JUST TURF THEM OUT.

A Margot Cleveland column that was Instalanched this morning suggests the so-called "moderate" Democrats have a Judge Kavanaugh problem.  "The choice awaiting Democrats is now between confirming Kavanaugh or endorsing a 'grotesque and obvious character assassination' of public servants to achieve political ends."

Perhaps the Democrats were hoping that Our President would withdraw the nomination, or that the judge would get tired of all the foolishness and stay on the Circuit Court. It's likely, though, that the heirs to Dick Tuck have similarly phony allegations to smear anyone on the short list Mr Trump offered as a campaign promise, thus whoever is nominated is going to have to go through Democrat hell.

That is, if there are enough Democrat senators to keep the fires stoked.  Ms Cleveland has a short list of people who ought to be turfed out.  "Kavanaugh’s solid performance during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings eliminated the possibility of a misstep that Democrats hoped for, leaving Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Jon Tester, D-Montana, Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., with the same no-good-option dilemma."  That's also true of Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Cold Spring Shops readers north of the Cheddar Curtain ought consider Leah Vukmir as her replacement.

Perhaps, no matter how the hearing and the votes turn out, what the Democrats have done is antagonize Normals.  S. E. Cupp thinks that's a possibility.

While many of us steeped in the #MeToo movement carefully weigh the very serious accusations against him, deciding to believe the women until and unless evidence proves them not credible, much if not most of America likely sees it differently. They see a decent man, who was investigated six times by the FBI already for other appointments, being tarred and feathered over uncorroborated accusations from decades ago. Sure, that hits male voters hard, but women, too — mothers of sons who don’t want mistakes made as teenagers to define their future — are watching closely.

Republican voters in particular have reason to be incensed, and motivated.

Yes, and a return to those thrilling days of macroeconomic torpor, "you didn't build that," "there's nothing wrong with Fannie and Freddie," and inedible school lunches is not something I look forward to.

Then comes Rush Limbaugh, who last week feared that if Senate Republicans went wobbly, they'd lose their majority because voters would stay home, has this week reconsidered, also arguing that what the Democrats have done is make a lot of people angry.

We may have reached a tipping point. I have thought this on several occasions over the years, but this may be a tipping point. This may be one of those incidents where the vast majority of the American population — and I still believe that a majority of Americans are what I would classifying as decent people. I don’t believe the majority of our country is plagued by massive psychological disorders that have led to a deranged political activism. I don’t think that’s the majority of our country. I think it’s silent. It shows up and elects Trump now and then. You know, things like that happen.

I think they’re livid. I think they’re outraged over this. I think the outrage originally was gonna be at Republicans for caving to all this. But now we’re past that, because one of the things I believe is truly happening is I think fence-sitters and casual news consumers — people that are not ideologically involved like you and I are, people who are not so-called news junkies. I think they’re watching this, and I think they’re just getting livid. I think they are angry as they can be at this, because this episode as obvious unfairness. It has obvious indecency to it.

He notes in conclusion that the anger might be a generalized anger at "Washington," but "Washington" has come to mean Wise Experts, meaning Democrats and their brains trusts, telling people what to do, including eat those inedible lunches.

Back to Ms. Cleveland.

Red-state Democrats will soon have a choice to make. But it is a much different one than they faced just a month ago: A "no" vote on Kavanaugh now is not merely bucking the desires of their conservative electorate, but it is a "yes" vote on vile character assassination.

Donnelly, Tester, Heitkamp, and Manchin must now decide and publicly proclaim whether they are for decency, or smears.

It really doesn't matter how they vote if they're turfed out on general principles. That goes for Senator Baldwin, too.

Now, is there a Maine version of Leah Vukmir to primary Susan Collins?

Five weeks until the votes are counted.