I totally get what you’re saying about Supreme Court Justices. The problem is many of them have turned out to be major disappointments and outright fools and frauds - even when appointed by Republicans. Possibly this is because they become part of the party circuit in Washington DC and another part may be because some of them do not have paper trails because they’re nonentities. The paper trail did in Bork who would probably have been our greatest Justice if allowed to serve. So, in my opinion, we should go for the best candidate and cross our fingers when it comes to appointing the Supremes.
Since the homosexual marriage decision I am starting to turn into a one issue voter.
A majority of the current Supreme Court has decreed that the actual text of the Constitution, the intent of the drafters, 2,000 years of western civilization, logic, common sense, and all known rules of statutory construction are all utterly irrelevant. The Constitution now says whatever the hell 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices want it to say.
Our only hope is to elect a truly CONSERVATIVE President that will only appoint truly CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court Justices. Unfortunately, even Reagan batted no better than 50% when picking Supreme Court Justices. Democrat Presidents on the other hand always pick reliably far left-wing Justices.
I must admit that in retrospect I have slightly mixed feelings about the outcome Bork nomination.
On the one hand, Robert Bork would have been a fantastic strict constructionist Justice. Instead of Bork, we got Anthony Kennedy, a moderate flip flopper who is single handedly responsible for most of the 5/4 liberal wins over the past 25+ years.
On the other hand, Bork died in 2012. If he had been on the Court, then Obama would have filled his seat with a young far left-wing Justice, just like Sotomayor and Kagan, who would be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years. At least with Kennedy still on the Court we have a chance that his seat will be filled with a conservative by the next President.