My bet is that McCain will appoint another bunch of Kennedys, Stevens, and Ginsbergs. He's the same guy that brought us campaign finance reform that has resulted in more money and corruption into politics, refuses to give up amnesty (and even recognize it for what it is) despite the vociferous objections of the American public, and has bought into the global warming nonsense.

If he had his way I suspect McCain would nominate someone like Earl Warren - a loyal pal who he swears is a good, fair conservative, with little to no experience as a judge.

Then again, I would have said the same thing about Bush, who gave us Roberts and Alito. (And almost Miers...)

My bet is that McCain will appoint another bunch of Kennedys, Stevens, and Ginsbergs. He's the same guy that brought us campaign finance reform that has resulted in more money and corruption into politics, refuses to give up amnesty (and even recognize it for what it is) despite the vociferous objections of the American public, and has bought into the global warming nonsense.

The utter lack of logic in this comment is amazing. What does campaign finance reform have to do with judges? Nothing. What does not screeching about those awful brown hordes have to do with judges? Nothing. What does global warming have to do with judges? Nothing.

The Jury is still out on what sort of Judges McCain will pick to sit on the court.

The good news is, if Obama wins in November the odds that he will replace a good judge with a bad judge are minimal. More likely the liberal judges who have been waiting out President Bush will retire and be replaced with other liberal judges. Still bad but not a catastrophy.

As to McCain and what sort of Judges he will appoint. We'll get a pretty good idea of that once he picks his running mate (VP).

If he picks a running mate along the lines of Joe Lieberman, we can be assured that his Judges won't be in the mold of Roberts/Alito. If he picks someone like Thompson or Romney, etc, then we can put our fears aside.

My money is on Lieberman.

Like any other Executive, the President has to rely on his Staff to do the choosing, the vetting, the infighting... and the Executive has to be able to trust his staff to choose the people the Executive himself would have chosen, were he to have the time to do all of the grunt work.

So look to who McCain has chosen in his staff to do his grunt work on Judges... I can't remember them off the top of my head, but they seemed to be people who respect the Conservative Version of the Constitution and the role of the Courts.

All politicians act in the interests of their power sources, but I think McCain's choices of Judges will be comfortable to most Conservatives.

Now, since you're in a good mood, DO NOT look to his choice of Staff members on the issue of Immigration...

Defense first. Judges second. These are my priorities. I feel a whole lot more comfortable with McCain on these issues than Obama. He was not my choice, but he is the only choice now. No matter how much people hate McCain, he is still tons better than Obama. And the people who want to teach America lesson please understand that America may not recover from that lesson for decades if ever. And the republicans who stay home and not vote are putting the rest of us in jeopardy.

Any conservative who sits home and refuses to vote for McCain does not need to lecture the rest of us on anything. McCain will be more conservative on issues like defense, drilling, judges and immigration than Obama will. So if you sit home and pout then that just proves you don't really care about these issues. Cry baby sore losers need to realize they blew it and did not come up with an alternative, so now they can let the liberal Democrat win or they can vote for McCain. If they sit home, I will never again care what they think. Why should I? Where were they when we needed them? crying in their beer is where.

And btw the men McCain has vetting judges are Ted Olson and Fred Thompson. And baggi, the next president might pick 3 judges and the last court brought us the Boumediene decision. Maybe you don' think that was disastrous, but I beg to differ.

It really doesn't matter who McCain nominates. What matters is how any judge can be confirmed through a Democrat-controlled Senate. Yes, there may be enough pressure on them to confirm even a Roberts or Alito, assumimg there are any so obviously qualified, but Democrats have a way of not responding to anything except their nutroots base and, so long as their are no severe consequences, they will continue to do so. Republicans MUST take back the Senate this year.

The only consolation is that if McCain loses and Democrats control the Senate, thanks to McCain, the judicial filibuster remains. Anybody want to bet that Democrats move to change the rules?

snochar:

Given the ages of the justices the Democrats might well not have a choice but to confirm.

Rightwingprof:

"...What does campaign finance reform..., brown hoards,...global warming... have to do with judges? Nothing...."

To use some more of your own words - "The utter lack of logic in this comment is amazing." Where do you think any legistlation will end up. Do you really think McCain will not have learned anything from his the campaign finance reform debacle.

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