Posted on 10/06/2018 4:58:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
With Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin of West Virginia saying they will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, it appears the confirmation battle is almost over. (Then again, all it would take to suddenly change the calculus would be two Republican senators going wobbly.)
I doubt Democrats want to take any advice at this moment, particularly from someone like me, but hopefully sometime soon, they’ll have a reckoning that their tactics in this fight did not work.
The protesters constantly interrupting the hearing did not work.
Going over Kavanaugh’s high-school yearbooks as if they were something from The Da Vinci Code and trying to ascribe some sinister meanings to teenage slang such as “boof” and “Devil’s Triangle” did not work.
Trying to make Kavanaugh sound like the Bluto Blutarsky of Yale University did not work.
Suggesting that Kavanaugh is some sort of threat to girls on basketball teams did not work.
Portraying his daughter praying for forgiveness for her father in an editorial cartoon did not work.
The era of broad bipartisan consensuses for Supreme Court nominees ended with John Roberts or Samuel Alito. If a Senate Democrat wants to vote against a nominee like Kavanaugh because they don’t like his past decisions, or they think he won’t uphold Roe v. Wade, or they don’t like his work in George W. Bush’s administration, that’s fine.
But when Christine Blasey Ford came forward with her accusation, the Senate Judiciary Committee could have and should handled that information discreetly and privately, without leaking Ford’s name to the press. Committee staff and investigators could have interviewed Ford in California, as well as any other relevant witnesses anywhere else in the country.
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it ain’t over yet, baby
I’ll feel better when I hear 51 ayes!
I’m looking for 53!
He gives them way too much credit.
Evil people are incapable of recognizing the real harm they inflict isn’t on others but on themselves.
That’s a tale as old as recorded human history and its not going to go away anytime soon.
It’s only just begun. Let Ginsberg keel over, and I guarantee these nazi Democrats will have storm troopers in the streets
More to the point 51 to 48 is not a resounding success. We were a heart throb away from it going the other way with the forces of evil dancing and emboldened todo worse. We need to have quick and maximum retribution. Jail the criminals.
We are having a party tonite. God willing. We are going to make some noise. Play patriotic music lowd and ring some bells. Anybody else?
This playbook and its actors should be investigated and prosecuted. Hoping Trump does just that after the midterms, crush kill destroy Will Robinson!
AntiFa
I’ll take a narrow victory over a huge loss any day. A win is a win is a win.
Exactly. This ‘Sexual McCarthyism” gambit was a trial run. It almost succeeded. All they need to do is tweak the timings.
Cry “Wolf!” enough and eventually you will be bitten...I think they pretty much destroyed one of their favorite ploys by overstepping so far on this one...
“Democrats, It’s Time to Recognize That Your Kavanaugh Playbook Didn’t Work”
Democrats, It’s Time to Recognize That Your Kavanaugh Playbook BACKFIRED
I also would like to see a couple extra Dem votes because it would make Murkowski look even worse than she already does with her fake "courteous and gracious" hissy fit because her "No" would not stop him... WAKE UP ALASKA!!!
Maybe but I’m thinking of the Hollywood Access Tapes gambit.
People don’t care. Nothing about brazen sexual accusations shocks them anymore.
The Rats traffic in smut, filth and gutter level trash with diminishing returns.
The media worked 24/7 to demonize Kavanaugh, while they promoted mobs shouting like spoiled children.
Democrats tried to stop Trump and Kavanaugh.
And, I don’t blame them!
Nope! I don’t blame them.
Because....
They’re full of fear, and fear can make people do the strangest and most radical things.
Their fear is that, Trump may get to nominate another Supreme Court Justice, and that would be the most devastating blow of all to them.
Imagine that! 3 SCOTUS justices, put in there by their arch enemy, Trump.
And, think about it, it could turn out to be 4 justices in SCOTUS by Trump. Sickness and old age can take out another member of the SCOTUS. So, democrats needed to stop Trump, and they tried their “at any cost” tactics.
Oh, the humanity!!!
LOL Bluto Blutarsky ended up being a Senator...probably a Dem if the narrative holds.
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