Good point.
But I know that asking for logical consistency in politics is a fools errand.
Foolish me, I keep hoping for it . . .
Exactly! On another forum, the rabid liberals were demanding that Sandra Day O'Connor be replaced with someone like-minded, not someone more conservative. So I asked them, if a conservative like Thomas retired, and a liberal were President, would they demand the same and equal appointment, a conservative, as they were demanding of Bush? The reply: crickets.
The whole, 'if so-and-so were______' argument is elementary.