Susan Collins is a right-wing Republican scumbag who has to pretend she's not a scumbag to gull enough Maine voters into putting her back in office, that's been the sum total of her political strategy, that has been the sum total of her substance. She will vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court knowing that he will do everything he can to put an agenda she pretends she opposes into practice, to overturn Roe v. Wade, to destroy the possibility of universal health coverage, to destroy labor and environmental laws and regulations, to enrich the billionaires and millionaires, to concentrate power into Republican-fascist hands, and to allow Donald Trump and other Republican presidents the ability to break any law with total and complete impunity.
Susan Collins is pretending to believe Kavanaugh's lies about Roe being "settled law" even as both of them know that it's a lie, it's a lie for public consumption, or at least the emission of the news media who know that both of them are lying as they pretend the lie is true. She will vote for him because she really does want him to do all of those things or maybe she is indifferent to him doing some of them, she is concerned only with the power of her Republican-fascist party and her political career. She is a monument of hypocrisy and self-service, an emblem of this time of politics with no honor and no morals.
If the massive opposition to him sways her, it will only be because she calculates that she will lose something she isn't prepared to lose if she shocks the world and votes against him. It would take the biggest campaign of dissuasion yet mounted by Maine Voters to do that and I doubt there is one big enough. She knows she can count on the Maine media to cover her shame, most of the national media, too.
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