The Republicans inside the Beltway, and many outside as well, are forever mystified by the tactics employed by the "loyal opposition". Like statuary of deer, they remain frozen as the Democrats and their media allies do donuts all over their lush green lawns, defecate on the flower beds, and toss beer cans into the bushes. They seem constitutionally incapable of understanding their enemies.
Take the case of Judge Kavanaugh and Mrs. Ford (I will not call her Doctor as the media has been doing; that is customarily reserved for M.D.'s, not Ph.D.'s and is being used to inflate her "gravitas" in the public mind Oh, and Doctors of Psychology are often viewed as patients who worked their way to trustee status..)