McCain criticizes Obama for vote against chief justice (John Roberts)

AP ^ | 5-6-08 | Libby Quaid

[Darren McCarty]

THIS is why I'm voting for John McCain this fall. This issue is the most important issue in my 30some odd years in this country, including the Cold War, Iraq, Islam, the economy, and everything else. We are one judge away from having a strict constitutionalist majority, and two away from having a safe one. These are lifttime appointments. The 80 years of damage from Lochner and its backlash to the Commerce Clause to the Warren and Burger Courts, to Roe v Wade/Doe v Bolton to the latest EPA decision is starting to recede in some areas. This is how it can be fixed.

The bottom line is this. McCain may appoint good judges. It is a leap of faith to some degree, but he did vote for Roberts, Alito, and Thomas. Obama did not. Clinton did not.

Current ages of SCOTUS justices

Roberts - 53
Stevens - 88
Scalia - 72
Kennedy - 71
Souter - 68
Thomas - 59
Breyer - 69
Alito - 58

[brooklyn dave]

You mean Obama actually showed up for a senate vote?

[Grunthor]

“McCain criticizes Obama”

That alone is headline worthy.

[mgc1122]

Nice to see Johnny Mac get into the game ... and stop playing around like the campaign was a genteel Senate debate.

[stravinskyrules]

Is Ginsburg ageless? God forbid.

in any case, McCain is not to be believed. We can hope for a Souter at best from Juan.

[HIDEK6]

You mean Obama actually showed up for a senate vote?

It was on the same day as his squash match with Kerry.

[AnAmericanMother]

I agree with you.

McCain makes me nervous, he's an unknown quantity in many ways and I'm not sure where he'll jump on S.Ct. justices (and of course all the OTHER federal judiciary appointments).

But we KNOW where Obama or Hillary would go, and with Stevens almost 90 and Ginsberg only 75 but ill and obviously not enjoying the job, that's at least two spots that will probably come vacant soon.

[jtal]

Ginsberg 75

[Grunthor]

“John McCain will attend the NCLR annual Convention in San Diego, July 14”

McCain/Feingold

McCain/Kennedy

McCain/Liebermann

Gang of 14

The lettuce comment.

Not just voting against the tax cuts, but using leftist lingo while doing so ie; “Tax cuts for the wealthy.”

This is why I’m not voting for Juan McCain.

[Nonstatist]

I can’t believe Souter is only 68. That fey old woman is gonna be with us a long time, I fear.

[Faith]

In considering the unborn, the only one who stands a chance of defending them is McCain. He gets my vote. I would rather have had a conservative to vote for, but I surely cannot stay home and most certainly will NEVER vote for Hillary or Obama.

[MBB1984]

Agree. It is very difficult to believe the orchestrator of the “Gang of Fourteen” would appoint conservatives. The Alito “wears conservatism on his sleeve” comment also makes me question him. The fact that Warren Rudman, who worked to give us Souter, is a close adviser, also speaks volumes on McCain's potential appointments.

[SoConPubbie]

So when is McCain going to apologize for voting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

[Robbin]

I’ve gone over to the darkside. If Obama is the Dem, I’m going to vote R, even thou it is McCain. I said I would never do that, but Rev Wright convinced me that McCain really is the lesser of two evils...

[BibChr]

McCain promised to appoint judges who, in the mold of Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, are likely to limit the reach of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion

That may or may not be true, but I will BET without even looking that McCain SAID nothing of the sort.

This is typical AP editorializing disguised as reporting.

[SoConPubbie]

In considering the unborn, the only one who stands a chance of defending them is McCain. He gets my vote. I would rather have had a conservative to vote for, but I surely cannot stay home and most certainly will NEVER vote for Hillary or Obama.

To bad McCain believes that a little bit of infantacide (Murder of Unborn Children for those of you in Rio Linda) is a good thing.

He wholeheartedly supports Embryonic Stem-Cell Research.

Oh, and one more thing, too bad he refuses to support the Human Life Amendment to the Constitution!

And while were at it, too bad he voted for Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court. An avid Abortionist, if there ever was one.

So much for his Pro-Life Credentials.

[TNCMAXQ]

Is there an email where we can write this “reporter” and tell her conservatives are not “far rightists?” I wonder how often she uses the term far left, though both Democrat candidates can be described as being from that group.

[Ol' Sparky]

You left out the age of Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg, She is 75.

The real question is, can McCain be trusted to keep his promise on this issue?

[Williams]

Just heard the Glenn Beck show and how Ayers, Wright, Dorn, Obama and radical Islamists were intimately connected, that Obama was swimming in those waters for years. Don’t even consider letting Obama get elected.

[AuntB]

“You mean Obama actually showed up for a senate vote?”

You mean McCain actually showed up for a senate vote?

He’s been campaigning in NH for the last 9 years.