If Roberts' name is withdrawn, which Bush will almost certainly refuse to do, he would likely be replaced by an even more conservative nominee who would ultimately be confirmed. That won't help the left.
I can't see Bush withdrawing Roberts' name, and I can't see any Republican senators withholding their support. If anything, this latest disclosure has greased Roberts' nomination by softening opposition among liberal Democrats. Today the left has one more reason to be confident that Roberts will drive left just as Kennedy and Souter did.
If we end up with another Souter, it will be despite repeated clear warnings from a few discerning conservatives.
The last thing I want to mention here is the ludicrous posturing of this work as pro bono work. The gay rights lobby is NOT the penniless widow on the corner facing eviction from her home. The gay rights lobby is powerful and exceptionally well-funded. This work classifies as "pro bono" only because the firm Roberts was with was simpatico with the broader social engineering goals of the left. The decision to provide pro bono assistance in this instance was for reasons of politics, not compassion.
Let's say the Dims filibuster, how much pressure will be spent by a split right to push to break it. The way some on FR on talking, they are hoping the Dims will Filibuster.
GREAT Post! Agree 100% -- especially your comment that "The gay rights lobby is powerful and exceptionally well-funded. This work classifies as "pro bono" only because the firm Roberts was with was simpatico with the broader social engineering goals of the left. The decision to provide pro bono assistance in this instance was for reasons of politics, not compassion."
In this Pro Bono(?) case, Roberts could have and should have declined to take this case, if he had any moral or ethical qualms at all about helping to advance the pro-gay agenda....apparently he does not. I think the conservative majority in this country has just been handed another Kennedy-Souter stealth moderate-liberal in the form of John Roberts. Pres Bush has revealed himself as a stealth moderate now after winning 2 POTUS elections by pledging to rein in judicial activism with Scalia-Thomas type jurists and instead nominating a questional nominee like John Roberts!
""If Roberts' name is withdrawn, which Bush will almost certainly refuse to do, he would likely be replaced by an even more conservative nominee who would ultimately be confirmed. That won't help the left.""
that is not how the left thinks...seek and destroy one nominee at a time, no need to think ahead