Indeed. We must appear fair to the independent voters or it will cost us the House and the Senate. We will never sway the diehard Left to change their ways or think or act reasonably. The only thing we can do is convince voters we have a better path for America and vote them out of office.
Some on here are misinterpreting Grassley's public appeals to the lady to come and give her testimony as a sign of weakness, but he must give superficial service to the "fairness" for the sake of the elections coming up.
McConnell took a tremendous amount of heat postponing the Supreme Court replacement in 2016 to the president elect to choose. That was a Hail Mary pass in hopes that the Republican candidate might just possibly pull out a win, a feat which our President Trump did in fact manage. And that effort gave us Neal Gorsuch on the SC. Rome was not built in a day and these Left-leaning 'Rats will take some time to root out.
Another quote from the speech sighted above. The judicial confirmations are a tremendously important duty which our slim majority has done a bang-up job of to-date:
"If you want to have longtime impact on what kind of country were going to have for the next generation, the single most consequential thing we can do is these lifetime appointments of these men and women to the court that believe the job of a judge is to follow the law,
Oh Bull sh!t.