that said, you know, my sense of where they fall on the conservative index, they are bunched up close together. and my guess is that kavanaugh might be a little more moderate. but we are going based on slim pickings here. and ruth you made a clear point here, if you think barrett is the one of most conservative, who do you think is the most surprise? i don t think of it like that. and by the way, i covered the david sueder confirmation
position that it was contrary to something he had said earlier. i think it s often a matter of tone, right? so you have candidates like bevin. you have candidates like ted cruz and mike levy, the guys who run from the right, and they are not all that much more conservative than the people they claim to be rallying against. so i think i just really think that you re seeing that and bevin got caught doing it. he really did. andrea, you know, these people sometimes try to run to the right of members that will have like a 90% conservative index. when you have people running around saying jon cornyn is a liberal it s time to take off the tin hat and say how do the republicans win the senate in 2014. this is another example of that. we saw recently in virginia in a congressional race where the party pressured someone out