This is delusion!
Elections aren't won in
Left or Right gutters,
rather they're won in
the wide middle of the road.
Elections are won
by whichever side
convinces undecideds
to decide for them.
After the Senate
'Rats voted straight party line
not to impeach Bill,
undecided types
rebelled against Party votes
and Republicans
took back the White House
and the Senate. It wasn't
this-or-that fringe group.
That kind of thinking
is just self-aggrandizing.
And the bad news is
if the Supreme Court
gets a new judge forced on it
by a Party vote,
come next elections,
Republicans might suffer
the same backlash that
the 'Rats suffered when
they did their Party vote to
keep Bill in office.
So, you think nominating Alito to the Supreme Court is the moral equivalent of offing Ron Brown and Vince Foster and making out with Monica in the Oval Office?
You are correct in your assertion that the party might lose if it forces a conservative onto the court.
However, if we don't force a conservative on the Court, we absolutely will lose that seat at the table of 9. If we do force a conservative on the Court, at least we get that seat. We may never get another shot at that seat, so we must pull out all the stops to fill it now. The GOP could still lose the next election either way, so not trying to get the seat on the basis of prognosticating about the effect of getting the seat doesn't make sense.