Republicans Shitting Their Pants Over Kavanaugh Klown Show

How worried are Republicans about Brett Kavanaugh’s collapsing nomination to the Supreme Court? About as worried as the rest of us are about Trump. Consider this Wall Street Journal column from Kimberly Strassel (the story is behind a paywall, but this Raw Story summary quotes extensively from it:

[I]t is a fabulous issue with the Democratic base. Nothing would more energize that part of the electorate than a Kavanaugh scalp. It would signal the ‘resistance’ is effective and spur an avalanche of votes for liberal candidates who promise continued obstruction of Mr. Trump’s agenda.

Let’s just state the obvious here: The Democratic base is fired up over Kavanaugh whether or not he is confirmed. It’s too late to pretend either outcome is preferable for Republicans. They stepped on their dicks in selecting a partisan hack with no record of success at anything when they could have nominated a female forced-birther and avoided all this. Back to Strassel’s demented screed:

Republican voters? Oh yes, the base is furious over the Democratic treatment of Judge Kavanaugh. They are angry over the theatrical and uncivil hearings. They are riled up over this late and dirty Democratic hit, the releasing of an accuser’s letter months after it was first obtained. But listen to those base voters on Twitter, on radio, in public forums. They are prepared to release most of their rage over any Kavanaugh defeat on the Republican Party. One of their abiding complaints is that GOP politicians too easily succumb to liberal tactics. It is among the most-cited reasons they voted for Mr. Trump—that (for better or worse) he doesn’t back down.

And here we have the idiocy of GOP thought leaders made manifest: That the least rational loudmouths on their side represent anything more than a fraction of the electorate. You can’t fix stupid, and Republicans have stopped trying.