Our problem hasn't been the Justices we can't get through, but the ones we did. How about the following list -- match the bad nomination to the President: Blackmun, O'Connor, Souter, Warren, Stevens. Hint: None were nominated by 'Rats. All were disasters. The worst of the lot IMHO is Sandra Dee O'Connor, who now thinks we should cite European Courts in SCOTUS decisions. She has a way to go to rise to the level of mediocrity.
We need ruthless nominations like FDR's first - Senator Black, a liberal New Deal Deep South Big Government activist; a guy the Southern Senators hated but had to confirm. Too bad he turned out to be a Klansman, but he got FDR's view of the Federal Government approved. We need equally powerful nominees on our side.
His position on the Second Amendment disqualifies him for me. He believes it is a collective not individual right and only applies to the "state militia", which he sees as the equivalent of the "National Guard".
I can't understand his view, which is completely inconsistent with much of his constitutional thought, other than that he just must be a real anti-gunner.
In certain areas of the South and the Midwest (esp. Indiana) at that time, you had to join the Klan to get anywhere in politics.