Judges are a hugely overrated reason to vote for McCain:
1. The most likely retirees are liberal, and there is no way Leahy, Kennedy, etc., would allow a conservative McCain nominee to replace a liberal. And, Obama would make no difference in the court replacing a liberal.
2. Kennedy and Leahy will not allow committee approval of any true conservative. McCain would have to sit down with Ted and Pat and agree upon someone in advance. And, we all know how great McCain is at reaching across the aisle. And they won’t agree on the conservative opposite of Ginsburg and Breyer. They won’t roll over on SCOTUS nominees as the Republicans did during the Clinton years.
3. Who believes McCain when he says he’d appoint conservatives in the first place?
Why don't you tell us, then, who you will vote for, why you will vote for them, and who you suspect will win in November?
So that pretty much means we can forget about a Chief Justice Roberts or a Justice Alito as long as Leahy and Kennedy are around? Oh wait. Leahy and Kennedy were around and we do have Justices Roberts and Alito.
Kennedy and Leahy will not allow committee approval of any true conservative.
Ibid. Op cit.
Bingo, the idea that a vote for McCain will result in a Scalia, Roberts or Alito is laughable.
Ain’t going to happen. Besides, Juan isn’t done praising Obama yet. Why think of stuff like this?
That's an assumption. Kennedy and Scalia are also in their 70's. Considering the number of politicians re-elected, if Obama wins two terms, they will be pushing 80 if they are still on the court in 2016. Also, Obama will replace the leftists with clones 20-30 years younger. If we get a buffer, when a leftist is elected, we might not lose the entire court for 40 years like we did with the Warren and Burger courts.
2. Kennedy and Leahy will not allow committee approval of any true conservative. McCain would have to sit down with Ted and Pat and agree upon someone in advance. And, we all know how great McCain is at reaching across the aisle. And they won’t agree on the conservative opposite of Ginsburg and Breyer. They won’t roll over on SCOTUS nominees as the Republicans did during the Clinton years.
Those same senators will let a clown like Erwin Chermerensky sail through. I'll take a Kennedy clone over Cermerensky, Stephen Reinhardt, or another Breyer.
3. Who believes McCain when he says he’d appoint conservatives in the first place?
I'll take a MIGHT appoint a conservative and voted for conservatives over someone who VOTED AGAINST conservatives like Roberts and Alito.