Not at all convincing.
First, if McCain should win and keep his word and nominate justices in the mold of Roberts and Alito, who thinks that Pat Leahy and Teddy Kennedy will allow them out of the judiciary committee?
And if Stevens or Ginsburg left the bench, there is NO WAY IN HELL that the Dem. Senate will allow any nominee that would result in a conservative majority.
And, as has been said, he’d probably “reach across the aisle” to Leahy and his great friend Teddy Kennedy and agree upon some nominee (as Republicans did for Ginsburg) that would infuriate the conservative base.
And if a Dem. becomes president, the Republican senators should fight any far left nominee, and use the filibuster (as the Dems. have many times) to defeat them.
People are greatly exaggerating the the advantage of having McCain in the WH re: SCOTUS. No further move to a more conservative court until Republicans regain the Senate. It’s mostly defense until that happens.
Well said. Fear is a very bad place from which to elect a mentally shaky guy president.