Republicans need some honey before they bite into a Supreme Court deal

Will the Republicans eat their peas?

Republicans in the Senate have refused even to meet with any Supreme Court nominee President Obama might pick.

I understand how they feel. As a kid, I would absolutely refuse to eat my peas. My teeth were clenched.

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But what Mom would do was drip a little honey on them and suddenly peas were delicious.

So look at this – the first potential nominee being floated is a Republican. Brian Sandoval, a former federal judge appointed by George W. Bush, was re-elected Governor of Nevada with 70 percent of the vote in 2014. But he’s said he will fight Obamacare.

Floating the name of a guy who sued to stop Obamacare? That’s a lot of honey on the peas.

Oh, and he has one other credential: He’s Nevada’s first Hispanic governor.

This is the guy that Republicans are going to refuse even to meet with? That’s what they say. But there’s, at least, one conservative blog making he following argument:

Sandoval may be to left of Antonin Scalia, but he is nothing like the kind of flaming liberal Hillary Clinton would pick. And as for Trump – the thinking goes that Trump wins only if he drops his right wing talk show act and moves to the center, and since he doesn’t really care about moral issues, he too would appoint a liberal-leaning justice to get the Democrats to cooperate with all his HUGE plans.

That would make a guy like Sandoval the closest thing to a conservative Republicans are likely to get. So could it be time to (take a deep breath) give peas a chance? Sorry.