1) The very people who most want to overturn abortion may well be the reason that Pro-Life nominees aren't confirmed. This whole campaign against who will or will not be the chairman of the committee, and now the same public outrage over Gonzales, is doing nothing more then energizing and mobilizing the pro-abortion people. Soon the e-mail, faxes, phone calls and letters coming in from that side will be such as great as from the Pro-Life side. All of this BEFORE a single person has been nominated.
2) The scorched earth demands will get people no were. Already there are vocal groups launching similar campaigns about the latest "amnesty" rumors, using the exact same tactic...listen to us or else. Peter just isn't crying wolf, so is John and George. If advocates believe this will work they will not be happy with the results.
Unfortunately, neither will allowing ourselves to be incrementally drawn into LiberalLand like we have for the past few decades by allowing RINOs to drag us down.
I have a little tolerance for rightward RINOs. I have none for leftward ones.