I'm going to run a poll on how the folks here believe the Democrats will handle the Alito nomination.
It seems to me that the Republicans played right into the Dems' hands with their (mis)handing of the Miers nomination. She went down without a single Dem having to cast a vote against her. It was the wingnut right who shot her down, and America knows this.
And, as expected, Bush has responded by kowtowing to the wingnut right with his nomination of Alito.
And America knows this.
The American public rejects the wingnut right, and the proof of that is how hard the Republicans work to hide these extremists from mainstream America.
Remember the GOP's convention in NYC? Who did we see in the primetime spots? The Gropenator, Pataki, and Rudy G. Every single one of them pro-choice (as well as pro environmental regulation, pro gun control, anti marriage amendment.) Alan Keyes couldn't buy himself an audience, and he was engaged in a "battle" for a Senate seat. Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh? All MIA. As for Pat Buchanan, well, fool me once....
Bush's political stock is at the lowest point of his pResidency.
I really believe that the Dems could succeed with a filibuster of the Alito nomination.
Keeping in mind that these
are the Dems: