President Bush has to
prove he's one of the Nine best judges for ALL of America. Not being open to the American people isn't the way to do this. Picking someone with no record judging, belonging to secret societies and denying it, isn't the way to do this.
This would be a better frame for this debate.
Supreme court is a national election, 44 Democratic senators represent 3.3 million more American citizens than 55 GOP senators.
Dem Senators represent more people: (148 million to 145 million, using 2004 Census estimates).
Democrats serving in the Senate today were elected by 61 million votes, while GOP senators were elected by 59 million. Also, the total votes received by all candidates, win or lose, was: 99.5 million Democratic, 98.3 million GOP.