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Malcontents here, are what, does it include those who supported Keyes Bauer or Forbes in the '99 primary? They returned to the fold long ago, held only one campaign promise made by Bush as sacrosanct, that of "SC judges like Scalia and Thomas", and have compromised on every situation away from their principles. The only faction within this big tent Compassionate Conservative coalition are now the arbitrators of Republican's appropriate level of Compassion, a judgment that allows one to stay inside the tent, and are the ones who are abandoning Bush's one sacrosanct campaign promise made to other factions of the Conservative wing of the Republican coalition, and are attempting to banish anyone who dare speak up against a unqualified woman who surprise surprise, is one of their own, the first of their faction to be nominated to the Supreme Court since 1931.

The only defense they have for her nomination is a reason that only satisfies their own base of religious social conservatives, and has very little value to conservatives of other stripes who have worked alongside Bush for 6 years now building up to this very moment.

Those who adamantly supported Terry's cause are once again going full bore to fracture the Republican coalition for their narrow focused cause.