained the status quo.

Anyone who thinks pulling the Kavanaugh nomination after a last-minute smear campaign whipped up out of thin air by the Democrats would be anything but an extinction-level event for the GOP is not a serious "political analyst" and is probably trying to engineer that outcome.

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 24, 2018

Republican lawmakers have to understand that their voters have zero patience for their excuses for not doing what they promised. It’s why they elected Trump in the first place. Republican senators failed to repeal Obamacare after promising to do so for years. That was strike one. They’ve steadfastly refused to secure the border, let alone build a barrier along the most porous sections of the nation’s border with Mexico. That was strike two.

A refusal to vote to confirm Kavanaugh in the face of a blatantly obvious Democrat smear campaign, orchestrated in concert with a compliant and obscenely partisan national media, will be strike three, and there will be no more at-bats. I have spent a career working in and covering politics, and I have never witnessed the kind of anger among rank-and-file GOP voters generated from a combination of the unsubstantiated Democrat attacks on Kavanaugh and the flaccid response of emasculated Republicans.

The stakes of the current battle over Kavanaugh are far bigger than a single Supreme Court seat, and Republican voters understand this, even if their elected lawmakers don’t. It’s bigger than Roe v. Wade, Obamacare, or Second Amendment rights. Democrats are trying to turn the rule of law on its head, to destroy the presumption of innocence — not for themselves, mind you, but for anyone who dares to oppose their totalitarian political agenda.

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) made clear on CNN on Sunday that Kavanaugh does not deserve to be presumed innocent, notwithstanding the lack of any corroborating evidence of any of the allegations made against him, entirely because his political ideology and judicial philosophy do not align with those of the Democratic Party.

When asked whether Kavanaugh is entitled to the presumption of innocence, Hirono said, “I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases.” Translation: he is guilty because of what he believes, not because of anything he’s actually done. Laverentiy Beria, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s most trusted police inquisitor, who famously declared, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime,” would surely applaud the totalitarian sentiment underlying Hirono’s statement.

If Kavanaugh is not safe from reputation- and career-destroying smears, no one is. Not you. Not your husband. Not your son, father, or brother. If they can destroy Kavanaugh, they can do it to anyone you love and trust, regardless of any mountains of facts or evidence to the contrary.

The Republican base understands this to its core. But do Republican lawmakers? It’s not clear that they do, especially given the way they allowed themselves to get played by nakedly political activists who hijacked Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings over the weekend.

The Democrats have one goal: to prevent the nation’s elected Republican government from doing what it was elected to do. That’s the whole purpose of the Robert Mueller probe, which to date has not produced a shred of evidence that Trump treasonously conspired with the Russian government to steal an election from Hillary Clinton. It’s the reason for the lawless and anti-democratic “resistance” within federal agencies, which gleefully uses its power and total lack of accountability to the electorate to wreak havoc on our nation’s institutions.

Democrats refuse to accept that they lost the election fair and square, and they refuse to accept that Trump and Republican lawmakers have the right under the U.S. Constitution to nominate and confirm Supreme Court justices. The last week has proven that Democrats will do anything, whether it’s spinning up federal investigations on false premises, sabotaging legal processes within federal agencies, or cooking up vile smear campaigns to prevent the confirmation of the next Supreme Court justice, all the way to 2020 and perhaps even beyond, if necessary.

Republican voters know exactly what’s happening right now, and they’re out for blood. The only question left is who they’re going to punish. If Senate Republican leaders don’t immediately end this entire charade and schedule a floor vote for Kavanaugh, their heads will be on the chopping block.

An electorate already disgusted with consistent GOP failure to honor its promises is not going to lift a finger to keep the same do-nothings in power. If they’re going to stand by and allow to Democrats to do whatever they want, there’s simply no point in electing Republicans again.

Conversely, if GOP lawmakers show that they do have a spine and are no longer willing to let the other side get away with reputation murder, they might actually keep both their House and Senate majorities in November. As Trump has shown, even discouraged Republican voters are willing to stand behind somebody who’s willing to stand up for them.

