If you figure out a way to bring the likes of John McCain, Mike DeWine, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Hagel, Lindsey Graham, Arlen Specter etc. into the ranks of those willing to vote for the "nucular" option please let me know.
Conservatives have about as much influence over Olympia Snowe as Jacques Chirac has on JimRob.
By calling them out on their hypocrisy. Conservatives just got a shot in the arm with Miers' withdrawal, and so now is not the time to start nervously limiting ourselves. Anyone - Dem or Republican - who starts going on about how JRB is "outside the mainstream" needs to be challenged to say exactly what he means by that. Because her most distinguishing characteristic, from the perspective of people who talk like that, is a relative lack of willingness to strike down laws enacted by that same "mainstream". That needs to be hammered over and over again, and conservatives need to be unified on that point. The more ridiculous the RINO's and Dems are shown to be in front of the entire country, the less swagger you'll see in the way they talk. Those who are up for reelection in '06 will bear that in mind.
The most important thing for conservatives to remember is that no matter what the MSM says, we are in the mainstream when it comes to judges, because our judges aren't used as ways of circumventing the legisltative process. That's what the Left wants in judges, because they know they're outside the mainstream. So as long as we don't lose heart, we'll prevail, because ultimately, this is merely a game of psychological warfare that the Left is playing with us. As long as we're not caught off guard, they will lose that game.