Rush also anticipated McCain's fence-sitting (as he did on Hannity tonight). But the important thing is that the Republican Senators will have to decide whether they will be strong on the Founders' Constitution or cower to the Far Left's twisting of it to fit their special-interest agenda.
Clearly, this is a good choice. The Radical Left is whining that the President should have picked a "consensus" nominee, or someone who represented "mainstream" America.
Well, a "red state/blue state" map clearly shows that mainstream America is not Hollywood, Northeastern Liberals, People for the American Way (a misnomer), ACLU, Planned Parenthood, or any of the other gloom and doom groups opposing a candidate who believes in the Founders' Constitution.
Out there in the "mainstream" of America, this nominee's responses in the hearings will be well received, clearly understood, and will not be seen to be dangerous to their liberty.
"We, the People" are not sheep to be herded by the "drivers" of the mainstream media, Hollywood, and liberal special interests, but citizens to be respected as the "only KEEPERS" of the Constitution, in the words of Justice Joseph Story in his "Commentaries on the Constitution."
Justice Story:
"§ 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
Your right and it comes down to this. Who shares the values of the majority of American families? Alito or Ginsberg? Alito is no radical and the democrats know it.
"Rush also anticipated McCain's fence-sitting (as he did on Hannity tonight)."
We need not be worried. John McCain wants to be President, and if he comes down against Alito (barring something very unforseen), his chances of winning the GOP nomination are zilch. I think that McCain, in his ambition, will be the one who puts Alito over the top and squelches any possible filibuster.