It’s time for Senate Republicans to stand and be counted. If they do the right thing, they will be rewarded at the polls. If they continue to cower and allow themselves to be bullied by tinpot totalitarians like Chuck Schumer and Mazie Hirono, then they’re going to deserve everything that’s coming to them in November.

[vannrox]

Republican lawmakers have to understand that their voters have zero patience for their excuses for not doing what they promised. It’s why they elected Trump in the first place. Republican senators failed to repeal Obamacare after promising to do so for years. That was strike one. They’ve steadfastly refused to secure the border, let alone build a barrier along the most porous sections of the nation’s border with Mexico. That was strike two.

A refusal to vote to confirm Kavanaugh in the face of a blatantly obvious Democrat smear campaign, orchestrated in concert with a compliant and obscenely partisan national media, will be strike three, and there will be no more at-bats.

[vannrox]

Republican voters know exactly what’s happening right now, and they’re out for blood. The only question left is who they’re going to punish.

[Doogle]

Once again,the spineless can’t stand up for themselves or the American people....

[goldstategop]

Its do or die time.

If they don’t vote to confirm Kavanaugh, the GOP elephant will become extinct.

People have had enough of the excuses for not doing this promptly.

[qaz123]

I have to disagree with all of this.

Yes, we will be enraged if they pass on Kavanaugh and cave.

But, none of us(I hope) will be so petty that we’ll turn Congress over to Pelosi and Schumer. For if we do that, it’s over. They control everything and will impeach the President at their first chance. Then they will set their sights on Pence. For them, it’s complete victory or nothing.

If that happens then get ready for the US to go the way of the DoDo, as we know it.

[familyop]

Yes. They were elected to confirm a good Supreme Court justice more than anything else. If they won’t do that,...

[Alberta's Child]

When you see this sort of thing out there, it actually makes much more sense to drag this process out for weeks.

The Kavanaugh confirmation becomes a much more potent political weapon for Democrats after the farce ends and he is confirmed.

When was the last time you even heard a public statement from a Democrat Senator -- other than calls to postpone the confirmation vote indefinitely? This only works for them if the confirmation vote is extended until AFTER the election. The worst-case scenario for the Democrats is one where the Republicans keep stalling the process to "hear from all of these women" while mounting a parallel PR campaign in support of Kavanaugh.

[StoneRainbow68]

-—Yes, we will be enraged if they pass on Kavanaugh and cave.
But, none of us(I hope) will be so petty that we’ll turn Congress over to Pelosi and Schumer.——

It’s not that GOP voters will vote for Democrats to “punish” Republicans. It’s that enough of a percentage of them will be so disgusted that they aren’t motivated to vote at all, which would end in the same result.

Conservatives want to be motivated to vote FOR something. Not just vote against something AGAIN.

[PeteB570]

You’re right - We might not get Obamacare repealed, the wall built or conservatives on the Supreme Court.

[frnewsjunkie]

In other words... back Kavanaugh... back Pres Trump... get off the left’s fence and remember who sent you there and why. Speak out FOR this man who has been attacked so viciously! and stop coddling those women who are up to no good!

You men who don’t recognize a vengeful woman, had better get a clue. Giving her what she wants in step #1, will bring on many more steps you will not want to grant.

[cdcdawg]

The Republicans hate their own voters. We just aren’t vibrant and diverse enough for them.

[qaz123]

In total agreement, but those very same Conservatives have to understand what the alternative is.

Turning the government back over to the Democrats, at every level. And I’m sure they will come back with a vengeance. Any and everything that has been gained in the last two years will vanish. Out of control immigration, gun control, you name it, it will happen.

[qaz123]

The only thing about what you wrote that concerns me, NOW, is the Supreme Court of the United States.

The President is modifying immigration as we type. He’s reduced the numbers of refugees and is getting ready to do so, again.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/stephen-miller-wins-again-haley-other-foes-excluded-immigration-meeting-n910776

The President has signaled that he’s going to go after the ability to access welfare, for immigrants.

