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Do you seriously think JRB wanted to be lynched publically? To be put through a yearlong war and have every piece of your life shredded only to have your name rejected is not something very many people would want to do. Why should we think she or any other rocksolid Conservative go through that??

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[You Dirty Rats]

Do you seriously think JRB wanted to be lynched publically? To be put through a yearlong war and have every piece of your life shredded only to have your name rejected is not something very many people would want to do. Why should we think she or any other rocksolid Conservative go through that??

It is certainly understandable if candidates decided not to go through that. I believe the bigger issue though is we are unlikely to even get that lady an up-or-down vote.

The other option is to nominate someone that has been through bitter political fire and that the Senate can't filibuster -- a Republican Senator like Jeff Sessions. However, IMHO we need to save that bit of strategery for replacing a vacancy left by a liberal like Stevens or Darth Vader Ginsberg.