If the candidate you're confirming is worthy of the position, why take exception to having your "aye" officially recorded?

“This isn't about the quality of the candidates or any other substantial issue. This is simply the world's longest, most drawn-out temper tan- trum over losing an election. destroyed decades upon decades of Senate pre- cedent and turned a historically bipartisan process into an exercise in petty partisanship.”; [Democrats]; -Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) whining about being consistently obligated by the other side of the aisle to abide by the Senate's role call voting rule, forced to vote on the record during the con- firmation process.