[Sgt_Schultze]

Oppo research should be done on the groups and the tormentors who will raise the questions of the nominees. The sheer number of whiners on the left requires that many will have their own ethical problems. Perhaps large enough to taint their groups.

[Torie]

The White House would not have a "secret" alleged paper trail in hand to withhold. Barnes lost it on that point. The Bolton analogy is errant.

[oldbill]

Bush may have learned the lessons of Bork, but don't count on the spineless RINOs having learned a thing. The Spectors, Grahams and Hagels will carry the Dems water and Bush will lose unless Frist can impose some discipline on that collection of egomaniacs.

[Mulch]

And the conservative groups that fought for Bork's confirmation were overmatched by their left-wing opponents.

Barnes gives democrats way more credit than they deserve. With the all major news outlets supplying the steady drumbeat of negativism just as they're told to do by their puppet masters, the democrats don't need to do much more to stymie the Republicans on many issues.

[no dems]

One more thing to realize: Ted Kennedy is not the force to deal with that he was almost 20 years ago when Robert Bork was nominated. The guy's brain is so pickled from alcohol he can hardly make a complete sentence. He can't even pronouce "proliferation" and a score of other words.

The political climate and picture has changed in the past 20 years. No, the libs and the Dim-o-rats will never do again what they did to Bork.

[Bob Eimiller]

I want to know what the ridiculous David Souter nomination by George H.W Bush taught the present administration...

BTW... I think George Herbert Walker Bush is in the bottom 25th percentile as president.

He was a disaster and the reason we ended up with a Clinton presidency.

[Kenny500c]

Okay, have him shave the beard and nominate the worthy Judge Bork.

[river rat]

"Even Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, a moderate conservative,.....

I lost Fred's thought string at that!

Warner has been a "Hollywood type cast" characterization of a Senator - since he got to Washington...

A Bozo with limited intellectual or conservative resources.

Remember folks -- this is the jerk that married Elizabeth Taylor in the last 70's -- divorced in the early 80's after about 5 years..

Semper Fi

[tkathy]

an untelegenic beard I'll never forget the closeups of Bork's awful facial hairs that looked more like pubic hair than a beard. Bolton should get rid of his bizarre white facial thingie.

[Tribune7]

There has been a couple of changes worth noting, however. Namely, the Dems controlled the Senate and had a monopoloy on the media.

That's not the case now.

[Gunrunner2]

God himself could be nominated and the democRATs would cite the devil in opposition.

Anything to stop Bush, that is the RATs credo.