First: The most qualified person - woman or man - is Amy Coney Barrett.
Second: She is a known to the base and very well thought of. This begs the question, Why have to waste time introducing someone new with such a small window of opportunity?
Third: She can take the attacks which is something we don’t know about any other woman being considered.
Fourth: Trump already has way more Latino support than he won with last time. There is no political urgency in picking a Latino woman.
Fifth: As a strongly adherent Catholic Barrett will bring out Catholic voters an important bloc.
Sixth: Her pro-life position will thrill those concerned with ending Roe v Wade and they will vote accordingly.
Seven: Because Barrett has two adopted children from Haiti, the Democrats will question her about them with their real aim of opening questions about John Robert’s illegal adoptions of two children from Ireland. That sets the stage for an impeachment attempt by spiteful Democrats who will do anything to bring on a new hearing to fill his empty seat. This won’t work and will actually backfire, but it will be the issue the Democrats will use to try to re-gain the Senate in 2022. If it is successful or Roberts resigns rather than have his family publicly destroyed, Trump gets to pick a clean new Justice and we end up with six real conservatives.
The krats are going gonzo gorilla on Trump's first nominee no matter who it is. Send out a sacrificial lamb to waste their political capital on, then nominate Barrett who will have an easier go at it. Catholics have more reason to vote for Trump and a Republican Senate if her nomination comes after the election.
You forgot the eighth and best reason for nominating Amy Barrett: She is the choice of the Washington Republican establishment, she is one of them. It’s so easy to fool conservatives.
Barrett is not actually the most qualified. Very little time as a judge at all.
Barrett is not mainstream Catholic, but Lagoa is.
Most American Catholics are not slaves to the dictates from pope—even when he’s a commie like the current one. Barrett admits that she is.
There is no one single judge that fits the total bill here so we must pick someone who checks the boxes that most conservatives feel need checking and judge Barrett appears to be that person. The last perfect person was strung up on a cross at Calvary. So folks please don’t try and crucify Judge Barrett just because she failed to check one box you favored out of all the boxes available.