Absolutely nothing to lose ...

Despite the threats from the Democrats about what they’ll do if Republicans try to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court before the election, Republicans should just go ahead and do it.  

Republicans really have nothing to lose. Even if they leave that seat open until after the election – a stupid and pointless move – it won’t change one damn thing.  Except to prove once again that Republicans don’t have the guts to stand up to bullies when they absolutely need to.  

Let me explain all the likely scenarios.  

Democrats threaten if they don’t get their way, if they take control of the Senate they’ll immediately move to expand the number of Justices on the Court to add more liberal Justices.  

If they take back the Senate they’ll move to do this anyway, regardless of whether that seat remains vacant until after the election, or Trump fills it now. They’ve been talking about this for years. It’s nothing new. They’ve wanted to do this since FDR.  

Next, they also say they’ll work to eliminate the Electoral College. 

Again, they’ve wanted to do this for a long time.  It’s also nothing new. They want to have the popular vote nationwide determine who becomes President.  That’s only because they’ve lost in the Electoral College while still winning the popular vote – mainly because of California and New York running up the numbers for Democrats.  However, to get rid of the Electoral College would require an amendment to the Constitution, which would take 10 years, minimum.  

Closely related, Democrats want to change the makeup of the Senate.  

They want to add Puerto Rico as a state, even though a lot of Puerto Ricans don’t want that. They also want to make DC a state, which goes against the original idea of government being in a neutral District of Columbia, not a state.  It’s not that they care about the people in either of these places, they simply want to pack the Senate with four more likely Democrat Senators. 

At the same time, they want to change how Senators are allocated.  Right now, per the Constitution, it’s two per state. Democrats (mainly those in more populous states like California and New York) say that isn’t fair. Why should sparsely populated states like Montana and Wyoming have the same number of Senators of, say, California? Shouldn’t Senators be allocated solely based on population? 

Of course not. That’s because, as much as Democrats hate it, we are a constitutional republic made up of states that each have equal representation in the Senate.  

All the threats from Democrats are a smokescreen. If they do – God forbid – keep the House and get control of the Senate and the White House, they plan to do all of the above anyway. 

Now, they won’t succeed because the American public doesn’t want any of this, any more than the public wants open borders and giving illegal immigrants full benefits including free healthcare.  Nor is the public in favor of public-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions. 

Democrats have devolved into the party of shitweasels willing to do and say anything to get and keep power. And to hide anything that might expose their duplicity.  

Their pals in the media help them every day with a hoax du jour, blatant lies, gross misrepresentations of facts, and omission of news that exposes Democrats as shameless amoral liars. Meanwhile, the media refuses to acknowledge anything positive from Trump or Republicans. Good news is all about Democrats; bad news, or barely covered news, is all about Trump and Republicans. 

So if a sitting Democrat decides to support Trump it’s a non-story.  

But if a deceased Republican’s spouse supports Biden it’s front-page news.        

Yet because the Democrats and media are so transparently dishonest, the public isn’t buying everything they’re being told which would probably surprise a lot in the media who live in their own world.  According to a recent public opinion poll 84% of those polled simply don’t trust the media, anymore.  You won’t see that covered in the mainstream media, however.  

Trump and Republicans need to do what they must, fill the open seat, and ignore the Democrat threats. If Republicans lose seats in the Senate because of this, as is possible, so what – most of those at risk were probably going to lose anyway. In some cases, the fight over the SCOTUS seat might help them more than they imagine especially if Democrats repeat their same antics during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.  

Plus, even if Trump and Republicans lose everything this time around it’s really only a short-term set back for a longer-term gain.  

Democrats won’t be able to do what they want: the public simply won’t stand for it. Packing the Court won’t happen. Puerto Rico and DC won’t become states.  They won’t be able to amend the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College, or how Senators are apportioned. They won’t be able to execute the Green New Deal.  Nor will they be able to pull off a myriad of other progressive wish-list items. They may try, but the harder they try the worse it will get for them.

  
What they will do, however, is show their true stripes to the voting public.  Because of that, they will probably take a beating in the midterms two years later.  So at best, if Democrats win the House, Senate, and White House this time, they won’t hold all three for long.

  
Meanwhile, if Republicans hold the line and confirm a new Justice to Ginsburg’s seat, there should be another Trump-appointed Justice on SCOTUS. Someone conservative and young enough to serve for decades.