One of the biggest advantages of being the majority party should be the ability to get your judicial nominees approved. The Republicans who are against the nuclear option are being way too "fair". The Democrats are cutthroat: if they held the majority and the nuclear option was needed to get their judicial nominees thru, they'd use it in a heartbeat.
Maybe we should give the Democrats an ultimatum and a deadline---and then use the nuclear option if they don't comply. Maybe that would make some of the "wobbly" six or seven feel better about voting for it.