Some of the Republicans are not people Bush and Rove recruited and helped put in office.
In a knife fight in the Senate do you think we can count on
Chafee?
Collins?
Snowe?
Spectre?
McCain?
etc.
That gives us 50 votes at best for a highly-charged, die-hard conservative nominee. And we need 60 to block a filibuster.
The MSM bias toward the Demcrats gives them a 17 point edge in any election, according to Evan Thomas of Newsweek.
The fraud in most important elections gives the Democrats a 2-5% edge.
We have to overcome these odds to win. It isn't enough to have a majority of Republicans in the Senate, we need "control" and we can't get control without overcoming a stacked deck. And to overcome a stacked deck, you have to play your cards exceptionally well, with savvy, not just convictions.
I blame Bush and Rove for Specter. We could have had Toomey.
The president's base would have stood by him if he had repeatedly sent up nominations who fit the Scalia/Thomas mold, and would have grown weary of both Democrats and RINOs who opposed them. Eventually, the clamor that is now against the president would have been for the president because he would have been demonstrating his absolute insistence on sending up the best possible candidate, without being weighed down by expediencies.
With all the clamor on the right for the last several years about Democrat obstructionism, and the president's willingness to use it to propel Republican victories in two elections, it is impossible to believe the majority that elected Republicans specifically to seat conservative judges would stand by and allow their stalwart president to be defeated by RINOs and Democrats. It may have caused a lot of battles, but this is a war the president could have won. Instead, we get a candidate whose views will not be known for years. She may be great; the point is, we shouldn't have to be guessing.
He kicked a field goal on a first and goal in the beginning of the third quarter. This is bad politics.
That group we couldn't count on in a pillow fight!