Scalia and Kennedy won’t retire with a blatant socialist in office. There is every reason to believe that Joe Biden, who will be 74 in 2016, intends to run for the presidency at that time.
Ronald Reagan ran his final campaign as a 74/5 year old.
JP Stevens served on the court until he was 90 years old, a republican appointee who waited to retire until an ultra-liberal came on the scene.
No one expects Ginsberg to retire on a conservative president anyway, but she won’t have to.
Both Romney and Obama are liberals.
So, Romney’s record of appointing liberals to the judiciary in massachusetts means we should worry about getting another John Paul Stevens by another liberal Republican.
Justices, like other old people, have a habit of dying when you least want them to.
It’s your choice; Obama or Rmney.... and that’s your only real choice.
Excellent post, xzins.