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Reason #8 To Vote Republican in every U.S. Senate Race!

IMHO, this should be Reason #1.

Judges are appointed for life. Presidents come and go. Dems & Pubbies come and go. Power shifts left, power shifts right. But judges? They're there for life.

This election is ALL ABOUT judgeships!!

We must keep the House and take back the Senate so that conservative judges that believe the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. don't need to be "interpreted" can be appointed.

Truly, the future of our country is riding on this!!!

Dubya gets it. Hopefully, so do you. VOTE ON TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I agree, IN TERMS OF IMPORTANCE APPROVING BUSH'S CONSERVATIVE JUDGES IS #1 THING TO BE FIXED THIS ELECTION!!!

Here is an excerpt posted from a South Carolina paper's endorsement of Lindsay Graham, Republican running for US Senate there:

"But the most regrettable result has been the refusal of the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee to even allow votes on the president's nomination of three qualified judges who happen to be Southern conservatives. A prime example is South Carolina's own U.S. District Judge Dennis Shedd, supported both by Sen. Thurmond and Democrat Sen. Ernest F. Hollings for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The handling of the nomination was so grievous that Sen. Thurmond returned to the Senate floor after his formal farewell to complain bitterly about his ill treatment at the hands of the committee. Specifically he said he had been lied to by the leadership who had promised there would at least be a vote on the Shedd nomination. The votes on the other two conservative nominations were strictly along party lines.

In the larger picture, Mr. Graham makes the point, and it's well taken, that there is one vote on which the senators will always toe the party line. That's the organization of the Senate.

To the winner of that organizational vote, which will come shortly after the election, will go the committee chairmanships and a critical edge. Certainly the Republicans have played the partisan game in the past, but not to the extent we are seeing now on critical judicial nominations.

According to a GOP report, the total tally of Bush appointments confirmed to the district and circuit benches stands at only 61 percent. But that's not the real rub. The more powerful circuit nominations have been caught in a buzz saw. That confirmation rate is just 43 percent. A look back as far as John F. Kennedy's administration by Senate Republican researchers showed that most presidents had more than 90 percent of their nominees confirmed in the first two years, with only one at 82 percent.