Yep. Specter said nobody who has been filibustered will be supported.
It'll be Edith Clement or that Williams chick from SC. It will be a woman, for sure.
I'd like to recommend Judge Diane Sykes. She is a true conservative, was put forward for US Circuit from Wisconsin by Senators Feingold and Kohl, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed overwhelmingly just a couple of years ago by the entire US Senate. They'd have a hard time explaining why they gave her a pass then and want to filibuster now
The manner in which Miers was sunk gives the Dems in the Senate a huge lift. They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis.
They've wanted an opportunity to derail the process, and it was just handed to them. It would have been much better for her to have failed on a vote where there would be a lot of Democrats on record as having opposed her. Now, the withdrawal will be blamed entirely on the right. And the Dem "support" for her will be there excuse to derail future nominees.
I never heard that quote. Is it in an article somewhere?