The GOP is making a Faustian bargain by pushing this nomination through.

Kavanaugh is flawed. Fatally flawed. His confirmation makes none of this go away, and there is still no statute of limitations on the charges he faces in Maryland.

Even Republican women are repulsed by the way Graham and others are treating Dr. Ford in the wake of her testimony. Fox had to fire a dude for calling his accusers ‘lying skanks’ yesterday.

Women are not going to forget this in 40 days.

And there are two other accusers who never got their day in court. Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Swetnick will be heard, one way or the other. Swetnick in particular apparently has at least one corroborating witness, and extremely media-savvy representation. Her charges will likely be aired in the media, since that appears to be the only avenue left. But wall-to-wall coverage of Swetnick’s allegations (most likely on the day before the vote, judging from Avenatti’s timing on announcing the allegations) will only further illustrate just how flawed Kavanaugh is.

The Republicans dancing in the end zone and rushing through an obviously flawed candidate will not disappear. People saw who he was on national TV. People saw the rabid defense of his nomination by men who did not have the guts to confront a credible witness.

None of this is going away. And midterms are some 40 days away.

Republicans weighed the optics of rushing to confirm a judge who is completely unsuited for the job against the electoral backlash that is coming, and decided they’d go for broke. But where they may have fatally miscalculated is that they weighed only those two factors.

I just watched the video of those women confronting Flake in the elevator. That is what they did not consider in their calculation. That will be their undoing in November.

They avoided slitting their own wrists by slashing their own throat instead. They deserve what is coming. All of it.