(09-29-2018, 12:00 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(09-28-2018, 10:27 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Not really, emotion doesn't override reason for everyone the way it does for you.

Emotion is based upon what we see and experience throughout the course of our lives. I haven't led as sheltered a life, apparently.

(09-28-2018, 08:40 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(09-28-2018, 04:23 PM)FBT Wrote: Ultimately, not a single vote is going to be changed by this sham of an investigation.  This is just a delay tactic that the democrats have played.  Flake isn't a man of conscience.  He's a guy who hates Trump, and will do anything he can to undermine him.  He's not running for reelection because he wasn't going to win based on that Trump hatred.  This is just his parting shot at Trump on his way out the door.

Even if the FBI goes and discovers that every accusation was manufactured for political purpose, the democrats are still going to oppose it and vote no at the end of the day.  That's what hyper-partisan looks like.  The funny thing is that the evil republicans usually are more deferential when it comes to SCOTUS appointments.  I'm being nice there.  They simply don't have the sack to pull the kinds of stunts democrats do, so you see justices like Kagan or Sotomayor getting republican votes.  You won't see that from democrats with Kavanaugh, yet those two are as ideologically leftist as it gets.

I think it can be more accurately characterized as the democrats have a moral and ethical flexibility that you don't see often on the right. It's no secret they view those who don't ideologically agree with them as inferior. Concocting lies and deception to take down a foe, especially one who doesn't agree completely with their most sacred conviction of abortion, is not seen as a lapse of integrity, but an act of honor. It's not enough to prevent Kavanaugh from being confirmed. His esteem, personal and professional reputation, and above all, his family, must be annihilated for the sake of ideology.