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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That’s an excellent video from start to finish.

I trust you understand when I used infantry, I made it clear she was not intending to be used in a political game. But it’s impossible for her not to be both a tool and a target here. This is politics and politicians are not generally honorable.

Her motives are beyond reproach. Those of many in the warring parties, who intend to use and abuse her, are not. Hence the unfortunate war analogy which, given Grassley’s recent hardball response, seems more and more apt.

It sounds like you're thinking of her not as infantry but as cannon fodder, but the whole point here is we ought not to do that to her. I think there are some Dems, notably Feinstein but also Gillibrand, for example, and, indeed, almost all the Democratic women Senators, who are on board here, and doing their best to respect what she is dealing with. Let's call these folks the decent people. I think there are others who want to take this nominee down at any cost. Let's call these folks the operatives. If the nominee isn't taken down, the operatives are going to blame the decent people. But frankly the decent people are the ones whose careers I want to advance, because some things shouldn't be partisan.