Collins’s big speech: Thank @MichaelAvenatti for helping to steer her towards supporting Kavanaugh hotair.com/archives/2018/…
History will remember, incredulously, that in the end the two most forceful advocates for Kavanaugh’s confirmation in the Senate were … Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins.
It looks like Collins set this up so that she could send Kavanaugh off to the Court with the biggest boost she could muster. She knew everyone was hanging on her vote and would watch the speech.
She also doubtless knew that the image of a moderate woman Republican with two other Republican women in-frame would be a strong visual counter to liberal talking points that women are united against Kavanaugh.
So she seized the opportunity to deliver a point-by-point refutation of all of the arguments against him, replete with some justified score-settling. She dinged whichever scumbag it was on the Democratic side who outed Ford by leaking her letter to Feinstein to the media.
And she dinged the Avenatti-sponsored Swetnick fiasco, suggesting that it focused her on how important the presumption of innocence is.
She wasn’t really undecided on Kavanaugh, it seems, or if she was her indecision was substantially eased by the FBI report. She used perceptions of her indecision to generate public interest, then took advantage of that interest to lobby the public for him at length.
All righties wanted was a yes vote. Instead they got a pretty ringing endorsement. What a stunner.
And now the “Good People” must make her pay: 
The circus ringmaster is annoyed too, of course:
