[indianrightwinger]

"I think they can isolate Bush and isolate the Republicans and hurt them with swing voters and then wait to see how it plays out," says Doug Schoen, a Democratic strategist who worked with President Clinton.

Can some one say wishful thinking?

[johnmecainrino]

Bush did a great diservice in naming Roberts to replace Renquist.

Roberts was picked to replace O'Conner and he was already going to pass for her seat when Renquist died.

Roberts replacing renquist is wrong on many ends. He is a moderate while renquist was a conservative. O'Conner would have been off the court if he had let Roberts replace her. Her vote is going to be costly on a lot of key cases now. Alito would have been replacing Renquist and the dems couldn't have used the replacing a moderate vote. Also there would have been much more pressure to move the nomination along quicker with only 8 justices leaving the potential for a 4-4 tie. I am so sick of O'Conner's name for both these nominees. He should have got her off the court when he had the chance.

[adamsjas]

Judge Alito's lengthy legal résumé and cool demeanor could also undercut the Democrats' campaign.

If he has half the cool that Roberts showed at his hearings, the Dems are in for another huge disappointment. And today's hijack of the Senate is hot likely to play well either.

In short, the midterms may not bode as well for the Democrats as they like to think. True there is a historic tendency to lose seats at the mid-terms, but this time, with a little careful planing, it might be the Dems that lose them.

[goldstategop]

Its laughable. The Democrats dare not go near the substance of their opposition to Alito. That's why they launched that Rule 21 diversion in the Senate yesterday. Alito's nomination is literally killing them. They cannot be who they really are and discuss their beliefs honestly with the American people. So they revert to type. Whatever you think of conservative ideas, they beat liberal non-ideas. All the Democrats can do is delay, whine, and obstruct. They have have no positive agenda and that's exactly where their opposition to Alito won't help them in 2006.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[kittymyrib]

Bill Nelson (D-FLA) needs to be defeated for encouraging our dependence on Saudi oil by refusing to allow drilling 125 miles off the Atlantic coast in FEDERAL waters. Every Floridian pumping gas at 2.40/gal needs to vote against him.

[q_an_a]

the DemocRAts think that by 2008 we will be out of Iraq and that another Carter/Klinton time will be at hand. There will be no national security problems for the campaign and they can elect an America first (save the environment, save social security etc. etc.)person instead of a security first person. They are so wrong.

[KC_Conspirator]

Democrats are hoping to use his conservative record as a federal appeals court judge in Philadelphia to drive a wedge between Republicans and swing voters who could be critical in next year's midterm elections.

Right, and then we come to the issue of gay marraige, which has been imposed by liberal judges.

[eyespysomething]

the 2006 elections? How long do they think people's attention span is? And if they delay it that long, they will be viewed as even more obstructionist than they are.