The President is reducing the number of H1B and H2B visa’s, with his biggest obstacles being RINOs and the GOPe.

Give that man a Conservative Leaning SCOTUS and I’m betting that we’ll see Birthright Citizenship, finally challenged and eliminated. When that happens, there is no more pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow(or on the North side of the Rio Grande). Ergo, they’ll stop coming.

That happens and we don’t need a wall, although it’ll still be nice to have.

As for obamacare, he’s allowing insurance companies to sell ‘non compliant’ plans if they want to and it’s slowly going the way of the DoDo. And, it wasn’t his fault it’s still around. We can blame Arizona and Maine for that.

He gets a Right Leaning SCOTUS and the Republicans maintain control, you’re looking at President Pence and then who knows, after that.

[Alberta's Child]

I think the GOP is playing this perfectly right now.

Let's look at where things stand. I think I'm pretty solid on these as damn near verifiable facts:

1. The Democrats have lined up all of these so-called "victims" with accusations against Kavanaugh.

2. None of them, however, is willing to testify before the Senate without a set of ridiculous conditions that no governing body would ever meet.

3. The Democrats have been preparing for months to turn this into a major political battle -- aimed at swaying moderate/independent women voters.

4. As part of Item #3, the Democrats and their media wing have probably lined up hours of interviews with these "victims" ready to roll out and cry on national TV as part of this PR campaign. But none of these women will ever testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee because their stories are not credible.

Me theory is that the Democrats have been pushing for the nomination to be postponed indefinitely, but that's not what they really want.

What they really want is for the Republicans to confirm Kavanaugh quickly, so they can roll out their team of "victims" on 60 Minutes, the Today show, Loser Holt's Dateline NBC, etc. ... but they can't do this until AFTER Kavanaugh is confirmed.

If you are Mitch McConnell, what is the best strategy for thwarting the Democrat plan? Lay low, give as much credibility to the "victims" as necessary, and drag the process out until it becomes more and more clear that the whole thing is a charade and NONE of these "victims" are really willing to testify. In the meantime, the only thing the Democrats can do is call to delay the process because they already know their "victims" will be easily shredded if they testify.

[xzins]

Why are we sure the rino senators want to confirm Kavenaugh? They are establishment before they are constitutionalists. They could be trying to TANK this nominee for the globalist progressive open borders oligarchs who will reward them handsomely.

[familyop]

"Yes, we will be enraged if they pass on Kavanaugh and cave."

Who is enraged? Being afraid of Americans who oppose the main part of the coup wouldn't be a healthy way to react. Look at the bright side! Think of what would follow as an adventure! :-D

[PeteB570]

Your post had a lot of “The President” - not much of “the Senate”.

Your post also mentioned the SC. We’ll see if the Republicans can come through on that.

[StoneRainbow68]

-—In total agreement, but those very same Conservatives have to understand what the alternative is.——

I think most of them do understand.

But one problem is that the margin between a “blue wave” and avoiding the “blue wave” can be razor-thin. Apathy and disgust only has to peel off a small percentage of voters who would have voted GOP but stay home instead. We have to work hard to avoid that.

Confirming Kavanaugh would go a long way. You know how motivated conservatives can be if BK is already on the Court, and they think there’s a good chance Trump will replace Ginsburg in the near-future, too?

But if BK is sandbagged and the nomination fails, it’s too easy for some people to fall into defeatist thinking: “Why bother trying to change anything? It never works!”

[familyop]

Judge Kavanaugh is the easiest proper, honest judge to confirm to the Supreme Court. He’s as clean as they come. This is the last chance.

There’s no worry about impeachment of our President, because a two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required for conviction. And besides they wouldn’t dare.

President Trump does need a good Supreme Court.

And those harpies who are falsely accusing Kavanaugh are the reason to insist on confirmation. We cannot allow the takeover of our Judicial by them. That would amount to the final takeover of our government.

Realize that tens of millions of Americans have already been severely damaged by false accusations and other mischief by those baboons. We know them more than the establishment that raised them is aware.