I just read a Facebook post that said this about Senator Flake:
“What did the leftists promise the traitor Flake to hold up this vote. Doesn’t he understand this will just give more time to the leftists to bring more bogus allegations and diminish this nominee even more? Of course, he does. Again, I can’t imagine why this man is allowed to represent himself as a conservative. Shameful.”
Flake is certainly not my favorite Republican but I suspect this author’s take is precisely the opposite of what just happened.
The Democrats had a plan to stop the Judge Kavanaugh nomination after the hearings were completed. Call for another FBI investigation to delay the vote on Kavanaugh (giving the Democrats more time to denigrate Kavanaugh and creating time for a miracle to happen) and put the Republicans in a bad light, the Democrats said the Republicans were rushing the process and blocking an FBI investigation.
So, naturally, the Republican base wanted the Republicans to rush and have no further investigation. The Republicans surely knew that after so many FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, (1) a limited scope FBI investigation would not turn up anything negative on Kavanaugh, (2) Trump would limit the scope, and (3) not rushing and permitting the investigation would the take the sting out of the Democrats’ complaints (except for the crazies that would not vote for a Republican in any event) and make the Republicans appear to be more reasonable as the Democrats would continue their hysterics.
That being the case, the Republicans wanted another investigation but knew that their base would be opposed. No Republican, especially the ones who wanted to keep their Senate seats, wanted to be the one to call for an investigation. In a tough situation like this, who ya gonna call? Flake!
For more on the approval of the Kavanaugh nomination, see this Facebook post in which there were many comments dealing with the applicability of “innocence until proven guilty” to accusations against Kavanaugh.
