Sorry, you don't just pick fights to pick fights. It's dumb strategy. Washington didn't believe in that; neither did Reagan. You strategerize to WIN, not to pick fights. It's immature of Rush to say this.
Huh? Picking a fight? Running the executive and legislative branch as the majority party and selecting someone who the opposition would oppose is picking a fight? Remind me to never share a foxhole with you.
Bush NEEDS a fight right now. The reason his poll ratings are down is because conservatives are disenchanted with his spending, his failure to control the borders, and his pandering to the race hustlers after Katrina. Bush needs a clear right vs. left fight...a vicious, bloody fight....to rally the base for 2006.
Some people just don't get it. It's the Democrats who are desperate to avoid a Supreme Court fight. The reason they threatened Bush so much on this issue was to intimidate him into not sending up a nominee who would trigger a fight. The 'Rats knew that a fight would result in the public rallying around the nominee, who would then be confirmed, with Bush's ratings going up and the GOP base rallied for 2006. The last thing the 'Rats wanted was a situation where Ralph Neas & NARAL & Co. were demanding that they filibuster while phone calls & e-mails from back home were running four-to-one in favor of the nominee. Imagine Mary Landrieu or Max Baucus or Bill Nelson caught in that trap.
Bush avoided a fight and gave us a stealth nominee who is a decade too old, thus providing the Democrats with political cover.