These folks are dogs in the manger and yearn for EVERYONE here to be as miserable as they are. They aren't just masochists, they are beyond that term. It's the beat me/whip me/make me bleed from every pore crowd.
I, for one, am very happy. I was concerned for awhile that we would not see even one SCOTUS retirement with 43 in office. I believe we are about to see the reason the '04 election was so important.
No less a LIB Icon than James Carville said, and I quote, "America's about to get a civics lesson" to Tim Russert on Sunday morning after the '04 election. Mary Matalin just had a wry smile on her face.
Carville is slime, but he knows his politics.
This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out no matter who is nominated, so why not go for it? I KNOW that is the way Bush thinks, so I predict a true conservative...
In many ways, this is much better than Rehnquist retiring. Let's get it over with now; BEFORE the '06 elections, if the D's win this battle, they will certainly lose the war. I would NOT want to be a D Senator in a "Red" ("Blue" prior to 1996) State if the D's trash a great, yet conservative candidate.
One down, two to go... (Kennedy, Ginsburg...)
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