MAY be inevitable?

Of course a fight is inevitable. Republicans have written the script already: "The nominee is a Socialist!" will be a standard.

A filibuster is a certainty.

Anything less will not be tolerated by Rush Limbaugh.

This is the Republican Party: The Party of Hate. Perhaps the two from Maine may be permitted to vote for the nominee. But they will be alone and excoriated for it. No other Republican in the Senate will be permitted to vote for anyone or anything proposed by President Obama. Ever.

Sarah Palin will need a Vice President.

My prediction is that the demand for a birth certificate, prpelled by the crazies of the Republican Party (which is about all that is left) will make its way into the 2012 Republican Party Presidential platform: Especially with a Palin/Joe the Plumber ticket.

I believe the analysis of Joe the Plumber is legitimate. I was not kidding about his liklihood of being Sarah Palin's VP nominee. He is, I believe, one of the trongest contenders to be preferred by the GOP to be on the ticket with her.

Coservatives certianly do.

President Grant ran what was probably the second most corrupt administration in US history, second behind Warren Harding. I would not use Grant as a "good" example for your hopes for "President Palin".

Never.

This is the same set of Conservatives who managed to make a political issue out of Donovan McNab’s quarterbacking of the Philadelphia Eagles. Except that then it was Rush Limbaugh and now it is Sean Hannity’s turn.

The divide will continue, with Republicans tightening their hold on the poor, freightened and ignorant: And taking steps to make sure they stay that way.

The new Republican "Base".

Rush Limbaugh will use this to harden his base. His broadcasts this week will be seething with hate for Barak obama and Democrats in general.

Republicans will eat it up.

Their base will narrow some more, but but also hate some more.

Rush will grow richer

That is how it is meant to be.

Re: “I often find myself wondering why some progressive and moderate Democrats spend so much time trying to explain this to the Republicans right now, practically pleading for them to understand.”

Because the more Democrats do it, the more Republicans will refuse to do it.

That is why.

Stem cell research litmus tests serve to further purify The Party of those who are not 100% pure on Abortion. No exceptions for any reason. Ever.

There is not one single Republican in the United States who does not believe this is 100% true. Not one.

Where does the author come off declaring that even Cheney’s own party does not support his love for torturing prisoners? Show me one single Republican who has dared to say “Dick Cheney is wrong”. There are none.

Show me one single Republican who will say that waterboarding is torture, let alone that it is wrong.

Dick Cheney is not a minority in his own party. He IS his party.

Limited government Republicans decide that the Federal government must intervene to enforce their morality on local jurisdictions. And that is news?

The key will be to see how many other Republicans vote with them. Knowing that Republicans will be able to please the rabid right back home, yet still count on the Democrats to protect them from anything actually happening, my betting is that more than 95% of Republicans will back the measure.

Barak Obama can never “win over” Republicans. Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney will not permit it. Measuring his success by the acceptance of people such as yourself is therefore not realistic.

Dick Cheney had you at "good afternoone".

As always.

Re: "Seriously. You should be concerned that Obama's promising things that he has no idea how to carry out;"

You mean promises such as bringing in Osama bin Laden "dead or alive"?

Or is that, as usual, DIFFERENT?

Republicans will drag their feet on every vote, blocking even discussion.

Republicans will filibuster votes in the Senate.

Republicans on the air will make up stories about her: Stories that are as much lies as WMD’s in Iraq.

Republicans will make their battle in the Senate make the Minnesota Senate campaign appear tame.

No matter what the consequences.

Republicans cannot help themselves. It is what they do.

So what does she stand for? We don't know much about her. What's her position on the issues? What's her take on Roe v. Wade? Gay marriage?

That was the Republican party Line on Barak Obama (Don't know him...) Are you recycling it?

Is the 'left' expected to support and defend her simply because she's a woman and a minority? That's my understanding.

No. Again you are confusing the Republican standard of voting exactly as they are told by Rush and the Party heirarchy.

I don't follow how her going to Yale means she is intelligent. One word: Dubya.

George w. Bush got into school and for that matter got every job he ever had) by leading off with, "Daddy says to say 'Hi!' ". However she graduated Summa Cum Laude. "W" just barely graduated. There is a difference.

Is the author somehow applying logic to the thought process behind Republican opposition to Ms. Sotomayor?

There is only one logic: Republican hate of Barak Obama that is now at psychotic levels. Republicans would look into the camer and declare, with absolute sincerity, that she was an alien from Mars if they had to. It is all about stoking the hate. The Republican party cannothelp itself.

Watch.

Over the next three months the accusatinos will, of necessity, escelate to levels that would make the swiftboat attacks against Kerry and the "Barak is a Muslim" campaign look tame.

That is what it meas to be a Repubican now.