Well we had two real horrible candidates to pick from that year.
John McCain was temperamentally unsuited to be President and probably would have given Jimmy Carter a run for his money for title of worst President of the last 150 years, but his Supreme Court justice nominations probably wouldn’t have been as bad as Obama’s. Of course he might not have had any—Souter and Stevens might have delayed retiring until the next election.
“Well we had two real horrible candidates to pick from that year.”