'I'm a conservative!': Max Boot shuts down Trump-lover Steve Cortes as he tramples CNN panel on Kavanaugh

Washington Post conservative commentator Max Boot does not like the direction the Brett Kavanaugh hearings have gone. He said so on CNN Thursday night, during an interview with Don Lemon in which he criticized the partisanship of the process and said the FBI should have done a more thorough investigation into rape allegations brought forward against Kavanaugh.

"There is a sense that this process was rigged," Boot said. "And that just feeds into that partisan anger which I think is very debilitating for our country."

As Lemon then attempted to ask Boot a follow-up question, he was interrupted by Trump-lover Steve Cortes, who wanted to turn the debate to race.

"Steve, hold on," Lemon said.

Cortes then got a chance to talk and derailed the conversation by suggesting that Democrats are making it about race.

"I wanted to ask Max, because I've heard this point endlessly when they're criticizing people like Senator [Orrin] Hatch [who yelled at protestors Thursday)," he said. "They keep mentioning that the senators on the committee are white. What does the racial component have to do with this? ...There's not a race component and yet liberals constantly keep bringing race into this."

"I'm not a liberal. I'm a conservative. I've been a conservative my whole life," Boot said.

"Well, you sure sound like it," Cortes said. "Everyone involved in the case is white. There's not a racial component to the Kavanaugh hearings... there's a grievance overlay, effectively, where they want to inject race, even into issues where race doesn't have relevance."

Cortes then tried to turn the topic to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) being Latino while his Democratic challenger, Beto O'Rourke, is not.

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