Read it again if you’re confused (Senate procedure isn’t easy for normal people to understand).
BY allowing Murk to pair her vote Daines insures that there will be a quorum for a vote on Kav.
Would the Dems and Murk all walk out to prevent a quorum? I don’t know, but his opponents have done very bizarre things to stop him.
Pictures of a female (the Dems would insure that it’s a female) being dragged in to vote would ensure that Kav would be branded as the “anti-woman Justice” forever.
I thought that pairing was done for someone “across the aisle.” But maybe I misunderstood and can be done either way.
But what about Joe Manchin being there and voting for Judge Kavanuagh. Wouldn’t that provide the 51 Senators present to vote (if the wedding Senator stayed to vote before leaving). And then also Vice-President Pence on hand for extra measure. Wouldn’t that be the right way to go about things?
Either way, if they literally dragged in a man or a woman, it would be used as a smear.
Either its the evil white men abusing a woman, or the evil white men ganging up to stick it to women.