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I respectfully disagree with part of your premise. Heading into the 2006 elections, we could easily flip the votes of Nelson of Nebraska, Robert Byrd of W Virginia, Nelson of Florida, and probably Miss Mary of Louisiana as well.

I would like to see the RATS vote against a black woman in red states with a large black population.

I agree that we might lose a few RINOs, but we could flip some RATS.

The Administration is being lazy.

I respectfully disagree with part of your premise. Heading into the 2006 elections, we could easily flip the votes of Nelson of Nebraska, Robert Byrd of W Virginia, Nelson of Florida, and probably Miss Mary of Louisiana as well.

That doesn't solve your "here and now" predicament that you seem mired down in.

I will grant you that you MIGHT flip Mary Landrieu, although she might go out with a bang, voting against Miers. After all, she is almost guaranteed to lose her next election since the New Orleans base she counted on has been scattered to the four winds. She might choose to demonstrate her loyalty, hoping for a plum job in an '08 Rat administration or a high-paying job with a Rat-backing corporation. The idea that Byrd would vote for a black woman is pretty shaky as well. He would simply go off on some rant about the history of the Senate, blah, blah, and then vote no. Nelson, maybe.

BUT, you see what you're doing, don't you? You are counting on democrats to get a conservative justice passed. Do you really think that if it were Owens, they wouldn't all stand together? Evan Bayh, my senator and a supposed moderate, voted against Roberts. The state is outraged, but he doesn't care; what's important to him is getting a slot on the 08 ticket. I don't think he will vote for anyone Bush nominates.

Really, you are supposing a best-case scenario. That isn't how the Senate works, in my opinion, particularly on a vote such as you envision.