[TAdams8591]

"This is why nominating someone with a public record is preferable to nominating an admitted blank slate, stealth candidate."

Exactly.

Liberals openly nominate their candidates. We should do the same. Otherwise, we set a horrible precedent and punish those Conservatives who openly made tough decisions issuing rulings based on original intent, or standing up for conservative principles.

[ThePythonicCow]

Liberals openly nominate their candidates. We should do the same.

Yes, we should. But there are several, sometimes conflicting, criteria to choosing a Supreme Court nominee. This criteria is not the only one.

The number one criteria in my book is that their voting record, once on the Court, much more closely matches that of Scalia and Thomas than it does that of Ginsberg or Stevens.

I will compromise on everything else, if I get that. If I don't get that, then nothing else will be an adequate substitute.