Thank you for taking the time to see what I said.
However, I am not suggesting surrender. I think it would be best to let the Constitution direct the process normally and avoid a contrived process which would result in probably the longest vacancy on the SCOTUS in history. I think that would be best for the political process as well, i.e. the General Election.
The President-Elect will have chosen his nominee well before inauguration on January 20. He would submit it within a few days to the already sworn in ( two weeks earlier ) Senate.
If the Senate has their act together the choice will leave committee and get a full up/down vote by February, a month or two shy of any record.
And who cares anyway? Records were made to be broken, and if the survival of the republic isn't a good enough reason to do this, then what is? All lame-duck President appointees by definition will have a year long delay if the (D)ummies own historical words, plans and deeds are to be believed. This is not news.
I remind you again what the (D)ummies did to Reagan mid-2nd term with Bork, and what they later attempted with Bush41 and Thomas. This is war, you just haven't come to grips with that fact yet.
We would all do well to learn about the extraordinary measures that VP Jefferson undertook to recalibrate the trajectory that FedGov was on by 1797. He all but declared war on President Adams and the mischievous Alexander Hamilton while he was Vice-President. This somewhat unknown 2nd American Revolution ended when he was sworn in on March 4, 1801 and Adams slinked out of town a loser and the (F) party was all but destroyed in the process.
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, but you know what? Depriving a lame-duck President a final Supreme Court pick is not very extraordinary at all. They should be doing the same even if it had been Ginsberg or Breyer who dropped dead. The fact that it was Scalia simply makes it imperative. Defeat is NOT an option.