The REAL question for Thursday's Kavanaugh hearing -- Who governs America?
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If this decent human being, with an exemplary record as husband, father, friend, and judge can be smeared and maligned, who is going to be capable of surviving the left’s ruthless dishonesty and willingness to lie, intimidate, and destroy?
If the left can succeed in vilifying someone with Judge Kavanaugh’s integrity and record, they will be in a position to say to President Trump, “nominate a moderate who is acceptable to us or we will smear your next nominee into rejection, too.”
Republicans should have no doubt what is at stake in the current desperate, despicable, dishonest smear campaign against Judge Kavanaugh.
The goal of the Thursday hearing will have nothing to do with seeking the truth. When there is no corroboration for 36-year-old memories, how can the truth be the goal?
If the truth is not the goal, then on what should Republicans focus?
Put simply, there is no alternative to confirming Judge Kavanaugh.
Put simply, there is no alternative to confirming Judge Kavanaugh.
Left-wing radicals understand that this nomination may be an even greater threat to their goal of a radical America than President Trump is.
Kavanaugh is 53 years old. If he stays on the Supreme Court until he is Justice Ginsburg’s age, he will still be writing opinions in 2050. This potential 3-decade shift in SCOTUS power is what has galvanized the left into frantic levels of desperate character assassination.
Republicans should be under no illusions.
If they allow Kavanaugh’s confirmation to be defeated by this kind of character assassination, they will have rewarded a level of hatred, vitriol, and viciousness that has never before been seen in judicial confirmations.
If they allow Kavanaugh’s confirmation to be defeated by this kind of character assassination, they will have rewarded a level of hatred, vitriol, and viciousness that has never before been seen in judicial confirmations.
Given the left’s willingness to malign even the most honorable nominees, what candidate would let his or her name be submitted? Candidates would have to know that many left-wing activists would be willing to lie about them to destroy their confirmations.
My prediction is the Democrats will verge on hysteria and employ relentless character assassination for the entire day.
And then the question for the Democratic Senators in the states President Trump carried in 2016 will be: Do you stand with the president or with the left-wing fanatics the people of your state repudiate?
There is now no alternative to confirming Judge Kavanaugh if the politics of denigration are to be defeated.
There is no clever moderate compromise. There is victory for decency and the rule of law, or there is victory for hysteria, mob rule, and the maligning of decent people.
There is no second option. There is only victory or defeat.
