Posted on 10/19/2005 5:57:14 AM PDT by Brilliant
Apologies for my nasty remark...
And you're correct, I want her to withdraw before the hearings begin. Consider these scenarios:
1) At the hearings she is brilliant and receives overwhelming partisan support which leads to confirmation in the Senate.
2) At the hearings she invokes the Ginsberg rule and does'nt answer any questions. The blowhard senators (Spectre, Biden, Kennedy, etc) make her look unqualified by asking questions about complicated supreme court precedent that will probably never come up in her tenure on the court. She advances out of committee with NO vote or a negative vote, just as Robert Bork did. She loses.
If (1) happens, great. If (2) happens, what does Bush do now? You are never as strong after a defeat. Can he now win the fight with a Janice Rogers Brown? Doubtful.
P.S. I hope you're right about her.
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