Bottom Line: The constitution is unpopular with the left...

So as the country prepares for a USSC that will consist of five solidly conservative members, the liberal left is finding every rhetorical argument they can muster to declare the Supreme Court to be illegitimate. This, of course, is not dissimilar to what the liberal left has been attempting to do with President Trump, since he became President.

When the left loses, the left pouts, they become paranoid, and they start to argue that they really didn't lose (per sea) but rather somehow the powers to be conspired to take away what rightfully was theirs (eg: Judge Garland and President Hillary). They then declare whatever and whoever replaced what was rightfully theirs (eg: new conservative USSC and President Trump) to be illegitimate.

Of course, in the minds of the liberal left, if things were "fair" then none of this would be happening. What makes things "unfair" in their collective minds is none other than the Constitution of the United States of America.

The reality is that Donald Trump won the Presidency because we follow the rules set forth by the Constitution. The reality is that we have a USSC without Merrick Garland because we follow the rules set forth by the Constitution. If only we didn't have to follow these pesky rules, then things could be more to the liking of the liberal left.

To add insult to injury, the entire concept of what makes a Supreme Court Justice "conservative" is a reliance on the very thing that the liberal left love to hate. The Constitution. So the more conservative Justices we have sitting on the bench, the more likely it is that the courts will continue to rule that our Government must play within the rules set down by the Constitution.

This simply plays unto itself. The more the conservative Judges and Justices rule within the Constitution, the more those rulings will entrench the Constitutional principals into our society and laws. This ultimately makes it harder for the liberal left to wrench control from the conservatives by means that otherwise live and breath outside of the Constitutional boundaries. Meanwhile, the protections of the Constitution allows for those who play within those rules to continue to appoint additional Judges and Justices that will continue to uphold the very same Constitution.

It sucks to hate the Constitution.

It's no secret that the liberal left and liberal Justices would much prefer a "living Constitution".  In reality, this is little more than an abstract concept where the Constitution should be embraced when it servers your particular interests, but ignored when it doesn't. In the case of the liberal left, this ultimately calls for judicial rulings guided (not by the Constitution) but rather by the opinions and reasoning of the so called "ruling class" of self-determined intellectuals and enlightened ones.

The problem with all of this is that the framers of the Constitution saw this coming. They probably would have agreed with Bill Buckley when he said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University".

This is why they made the determination to spread out the power to the entire country, rather than allow it to concentrate in any one area. This is why they wanted Judges and Justices to have life long appointments, which would insulate themselves from the "politics of the day" and allow them rule based on the guiding concepts of the Constitution. Judges and Justices are not supposed to rule based on the latest CNN Poll, or by what the NY Times editorial staff believes. Judges and Justices are supposed to rule on what is just and right according to the guiding Principals of the Constitution, stare decisis, and common sense judicial reasoning.

The legitimacy of the court system has been under siege for some time. Not because of Justices like Brett Kavanaugh, who are willing to follow the long standing principals of the Constitution. But rather because of Judges who feel no need to be restrained by those principals at all. If every Judge or Justice is simply guided by what they personally believe is "right" or by what ever political movement they believe is valid today, then there would be no long term consistency in our legal system. The constitution provides that backbone of consistency, so that one of our three branches of the Government can insulate themselves from the politics that have engulfed the other two.

It's more imperative today than any time in our Country's existence to have some consistency and objectivity in our Government. Brett Kavanaugh and a five member majority who believe in the principals of that consistency are exactly what we need... regardless if it gets the collective panties of the liberal left in a bunch.