"We wanted a knockout. We wanted to burn their ideological cities and sow the ground with tequila salt."
Rubbish! I don't think it was about wanting a fight at all. Most conservatives are just deathly afraid of another Souter. After working their butts on in the trenches for 20 or so years, who could blame them?
I'm not interested in a fight, I'm interested in *winning*.
A judicial non-entity, that is in no way, shape or form a proven conservative jurist is NOT WINNING. It's failing to even show up and fight ...