Republicans lame 'because it's an election year' rationale for rejecting Obama's SCOTUS pick

Things happened very quickly on Saturday in the hours after the nation learned of Antonin Scalia's death. When I sat down to write up my piece on it, I decided to advocate what seemed to me at least a somewhat radical position - that the Republican-controlled Senate needed to reject any Obama nominee, simply because the left's assault on the Constitution could prove fatal to the nation if we found ourselves with five Supreme Court Justices who view the Constitution with the same disdain Obama does. I wasn't surprised when Ted Cruz quickly came out with a statement saying the same thing, but I was very surprised when Mitch McConnell did so - and only a couple of hours after Scalia's death became known. We've covered to death here McConnell's disinclination to stand up to Obama on just about anything, but maybe this signaled his recognition that the survival of this nation as a constitutionally limited republic was too important to worry about media criticism in this instance.