Given that, what possible reason is there to continue to vote Republican?
That's easy. Elections are comparative choices - not absolute. Republicans are better than democrats. Next question.
Yeah, why vote Republican when we can let 'Rats win and nominate the likes of Ginsberg and Breyer? /sarcasm off
Like I said - I'm not saying Clement goes one way or the other. We don't know yet. But it's not unreasonable for the conservative wing of this part to be at least mildly disappointed that Bush is going to nominate another mystery figure who has - as Mark Levin points out - a thin trail to go on.
Sycophants have no original thoughts or ideas. I prefer not to be a sycophant and call a spade a spade. The lack of intestinal fortitude demonstrated by our two-presidential-term majority Congress is enough reason to dread the unknown...