There are more than 3-5 RINO's.
They'll all be pressured by the left and by us on the right like they've never been pressured before. Expect senatorial crying, "Maverick" maneuvers, Freeper comments about the lack of leadership body parts and plenty of network time from the likes of kiss-ass Chuck Hagel.
That said, I bet we get at lease one RINO, Specter on our side.
You just have to be kidding!
3-5 RINOs?????????????
There are 3-5 conservatives among the Republican't ranks, which makes it more like 50 RINOs!
You need a new calculator (or, closer looks into the Senators' speeches and votes).
Oh.........one more thing. There is no such thing as a "moderate". A "moderate" is just a misnomer for a flaming liberal whose flame burns with slightly less BTUs than, say, a Manslaughter "Jabba Ted" Kennedy holding a match to his exhaled breath.
The problem is much bigger than RINOs.
Associate Justices and US Senators are both drawn from the same class.
The values of that class (the values of most of its members) are incompatible with ordered Liberty and a constitutional republic, since both require self-reliant and self-disciplined citizens.
The managerial elite wants neither.
How many US Senators want to be put on the spot by a reversal of Roe v. Wade?
I venture to guess that it's less than 30.
So it is with all of the "social issues". The class interests and class prejudices of Senators (especially Republicans) are at odds with those of the common people.
This being so, it is very much in the interest of a large bipartisan majority to have these "social issues" referred to a forum which is unreviewable and whose members are not subject to losing their jobs by failure to be reelected.
It will take a President with a very clear Constitutional vision and a large Senate majority to fix this problem.