In Defense of Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans Shouldn’t Descend to Democrats’ Level
By Nicholas L. Waddy| September 21st, 2018With some glee, Democrats are celebrating what they presume is the demise of President Trump’s nominee to be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. The allegations against Kavanaugh by Professor Christine Blasey Ford are indeed serious, but in the end they will fail to derail his confirmation.
Kavanaugh will soon be on the court, and in the meantime Republicans should avoid overreacting to the political gamesmanship in which Democrats are engaged. Most of all, they should avoid smearing Ford, whose motives are ultimately as unknowable as are the events which transpired on that fateful day 36 years ago.
In opposing the Kavanaugh nomination, leftists and Democrats have shown a willingness to use inflated rhetoric, false and misleading claims, ruthless character assassination, and the disingenuous tactics of delay and obfuscation. In short, liberals seem to believe that the complexion of the Supreme Court is so important that they should stop at nothing to prevent Kavanaugh from taking a seat on the bench.
The ways in which Democratic senators talked down to Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, twisting both his record and his past remarks, was a new low point for decorum and respect in the United States Congress. For a long while, commentators have remarked that our commitment to democratic norms and civil discourse is eroding. The fight over Kavanaugh has been an obvious case in proof of that point. Democrats spoke early in the process of their desire to “Bork†Kavanaugh (referring to their successful campaign to defeat Reagan’s pick for the high court, Robert Bork, in 1987). In truth, Kavanaugh has been handled much more roughly than Bork ever was.
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