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In reply to the discussion: Mitch McConnell Wakes Up To Nasty Surprise: 16 GOP Senators Defect And Will Meet With Obama’s SCOTUS [View all]Cosmocat
(15,424 posts)Because it isnt their idiots that he is appealing to.
It is the "middle."
Polling overwhelmingly has the country in favor of having a vote, and that this issue is effecting how people are going to vote senate races in the fall because of them not holding a vote.
Part of it is because he made a right leaning nomination, the MIDDLE sees that.
Had he picked a clearly progressive nominee there would be some substance to their opposition in the minds of moderates, and less supoort for a vote and less impact on the election in the fall.
He knows and anyone w any common sense knows these jackasses would not hold a vote for the reanimated corpse of ron reagan.
So, his choice was to pick a clear progressive that had no chance to be voted on that did nothing for nothing other than allow the right to have some justification to their trying to jam a progressive down their throats bullshit.
Or.
Pick a right leaning cnadidate that had no chance for a vote who tipped public opinion greatly against the rs in this matter and gave the dems a better chance of getting the senate back.
Its pretty pretty obvious what is better ...