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Justice prevailed today: the smear campaign of a good man failed. I am pleased that Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Many of you who read this will not be. I am sorry for that. I don't like knowing that you're unhappy. But, we have differing political/judicial philosophies and they both cannot prevail. So, in all events, some of us must "lose". I'm neither of the left or the right on most things. I follow a "small L" libertarian philosophy: balancing the least possible government interference with a societal need for SOME government. Given that, I certainly would have been more pleased had it been another candidate. Even among those on Trump's list, Kavanaugh wasn't among my top picks. He is far too deferential to government power in some cases. I do not approve. Some of you may have noticed that I didn't comment on his nomination up until a couple of weeks ago. That's because nothing about it excited me. Kavanaugh is a run-of-the-mill conservative judge. But, once the knives came out in the coordinated character assassination that the confirmation turned into, I definitely became interested.

That, more than anything, is why I'm glad Kavanaugh has been confirmed. This wicked attempt by the left and their allies has been thwarted. Plus, anything that pokes a finger in the eyes of the "resistance" and the "social justice" crowd pleases me greatly. I cannot be with them. The left has gone off the deep end and I don't intend to follow. They've declared me an enemy because I don't agree with their ideas. In their eyes, there is no honest disagreement, only the righteous and the evil. If standing up to them is evil, then give me my horns now.

Plus, I was happy to see the Republicans (and then Kavanaugh himself) stand up for themselves finally. Normally, the Democrats call them every foul thing in the book (racist, War on Women, want to kill granny, etc) and they just ignore it or offer some weak-kneed excuse. Not this time. I usually cannot abide Lindsay Graham or Orrin Hatch, but their behavior in the last week made me smile.

Kavanaugh is of the establishment Washington culture and I don't expect him to break much new ground. But, he is far and away better than anyone that Hillary Clinton would have nominated. Why? Because I find that the things that the rightists hope to achieve far less damaging than what the leftists hopes to achieve and the left uses the courts to further its agenda most often. Also the things the far right want are far less likely to be implemented than what the leftists strive for.

My ideal candidate would have been the now-retired Justice Janice Rogers Brown. But, given her age and retired status, she was not to be. Our loss.