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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans may do the right thing on Kavanaugh--not because it's the right thing to do . . . .
but because it could come back to smack them big time in the fall elections if they don't.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-future-nomination/index.html
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Republicans may do the right thing on Kavanaugh--not because it's the right thing to do . . . . (Original Post)
Orangeutan
Sep 2018
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handmade34
(22,757 posts)1. no
they're going to lose anyways so they might as well get one last asshole in power
FBaggins
(26,757 posts)2. Not a chance
Doing the right thing doesn't win them any races this November... but if they can't fill Kennedy's seat it could certainly COST them turnout across the country.
For good or bad... they're locked in to Kavanaugh.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)3. Never. Their base wants dead women in alleys, period.
Is it possible a couple GOP like Murkowski or Flake or Collins will vote no, maybe, but the rest would vote for kavanaugh if he was on video tape shooting random people in the street.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)4. That video tape
Would be like porn to the GOPee if the victims we're "libtards".