re: GOP has handled K. Brown Jackson the wrong way

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The best way to beat the left is just to go along with everything they do. That'll show 'em.

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I disagree. The strategy in my OP is NOT for everything.

It should be deployed only in special cases. This is one.

Do you really think the media would report on this clever strategy of exposing her nomination to ridicule or that much the public would catch on to the subtlety if they were so exposed.

The story line would be "All agree to the excellence of the nomination and the value of role models on the Supreme Court."

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It should be deployed only in special cases. This is one.

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Don't give an inch to the left. You don't have to make a fool of yourself, but agreeing is giving an inch where they will run a mile. I think they've done a good job making lemonade out of lemons and they've even managed to remind everyone how crazy the Dems were on Kavanaugh and Barret.

She’s easy on pedos, she should be kicked out of the hearings. Trash.

I somewhat agree -

BUT it seems to me that a lot of the GOP rage was directed at the feckless DEMOCRATs on their hypocrisy and outright thuggery during their questioning of all GOP appointees.

Trying to "take down" this - or any nominee from POTatUS is not going to bear any fruit. The only thing they can achieve is more ridicule of the mendacity inherent in any DEMOCRAT political action.

You are misunderstanding the politics of the situation.

There is a 99% chance she is confirmed and if she wasn't there will be another one right behind her. The only thing that will take her down is something REALLY bad that was missed in vetting and that's very unlikely. On that you are correct.

The thing is though you are looking at this as a way for the GOP to try to win voters. That's not going to happen, not in the way you think. This is about not LOSING voters. There are millions of conservatives that are furious about how Trump's nominees were treated and even more that are pissed about CRT and judges that think the law is just whatever they want it to be.

If the GOP Senators don't ask tough questions and at least put up a fight they will lose part of their base and show that they don't care. People voted for them because they want someone to represent them and not to sit back and take it. Also not fighting will only embolden the Dems and MSM further. You have to fight for every inch.

The best example of why your strategy doesn't work is RBG. She was nominated after Bork and Thomas when Clinton got in office and the GOP overwhelmingly confirmed her to try to show that politics shouldn't be a part of the process. She was a radical but was given a pass. The result? Dems kept getting more radical and RBG became a Saint to them, 90% of Americans now think she was the first woman on the Supreme Court and she is treated like some great legal mind even though she authored no significant opinions.

You have to fight. Fight on issues where you have the high ground but you have to fight.

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Yes, similar idea. Turbocharging a bad idea is sometimes the best way to destroy it.

Example: Let's say the left wants the income tax rate to 90%?
Agree with it and deploy it as quickly as possible. The idea would be dead in a few weeks, maybe days.

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Or the Covid relief stuff under Trump, which has caused massive inflation that we're feeling today. That killed BBB and we're likely not even feeling the inflation from the Biden printing yet

Dick Durbin is a DICK!

The media is going to write their own copy regardless.

If she gets contested, it is “GOP makes this a circus!”

If she doesn’t get contested, the next shitbird nominee gets articles of “Why did they not get the Brown Jackson treatment?”


I’d rather point out what a horrible fricking idea it is to put this nimrod on SCOTUS than wave her along for some good press.