About the Republicans Filling Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat

Now that Utah senator Mitt Romney has come down in favor of processing President Trump's upcoming nominee to the United States Supreme Court to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...who sadly passed away this past Friday...it looks as if the Republicans will be able to push it on through, even though that party, led by Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, refused to consider President Obama's pick of Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016...nine months before that year's presidential election.  That this current vacancy happened much closer to the election...less than two months before...does not matter, it seems.  Yes, the hypocrisy here is beyond belief and I understand the outrage spreading among many Americans...hopefully they'll translate it all into high numbers at the polls and defeat Trump, Majority Leader McConnell, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, and outspoken Committee member John Cornyn...all running for reelection and all extremely two-faced on this issue. As for McConnell's (and the rest of the GOP Senate's) hypocrisy, let me point out that you need to follow their actions and not their phony words justifying them.  Mitch McConnell has been very consistent in his manipulation of the rules of the Senate to push a strictly partisan Republican agenda and to marginalize the Democratic side of the chamber as much as possible.  It's the rationalizations, the words he and his colleagues spew out to excuse their actions, that ring false...not their unstated motivations.  Democrats in the Senate are understandably upset at the actions of their counterparts but have themselves contributed to the rancor and division building up here over the past few decades.  McConnell feels he's on a roll and is unaccountable for what he's doing...only electoral defeat will ever restrain him and he's already said as much during a brief recent rare outburst of honesty.  Am I angry at what's happening here? Not really...I've known Senator McConnell for what the person he is, going on several years, and predicted long ago that he would weasel out of delaying a Supreme Court nomination should a vacancy occur in 2020.  I am disappointed, though, at the so-called "leaders" comprising the rest of the Republican Senate caucus for caving in to him time and time again...including Mr. Romney, who voted earlier this year to convict (and thereby remove from office) the very president who will be deciding on the late Justice Ginsburg's replacement: sir, if you didn't think back then that Trump should remain in office, then why do you think now that he should be allowed to pick the next Supreme Court justice before the American people themselves can render their own verdict on his fitness for the presidency?