Kavanaugh's Confirmation

by Rod D. Martin
October 6, 2018

Let’s be honest. Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed today, creating the first 5-4 conservative majority since 1937, because:

1. Despite many of our very real concerns, we voted for Donald Trump, even while our so-called “betters” ridiculed us and called us morally deficient (many of them voting for the utterly unprincipled Evan McMullin); and...

2. Donald Trump kept his word, as he’s done on every single policy position he ran on insofar as he’s been able, and far more than most of those “betters”; and...

3. Even if he’d lied about everything, taking a chance on him was worth it, because some chance is always better than no chance; and...

4. We all know Jeb Bush, or most other Republican candidates in the last 25 years, would have caved to the Democrats and withdrawn the Kavanaugh nomination at the first sign of trouble. Because they were small, pathetic cowards in a time when we need a fighter.

If the Republic is to be saved — and that’s still far from certai…