…I went to look up what I wrote here on these boards about Al Franken when it came out that one of his accusers went on TV to claim that President Obama was born in Kenya. I wrote this:
There were plenty of people in that thread who did demonstrate the kind of hypocrisy that you are talking about. But there were plenty of people, myself included, who did not. And thats the thing. Enough of the “liberal side” stood by our values and we held the line. We didn’t let the hypocrites win. They said “Al Franken should go” and they forced him out.
We don’t see any of that happening here.
Nominations to the Supreme Court are such a rare and important thing that one would expect the Republicans to have taken the process a fuck-load-more-seriously than they have done. There were plenty of other people they could have nominated that would have sailed through without this drama. The only reason the nomination is being held up is because it appears that Brett Kavanaugh seems to be a bit-of-a-dick. If they had done due diligence: if they had nominated someone like Gorsuch we wouldn’t be having this discussion now.