I think the Repubs should use a strategy that is facially one that is open to ubama’s nominee. Then do a long background check that takes several months and discovers some “troubling” things about the nominee. (i.e., he/she is too young, too old, too tall, too short, too white, too dark, too smart, too dumb, too catholic, too secular, too evangelical, too liberal, too conservative, too everything.) Then, just don’t hold hearings.
Oh, yeah. LIE! Lie the whole time and claim you are really cooperating with the President and fulfilling your God given role as Senators. (Lying should be easy enough for Mitch to do.)
Rinse, repeat until January 2017. This is the Miguel Estrada strategy used by the Dems. Follow it. It works! It is not so unsophisticated that even Mitch can understand it and get it done.
This gives plausible cover to our Presidential Candidate, regardless of who he is.
Oldplayer
The rinos had better NOT cave on this highly critical decision of approving a new SC justice sent forth by odumbo.
He has done more than enough damage to this nation, do not allow him another advantage. Block and delay any of his nominations, no matter how long it takes.