why should we be concerned at all about the votes of the Dems - they are in the minority.
the RINOs and the McCain gang were the reason we didn't get a "top shelf" conservative - Luttig, Owens, Rogers Brown. I blame this group for that, not Bush.
I would have settled for a "second tier" conservative - someone conservative, but not "controversial" enough to spook the RINOs - but the president doesn't want the fight, including the fillibuster.
so instead we got Miers.
and I posed this question on a thread yesterday - and very few offered their opinion, so I will try again:
if tommorrow, Stevens passes away - who would the pick to replace him be? Now that we have the formula above in place, who would we get?
Since the potus is predisposed to only pick people whose heart he really knows for the Court, he's going to nominate his mother when Stevens dies.
I think President Bush was looking for a simple watchdog...to serve as a swing vote on behalf of Christian conservatives all over the nation.
He avoided a long drawn out filibuster by being pragmatic.