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"I can tell you this much: if the GOP insists on bending over and getting kicked in the posterior by Specter, and then lets him get away with it, I'm probably going to be too busy working on other projects to do GOTV work in 2006 and 2008."

That is exactly what I mean. While you are making your "threat" in far more polite terms then many, it's still a "threat" not debate or discussion. It's a all or nothing threat. So why should the Senate continue listening to you?

Now for the sake of discussion, don't you think it's very possible that President Bush and his people have been thinking about Supreme Court nominations and how they are going to get them confirmed? I have to believe they have.

I also have to believe that they considered the fact that Spectre will be part of that process one way or the other. If not chair he could still stop a nomination if he wanted.

Again, I have to assume that they not only knew this months ago, but that also are planning how to confirm nominees they already have in mind.

But instead of fighting to get a Pro-Life nominee confirmed some people on the right are making this an abortion battle before the first nominee is named. So far the only thing these efforts has done is polarize an unnamed Supreme Court nominee and gotten the pro-abortion people into the battle.

While you are making your "threat" in far more polite terms then many, it's still a "threat" not debate or discussion.

Yeah, it's a threat. It's one that the GOP would be wise to heed, because I know I'm not the only guy making it.

GOTV is the key to victory. It's long, hard, tedious, and unpaid work. And I do not appreciate those who waste my time. I have things I want to accomplish in this life. Some of those things, I put off so that I could do GOTV and other scutwork. So did a lot of other people. I know people who put off business startups or expansion efforts. I know people who sacrificed vacations with their families.

When Specter shot his mouth off, he gave us the finger. If the GOP Senate caucus lets him do what he threatened to do just days after the election, then we will have lost an opportunity...and all of us GOTV volunteers will have gotten 54 more birds flipped to us.

All I can judge Specter by is his statements before things started getting uncomfortable for him...and those statements do not fill my heart with optimism.

If the feedback I get on my work is "Well, it wasn't that important," then I'm going to find something else to do with my time.