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Some thoughts...

With this in mind, I'd say that confirming Kavanaugh quickly might be the WORST thing the Republicans can do right now.
Instead, the best course of action is to lay low, give as much credibility to the "victims" as necessary, and drag the process out until it becomes more and more clear that the whole thing is a charade and NONE of these "victims" are really willing to testify.

How long do you expect this to last? One-third of the Senate is itching to get home to campaign.

In the meantime, the only thing the Democrats can do is call to delay the process because they already know their "victims" will be easily shredded if they DO testify.

They will need an ongoing supply of victims to support ongoing calls for delay. As it stands now, the calls for delay are hollow and weak.

Republicans don't have free rein here, either. Say what you will, there is still a large less-informed base that sees apparent capitulation as apparent weakness. The more that Republicans "strategically" drag this out, the more they might depress a recent uptick in motivation. We don't want that to happen, either.

In the meantime, the 5-6 weeks of endless attacks in the media from weeping "victims" who were allegedly denied a chance to tell their story to the Senate Judiciary Committee never happens.

I think that happens regardless. It will just move to the whisper campaign, sustained by MSM talking heads who will just churn the story over and over.

I think that equal consideration should be given to the strategy of getting Kavanaugh confirmed quickly, so that our side can get going on the campaign trail to leverage the antics so far. We don't need to see any more, we have seen enough.

Our side needs to begin attacking the 24 Senate seats that Democrats are defending this cycle. Our side needs to hit the road with ads claiming that this is what Democrat rule of Washington would look like EVERYWHERE if Republicans don't turn out in November.

This is what Republicans need to finally nationalize the mid-term elections. They need to run on the visuals of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing and ask some very pointed questions:

1. Do you want to see this repeated when Congress takes up social media censorship?
2. Do you want to see this repeated when Congress takes up President Trumps immigration reform again?
3. Do you want to see this repeated when Congress takes up President Trump's trade deals?
4. Do you want to see this repeated when President Trump nominates future replacements to his Cabinet?
5. Do you want to see this repeated when President Trump gets another Supreme Court vacancy?

We need our PACs out there now posing these questions in contrast to any weeping victims the Democrats may put up over the Kavanaugh confirmation. People are already tired of them.

We need to get our people recessed and on the campaign trail, so this national event can become decentralized again into individual races with individual faces, but with a common theme of not letting the radicals do to the entire government what they just did to Kavanaugh.

-PJ