I really wanted to blog about yesterday's Kavanaugh news,
but for now I just want to say two things:
1. Susan Collins is either stupid, dishonest or incredibly
naive. Come to think of it, she may be all three. Her speech yesterday touting
Judge Kavanaugh's court record and "lack of corroboration" concerning
the sexual assault charges completely ignored three other important issues --
his temperament, his partisanship and his disrespect for members of Congress.
She may not believe Dr. Blasey Ford, but there are plenty of other reasons to
vote "no." She must have been napping when he testified the second
time because she missed the mark entirely.
2. By voting "yes," Joe Manchin has alienated a
large voting bloc in West Virginia who will probably vote for no one in next
month's Senate race. That would seem to benefit his opponent, Patrick Morrisey.
Manchin apparently believes that Trump supporters in deep red West Virginia
will thank him for supporting Kavanaugh by re-electing him, and he could be
right, but that doesn't make sense to me. He's now lost a lot of votes from
liberals and moderates and I don't know how many angry women, and it seems to
me that if Trump supporters do vote, they're more likely to support Trump's man
Morrisey than DINO Joe Manchin. He could have voted "no," in my
opinion, and not lost those voters who were going to vote for Morrisey anyway.
Only time will tell how many more voters he has lost.
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