I agree, I'll hold off my opinions until I watch the hearings. As for a lightning rod nominee -- there is no way the pubbies on the senate would vote for such a nominee. The enemy of known conservative judges to the USSC is not the democrats (they are a known no vote), it is the spineless republicans -- starting with Frist, and including the likes of Snow, Collins, Chaffee, Dewine, Voinivich and others. The conservative pundits are doing themselves no good by screaming before the hearings.
That's exactly right.