It's not a choice that I am posing, it is one I am repeating -- made by your likes right here on this thread. Please keep up. Here's what I think my friend ... leaders lead. If we cannot confirm solid individuals to the Supreme Court who share our values and ideology with a 55 Republican majority, and the veep's vote if necessary, we don't deserve to be in the majority, and we won't be. In 1981, the Reagan tax cuts were passed because Reagan went to the moderate House conservatives and won them over. You have to make the effort. You have to make the case. You have to be motivated for the fight. If Specter's a problem, why did Bush save his reelection in the Republican primary? Why is he, even now, threatening a conservative mayor in RI from running against the pathetic Lincoln Chaffee? Why do these things -- we are told to keep a majority. And then you and your likes complain about this majority, and Specter and Chaffee. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy and a foolish political strategy that will result in defeats -- and surrender on such crucial issues as this Supreme Court nominee. That's my view, take it or leave it (you'll leave it, because you're into "trust me").
What offends me, is that I don't want mediocrities on the court, of any stripe. It is an insult to the institution.
The Reagan tax cuts were pushed through by Jack Kemp. Reagan rejected the 30% cut, and they finally resolved the difference by going for a 10%, !05, 10%, which is less than the 30% Kemp-Roth called for. I loved Reagan I don't think you can really give him all the credit on this one.