I do believe that Rs should fight back fairly, but they should fight back hard and relentlessly. Turning the other cheek to these guys only guarantees that we’re going to be hit twice. Because they are ruthless.

With Franken seated and practically guaranteeing a 60-seat filibuster-proof Senate supermajority, a majority in the House, a man in the White House who’s seemingly dedicated to dismantling all that makes America great and now the prospect of Sotomayor being confirmed to the SCOTUS, we don’t have the luxury of picking our battles. Our battles are here and now.

While it’s true that “Souter out, Sotomayor in” won’t change the basic makeup of the court, that’s not the point. The point is that the left is no-holds-barred when it comes to opposing the right, and we must react accordingly.

I can only imagine how the original Boston Tea Party group would have responded if someone had said, “Listen, fellas, it’s only tea. Maybe we should wait until something big comes along…”

In Great Point Number Two, you claim that the “6 for 6″ metric is a combination of “inept” and “not apt” - “inapt”. Could you name for me another judge who has a similar record of reversal before the SCOTUS?

In Great Point Number Three, wouldn’t you think that applies to the left far more than it does us?

As for your other two points, I would say that they are inapt. And maybe we have more donation dollars than you think. Or maybe it doesn’t take donation dollars for Republican Senators to stand up for what is right, and vote against a clearly incompetent judge.

This is a Conservative/Republican site, not a public bulletin board for people to just post whatever stupid crap they feel they just “have to say, or they’ll simply BURST.”

stfu.

Just for grins, give me an example of a battle you would pick to fight - maybe Obama not lifting a finger while Iranian citizens are being gunned down in the streets? Or siding with dictators and the former President of Honduras? A SCOTUS pick who is plainly incompetent? Cap and Trade? Socialized Medicine? Reparations? Becoming a “champion” of gay “rights”?

Well? Come on - which of these is worthy of your “powder”? So far you seem to think none of the above, so I am interested in your answer.

Plus, he even try to find a fig leaf “issue” to protest - he just made it clear that he didn’t want to face Toomey in the Republican primary.

So we succeeded at what we’re always saying we want to do - challenge RINOs in the primary and beat them.

Except that Specter decided to bail early - and he was in a unique position to do so because he has long had a strong base of support from his union buddies and a base of Democratic voters that gave him a viable chance to win the Democratic primary. This is very rarely the case in the case of a party switcher.

Specter is the exception that validates the principle.

2> The “6 for 6″ metric is inapt. SCOTUS generally accepts cases for review with an eye towards reversal. The better metric is reversals divided by opinions.

3> Throwing around a term like “racist” makes you less credible, not more credible.

4> If you want to have a serious discussion of a SCOTUS nominee, you talk about her opinions. And not in the “6 for 6″ way, but in some sort of depth.

5> Some of the other commenters here have it right: absent some sort of game-breaking revelation, this is a train that has left the station. You only have some many donation dollars to play with. Is this a smart place to spend them? I think not.

FYI - Princeton doesn’t have a law school or law students.

All I am saying is you got to pick your battles.

But you MIGHT end up wasting all your political capital on trying to nix this judge, especially using harsh rhetoric against her. Then next time a really horrid person comes up you get no where because the liberals will RIGHTFULLY say that all those republicans are not serious they just like to attack everyone on the left and in the most hateful way.

Then you get nowhere.

I’m tired of the “Stop Pelosi” and “Stop Reid” line from the Party and I’m a political regular and contributor. How do you think the mass feel about that stuff? We also don’t have the resources to do it at the national level very well since the media is totally in the tank for Comrade Obame and the Dems. We need to personalize this at the Congressional level and to the individual member starting with the ones in traditionally Red states and districts. We should make life a living Hell for any Democrat representing a district in a state where we control a body of the Legislature, the Governor, or even a significant number of the CongressCritters.

And we make them vote and vote on everything! We have to have caucus discipline to stop Republicans from giving cover to these vulnerable Democrats. If they won’t vote with the caucus, throw them out and make them into vulnerable Democrats. And we can’t let them pull a Specter and quit the Party; it is too much of a PR victory for the Ds to celebrate a defection. We have to make it clear that we don’t want them. If there is no cover for Democrats, they either have to cast suicidal votes or come over and vote with us.

GWB didn’t go from a 90% approval rating down to a mid-20s rating overnight or because the Dems and the media held their fire except for the ‘biggies.’ He went down because 24/7 *everything* was his fault, no matter how big, how small, how stupid, or how hypocritical. You couldn’t turn around in a phone booth without hearing some whacko Dem blaming Bush for something.

It was the constant drumbeat of negativity that finally permeated the consciousness of the uninfomed, lazy voter to the point that they believed that a 4.6% unemployment rate was akin to the Great Depression. And it *still* took 4 years to crater Bush’s numbers, and that’s with the media being active accomplices.

We *don’t* have the media on our side (I know, no kidding) which means we have to be twice as loud and twice as relentless in pounding the “Obama’s policy take away freedom’ every.single.chance.we.get!

You can’t do that by ‘picking & choosing.’

That’s when it makes a difference, and that’s when we should fight him. Always and forever, period.