Reply #24: Supreme Court nominees must be confirmed by the Senate [View All]

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The Senate is a body that, by constitutional design, is a conservative body.

Put up somebody who has openly driven liberal policy and decisions as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court and you'll have Democratic Senators forced to join in any filibuster effort with Republicans due to the makeup of their state's constituency. You lose by nominating an openly liberal candidate.

It's called pragmatism. It worked very well with Sotamayor, and she's proven to be very liberal even though her record screamed moderate when she was nominated. I believe you'd see EXACTLY the same thing with Kagan.

This culture of instant gratification being driven by internet liberals will be the death of the liberal agenda. Without Pragmatism, conservatives can easily form their coalition with 1/3 of the moderates and seize power. It only takes two years for them to do that.

Liberals need to form a coalition with more than two-thirds of the moderates in order to have a majority. That means that in such a coalition, the moderates outnumber the liberals by 3 to 2, which means the moderates have the real power in the coalition.

Get it?

For the liberal agenda to advance, the key words are pragmatism and patience.