Me too. I honestly don't think we need to have a filibuster battle if we can simply ram this through. If the RINOs behave themselves, if enough Democrats come on board, if they refrain from filibustering, that will also be a major victory.
Sure, we should use the Constitutional option if we have to. But if the Democrats back down, that will be even better in many ways, because it will reverse the momentum of the past few years.
Indeed, it will be the first really solid conservative candidate confirmed to the court in a long, long time. We had Specter's help with Clarence Thomas (which he soon regreted, but not soon enough to block the confirmation). But a victory, with or without calling cloture, would reverse the whole set of unfortunate compromises and backings-down that began with Bork.
I'll take either victory.