We just have to hope and pray the 'wobbly' Republicans realize exactly how important this is. (The ones who long to hobknob with Michael Isikoff and his ilk.)
"that wobbly Republicans realize how important this is."
They realize it's important to the base, I think. But the base isn't important to them. Nor are conservative judges. Nor is Bush's constitutional authority to appoint judges.
What matters to these people is good relations with their liberal colleagues in the Senate. That and not being called names by the truly powerful. And the Republican base is not the truly powerful.