“But a loss is still a loss. For us, for the Supreme Court and for the next 30+ years of the tenure of those Justices (appointed by HillObama).”
Why would think Hillobama’s appointments would be worse than McCain’s?
Any good appointments will not get past the Democrat Senate and it will be a Democrat Senate. Unfortunately, a Republican president will feel it necessary to fill seats when it would be better to leave vacated seats empty rather than put 3rd choice Souters in just to fill the seats. There is no Constitutional requirement for any particular number of USSC justices. There could be 2 or there could be 1000. 9 is not a magic number.
IMO, that’s just being silly, and I say that even though I’m seething at McCain right now.
McCain would appoint O’Connors, Kennedys and Souters. (Which is not good.)
HillObama would appoint Brennans, Marshalls, Douglases and younger versions of Ginsburg. (Which would be catastrophic.)