IMO The damage to the GOP has already been done by Bush. The nomination itself did the damage...as the traffic on these threads indicates. The question is can the damage be repaired. If she is confirmed and if her court opinions turn out, for example, to confirm her to be a closet feminist or advocate of affirmative action, to chose only one of her likely predelictions the damage will not be repaired. There are those that think the conservative wing of the "FR conservatives" have no option than to take what ever the GOP dishes up...well I don't subscribe to that and if Bush turns out in the final analysis to have screwed this up, we could find ourselves in '08 with a Republican Congress and a Democratic President..(if we make it through '06). Not something I contemplate with glee but certainly within the realm of possibility....You dance with he who brung you or you go home with somebody else.