Thread by @JewhadiTM

The GOP Senate Damn Well Better Confirm Whoever POTUS Appoints via @KurtSchlichter townhall.com/columnists/kur…

“Perhaps it is glib to observe that, at the end of the day, Republicans should confirm a replacement for Justice Ginsburg because they can confirm a replacement for Justice Ginsburg, but there is a lot of truth to that observation.

They can do it because the president has the power under the Constitution to appoint a nominee (I expect it to be Amy Coney Barrett, but Barbara Lagoa is a possibility and a great one), plus because the Senate has the power under the Constitution to confirm said nominee.

And they better do it, because the Democrats intend to crush us if they can, and if the GOP wimps out, our voters will melt down.

The GOP can do this, so the GOP must.

This is the Big Enchilada. This is why we have a GOP president and GOP Senate, to do this one crucial thing.

And a GOP that won’t is a GOP the base has no more use for.
So, save the twisted pseudo-moral arguments for the saps.

They already announced... that they intend to nuke the filibuster, expand and pack the Supreme Court, create 4 new Dem senators out of the new states of DC and Puerto Rico, wave the citizenship wand over 11M illegal aliens, and make millions of Americans felons for having guns –

and that’s just a start. They are committed to a comprehensive plan to lock-in power for themselves forever at the expense of the GOP.
That’s not just speculation. They have said it. That’s their plan.

They are going to launch an unprecedented assault on us with the intention of forever utterly disenfranchising us.
So, why is it immoral that the GOP use power it won via elections to exercise the power given it during those terms of office, especially in an existential crisis?

We keep hearing how important it is for us to be bound by the norms and rules the Democrats are not only trashing but that they have already told us that they intend to further trash.

Let’s assume we’re good little submissives like the Bulwark types and David Brooks and the rest of the establishment toadies demand we be. What then?

Do we gingerly walk into the post-election lawfare ambush that the Democrats have promised with SCOTUS at 4-4?

Since Biden’s puppetmasters have already announced that he can never concede ever, there’s no time when the Demos would say “Okay, you’re legit. You get to appoint someone.” They never have so far.

Remember how, before Party Hearty Brett’s alleged sex gang affiliation became the big issue, the narrative was Trump couldn’t legitimately nominate a justice because he was under the deep, dark cloud of (manufactured) suspicion about RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!?

And if he loses in November, do we just waive the last six months of Trump’s term, which is compounded by how the Mueller baloney made us already give up about two years of his term to that nonsense?

There’s no situation where they will ever agree that Trump is a legitimate president, and therefore that you and I can legitimately have a say in our own governance. We never get their thumbs-up to pick a replacement for RBG no matter what.

In a paradigm of norms and rules, Amy Coney Barrett or Barbara Lagoa would sail through a quick confirmation process (they both just passed one a couple years ago to get on the Circuit Court of Appeals).

Instead, we’ll be subjected to a long line of lies about how the nominee is a religious nut & a secret Nazi & loves Q & how she groped a bunch of timid liberal males who were totally shattered by her vicious assaults in 1981 near the water fountain at George Washington Jr. High.

We either win, or they go down the path of trying to ensure that our interests and rights never again interfere with their unrestrained exercise of power again. And that leads to a dark place.

Appoint and confirm, GOP. Do it, because you can, and because you must.”