[Paradox]

While I am dissapointed in Bush for this pick, the histrionics it has generated is beyond me. I hope for the best at this point, but I am not going to jump off the bridge.

Maybe its because I never "loved" Bush in the first place. If people have been caught up in a cult of personality, then thats their fault.

Maybe its because of my libertarian roots, and the fact that I have never seen one party as the good guy, and the other as the bad guy (although one is certainly "gooder" than the other, thats for sure).

I don't get it I guess, maybe that makes me a worse conservative than those crying over unspilt milk. I am hopefully optimistic, I _TRY_ to be overall, because that is not my nature (as a former Democrat, I can tell you that with certainty). I'll wait for the hearings to make my final call.

[griswold3]

"I'll wait for the hearings to make my final call."
I'm with you. Everyone that feels "bitch slapped" should be actually "bitch slapped".
Read your history about Supreme Court justices.

[MortMan]

While I am dissapointed in Bush for this pick, the histrionics it has generated is beyond me.

I second that thought!