Well, clearly we have a very different view of the role of advise and consent.
I believe that our nation would have been greatly disserviced over many decades had the Senate engaged in your philosophy, because the blatant politicization of the Judicial branch of the government would have undermined the Republic.
RATS continue to play with fire on this. For this great experiment of America to continue from one generation to another, we must preserve the fabric of judicial independence and settle elections at the ballot box, not at the courthouse door or inside the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The politicization of the courts has been a terrible phenomenon since Bork. One place where this mess has taken us is that the candidate of the Democratic party for President of the United States in 2000 actually sued his own country to become president, mindful that he would have a sympathetic judiciary to help him along this journey.
I fail to believe that this type of precedent is good for our Republic.
If elections settled everything, then what's the point of dividing government into various branches with all of the checks and balances between them? Might as well just have one election for President and give him the keys to everything.
Elections are just the beginning of the process, not the end.
The politicization has been one-sided. The failure of the Republicans to stand up for principle when voting for or against nominees to SCOTUS is appalling and has led to the likes of Breyer and Ginsburg on the Court. Every Republican Senator who mouthed their belief that the Constitution should be interpreted as written and as understood by the people at the time of the ratification of the various provisions who voted in favor of either Breyer or Ginsburg violated not only their promises to the people who voted them into office but also to their oath to uphold the Constitution.