>>Somehow they've come to the conclusion that there mission is to 'stop Obama' no matter what the cost to the country or the people in it...

So it seems. There's some quite good discourse out there, including some gems like this:

In addition to Grassley, there are four other Republicans still serving in the Senate who voted against Garland back in 1997: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Richard Shelby of Alabama, and Mike Enzi of Wyoming. While their opposition was also about the size of the D.C. court and not the nominee himself, GOP leadership is already busy rewriting history. "This is an easy one. Both our leader and judiciary chairman voted against him when he was confirmed before and it's a clear recognition by the White House that we mean what we say: There will be no confirmation," a senior GOP aide told Politico. "If they thought we were going to cave, they would have put up a much different candidate."

The last sentence sums it up. It doesn't matter who the nominee is: not to oppose is to cave. Whether the moderate voters who usually determine the result will see it that way, is another matter.