So what's your strategy for getting your dream candidate nominated AND confirmed? I guess that's my point.
Easy:
- Pick a senator like John Kyl, Jeff Sessions, or Orrin Hatch
- Pick a former senator like Fred Thompson
- Pick the former Solicitor General, Ted Olsen
Any of these would be easily confirmed, and all are reliable conservatives.
Edith Jones, Diane Sykes; in short, a conservative who has gone through in the last 5 years without being filibustered.
Well, sure as heck wouldn't let Harry Reid make the pick.
A fair question. You can do it through salesmanship. Pick a good product and sell it skillfully. If you can get American voters to love the product, the votes will be there.
I don't see how it's so difficult to "sell" an originalist to the American public, MSM aside.
I expect 80% of the U.S. citizenry were not happy with the emminant domain (Lelo?) decision, at least the 80% who understood it. Even Libs are opposed to "big business" having legal power to take away private homes.
How hard can it be to paint Souter et al as opposed to private property rights? And Scalia et al as champions of liberty? Throw in Janice Rogers Brown, and point out who's side of this debate she is on.
Good grief, it seems it's always about whether or not lib women want to kill their kids in the womb, to both sides of the political spectrum. Seems to me there are other issues to fight (and win) on. If JRB happens to be pro-life, pro-2A, so much the better, eh?
I can't believe we're not hammering this property rights thing down the throat of every lib pundit and "newscaster", in this SC nominee issue. Unless of course.... half the pubs actually supported the Lelo decision.. argh.