Wrong...it's a total loss due to the spineless cowardly RINOS.
"Extraordianary circumstances" is NOT, in your words, a vague threat. Democrats will now throw around "EC" at every Bush nominee no matter what. The nominee could wear brown shows with a blue suit and that will be enough for the traitors in the DNC to say "extraordinary circumstances".
What really makes me laugh is that John McCain thinks he's helping himself when, in reality, he just kissed away any chance he thought he had to win the 2008 GOP nomination. Let him run as an independent.
The GOP is dead!
"'Extraordianary circumstances' is NOT, in your words, a vague threat. Democrats will now throw around 'EC' at every Bush nominee no matter what. The nominee could wear brown shows with a blue suit and that will be enough for the traitors in the DNC to say 'extraordinary circumstances'.
Yes, and I would expect the Dem's to find an extraordinary cicumstance sooner rather than later. And when the "moderate" Dem's renege on the agreement it will put the RINO's on the defense. McCain and his fellow wannabe GOP mavericks will be forced to express their "dissapointment" that the Dem centrists broke their word. The offended RINO's then have almost no choice but to go with the constitutional option as they will look like fools trusting the Democrats again.
In the meantime we get 3 of the best judges confirmed, and perhaps a few more till the Dem's can't stand it anymore and find an extraordinary circumstance.
This is not an outright win. I'd have preferred to see the constitutional option, but it's a better deal for our side than it is for theirs.
Longbow
Exactly, and they'll get away with it too.
The people on this thread who think this was a GOP victory need to go buy a clue.