First let me say by all accounts RBG was a brilliant woman who accomplished much in her life and fought hard against cancer for two decades. However I don’t consider her a brilliant jurist. She was a left wing radical who paid no attention to the constitution if it stood in the way of an outcome she espoused.

Next, her supposed death bed wish, was necessitated by her selfish and egotistical refusal to retire when Obama could have replaced her with a much younger and healthier version of herself. However, she refused because she had become a celebrity and a cult figure — the notorious RBG. She was championed on SNL and she began giving partisan political speeches not becoming of a sitting Supreme Court Justice. She loved the attention and adoration too much to step down and so bet on Hillary and lost.. Now she supposedly wants us to correct her lost gamble. Too bad, you gambled and lost and have no one but your ego to blame.

Now I’m not going to go into all the he said she said nonsense about Merrick Garland. It’s not the same situation and even if it was, elections have consequences as Obama condescendingly stated. We elected Trump and a senate majority in 2016 in large part because we wanted to see a Supreme Court that believed the constitution means what it says and if you don’t like it then amend it as had been done 27 times. In 2018 we increased the Republican majority in senate in large part due to the Dems disgusting spectacle in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Trump needs to nominate a Justice and the senate needs to confirm her before the election because the election may well come down to a Supreme Court decision and a 4 – 4 split is worthless. BTW I am amused by the fact that everyone including me sees Roberts as a liberal vote. He’s a gutless coward that’s a disgrace to all Chief Justices.

Before I get into the RINO posturing of Collins and Murkowski and maybe Romney, I want to talk about all the threats from the left. They’re going to burn down more stuff. Go ahead, your present criminality is costing you votes and making it worse will cost you more. Hopefully it will cost you the House.

With respect to their threats to abolish the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court and make Puerto Rico and DC states, that’s nothing new. They have been threatening that forever and if they win control of the White House and both branches of congress they will do it regardless of whether Trump nominates someone. Given that I believe that Trump will win in a landslide, these are idle threats because even if they maintain control of the House and gain control of the Senate, Trump will veto all their crap.

But that brings me to another reason why it’s imperative to nominate and approve someone before the election. It is possible that the Dems regain control of the Senate and that would mean no Trump nominees would ever get approved.

Now for a reality check on the RINO’s. It’s one thing to say there shouldn’t be a nomination until after the election, but it’s an entirely different thing to vote against an imminently qualified woman because you object to the timing. I don’t think Collins or Murkowski have the guts to vote against a qualified woman which is why they are trying unsuccessfully to prevent being put to the test. Similarly, Mitt, I’ve got binders full of women, Romney is a eunuch who doesn’t have the balls to vote no.

One last point, while I was enjoying a lunch of grouper imperial at an oceanfront table and watching the waves caused by hurricane teddy crashing, I was listening to Rush and disagree with his idea that Trump should nominate and then McConnell should immediately call for a vote on the floor and bypass the judiciary committee. I believe that when Trump announces his pick later this week, McConnell and Lindsey Graham should announce a two day judiciary committee hearing for the second week in October. The reason is twofold. First it will give the Dems another opportunity to embarrass themselves trying to take down a woman, and particularly Kamala who will embarrass her ticket. ( As an aside can you imagine Kamala asking the nominee if she got her job the same way Kamala did?).

The second reason is that it would eliminate the RINO’s excuse that they didn’t get to question her. Importantly all the top candidates have undergone Senate hearings in the last couple of years and so there really is no reason for long dragged out witch-hunt.

Lastly, I would like for Trump to tell Amy Coney Barrett that he will nominate her for the next vacancy but nominate Barbara Lagoa, a native of Miami and of Cuban descent. Let’s see the left go after a woman of color and the nomination would almost certainly guarantee Trump Florida.