Why do Republicans feel if they can get 23 no votes on Sotomayor they win?

[Winterblues]

Not stopping the nomination but a win for their Party. ????? I don't get it. I understand 23 is a majority of Republican Senators but a slight one. I have heard that number tossed around as their goal. They know she will win easily but still want to be seen as the Party of No..

[liberal N proud]

1. Good for morale

[Avalux]

2. Little victories are all they have. Must hold on to their base.

So they'll bleat and bray about 23 votes and how it shows the Republican Party is still loyal to its values - all for the benefit of the nutjobs who still support them.

[ashling]

11. Little minds - little goals

The goal, I think is to lower expectations for them

[scheming daemons]

3. That's one more no vote than Roberts got... that's their goal

[SoCalDem]

7. It's all an f'ing game to them.. They have a scoreboard.

:grr:

[n2doc]

4. Stupid games by them

No one is gonna care about the number, unless it is really close. And it won't be.

The Senate just needs to get this exercise over with and get on with other things.

[rurallib]

5. That is how high any Republican can count because of number of appendages?

since they now count teabags.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Who knows?

The mind of the average Repuke is a dark and dangerous place to be. My guess is that they want to feel as though they've inflicted the maximum amount of damage on Sotomayor before she gets the eventual confirmation. I don't understand what their long-term strategy seems to be though- since once she's on SCOTUS, she's on and there's not much the Repukes can do about it- but I guess they CAN use her nomination of her to attack President Obama........somehow....down the line. :shrug:

[spanone]

8. it's the party of NOTHING showing it's mettle

[Incitatus]

9. Because that's the best they can do, so they have to act like it's some kind of victory.

[peace frog]

10. Because they are pathetic losers

who have nothing to hold onto but meaningless numbers and petty "gotcha" games. FOOLS.

[DebbieCDC]

12. A "moral victory" in their minds I guess