text: Gorsuch is clearly extremely well qualified for the position on the Supreme Court. His confirmation will merely restore the balance on the court that existed prior to Justice Scalia's passing, as there will again be four conservatives, four liberals, and Justice Kennedy who tends to be socially liberal and occasionally conservative. Democrats should save their political good will, if indeed they have any, for the next time in case a liberal justice dies or retires. That is when they will need it because that is when there would be a true swing in power on the court, similar to last year when Obama nominated a liberal to replace Scalia, threatening to swing the balance to liberal. But if they want to burn political capital for nothing this time around and risk losing several more seats in the Senate in 2018, by all means do it!