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This is an outrage. The Democrats should pay in the next election for this.

Yes, but on the duplicate thread, many of the weak Conservatives are threatening to throw in the towel, playing right into the Democrat strategy.

... many of the weak Conservatives are threatening to throw in the towel, playing right into the Democrat strategy.

I thnk the threat has more than one facet. Expressing a wish that the politicos legislate from conservative principles sometimes encourages them to legislate from conservative principles.

Those "weak" conservatives most likely are part of the millions of conservatives that stayed home and didn't vote in 2000!

They want to know why the Republican Party is reaching out to bring in new people -- all they have to do is look in the mirror. Their threatening to sit out elections is what is driving the Republicans to look elsewhere. You can only threaten for so long before people get totally fed up.

Without 58 Republican Senators, this nomination would never have gone anywhere. A lengthy filibuster would not have changed one thing and would have polarized the Senate even more and important work would not be accomplished. It is a travesty, but those are the rules of the Senate and I am not sure that nuking those rules for one nomination would be in the best interest of the Senate.

Even the Hispanic community did not get behind Estrada like I thought they would. People need to quit having tunnel vision and look at much wider picture of what is best for the Country instead of their own agenda in some cases.

You don't win every battle you enter and never will in politics, but you want to win the war at the end which is the election. Making the Senate go into an all out filibuster with Iraq, Afghanistan, terrorist threats, the economy, and anything else you could name on their plate, would not have been smart for the Republicans. Sometimes you take your losses and live to fight another day.

My opinon I know goes against the grain of a lot of folks on here but that is the way I see politics. Confrontational, in your face politics, gains very little and in my belief harms your cause.

I think you have it wrong. The STRONG conservatives are the ones threatening to "throw in the towel" as you call it. Maybe we have just had enough of FAKE conservatives.