Remember Judges?

The GOP don't seem to:

Just before November 2002, Senate Republicans used the Senate floor, the Judiciary Committee, press conferences, and activist activity to spotlight Democratic tactics opposing Circuit Court nominees Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles Pickering, and Dennis Shedd. Just two weeks before the election, the president gathered the press corps and the legal community in the East Room to punctuate the point.

In 2003 and into 2004, Senate Republicans forced floor debate after floor debate, used committee showdowns, and catalyzed the media to press the cases for Estrada, Owen, Pickering, Janice Rogers Brown, Carolyn Kuhl, and Bill Pryor. Conservative advocates and the press amplified these debates in the run-up to the ’04 election.

Not now. This November will be the first election year since 2000 that no significant Senate debate over judicial confirmations will spark a voter response. If Senate leaders do not rethink their strategy, fewer voters will be considering judicial confirmations when they vote for Senate candidates on November 3rd. It is a huge mistake. It is an avoidable mistake.

Too late for that. The mistake was supporting Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey at the behest of the Republican jersey-wavers who've been rebuked by reality----again.