So far they are on script BUT the battle rages on...they voted to move it out of committee to get ready to slam the vote after the 7 day FBI investigation...Kavanaugh kind of shot himself in the foot with his "Diary" as it ironically places him and two others at the same party that the victim so clearly identified...by name...oops...add to that his constant references to the fact he really likes his beer...his
classmates at Yale are painting him as a something of a heavy drinker...his Diary reinforces the drinking habits as does his Yearbook...his whole persona was one of arrogance and deception...he cannot seem to answer truthfully when asked very specific and direct questions(and my take is he won't because he knows if he does he will expose his true agenda...I.e. Flip Roe v Wade and give Orangeass a free pass if impeached).
If the women and men can keep up the pressure I believe this nominee can be booted...but the pressure has to be direct...too many Rebublibrats are in dire straits come November...that is where the leverage will be most effective...
Hopefully the FBI can find enough to throw him into fire.

Thoughts ?

I'm sure you're right. It's all just practical tactics to get the result they want. What we have learned is that the Republicans are now only care about getting the results they want - whatever the cost. In my view the cost of the current course is very high. All good principles of morals are being eroded. The US is loosing respect and credibility all over the world because of this and the narcisisstic showmanship of the president. Except for a minority of US voters who successfully used the semi-democratic US election system to get Mr. Trump into office - nobody in the whole world wants the current president to continue and even less be reelected.

I called both my Senators - they are Dems - but I requested they do all they can to talk some sense into the gop members they think MIGHT be swayed by Ford's testimony, the woman Avenatti is representing and the third woman willing to talk about Kavanaugh.
I hope there is the kind of push back we saw for the healthcare mess.