By then, it is too late. Do you honestly think that if she flubs her answers on the committee, that Republican Senators are going to vote against her? It's not going to happen unless they reveal that she tortures children or something. Once it hits committee, she's a done deal. This isn't a crime, this isn't a court of law, we do not have to assume she is innocent until proven guilty. She has to prove herself worthy to the pundits, the press, and to us, the Republican base. If she fails there, and she is failing, then we're going to pressure her to withdraw before the process moves into the committee. If the pressure is strong enough, she'll pull her name or the President will ask her to. But, by the time she makes it to the committee hearings it is basically too late. There's some pressure we can put in place then, but not very much.
No, it's not too late. Why don't you want the woman to have her say? Because you're afraid you might actually find out that she's okay?
BTW, if you're interested, most surveys have shown that GOP voters as a whole wants her to have hearings. If you consider yourself part of a self-appointed "base," fine. But you were not solely responsible for getting Bush elected - many people worked on that campaign, at least where I lived, and I would suspect that few of them would take your view or that of Bill Kristol as Gospel. Give the woman a chance. If she's incompetent, she won't make it. If she's competent, there's no reason she shouldn't make it.
Do you realize just how much you sound like the instigator of a lynch mob in that last response, # 371? Go and reread it if you don't.
You sound like "If we allow it to go to trial before an impartial jury and the defendant is found innocent, it will be too late to string that SOB up!!!!"