I’m sure they would have taken issue with the nominee’s ideological orientation. What we’re seeing here is the White House putting forward someone who’s lying and who doesn’t display the kind of “calm and collected and rational” judicial temperament that conservatives usually reserve for white middle-aged male nominees.
Somehow modern Dem Presidents never end up nominating the likes of Clarence Thomas or Harriet Miers.
The Federalist Society came up with him. Per the person from that organisation featured in the piece, Kavanaugh is simply where the dart Il Douche threw landed.
Not on issues like reproductive rights. But in terms of demeanour a guy who seems to throw beers and punches at people well into adulthood doesn’t meet any reasonable definition of “mild.”
This is all about making sure someone unsuited to the bench doesn’t get get a lifetime sinecure on the highest court in the land.
