If the next Congress is truly a veto-proof majority of socialists in the U.S. Senate with McCain as the next POTUS, then ALL of McCain’s conservative judicial choices will just be rejected by the next U.S. Senate. Also, all pro-WOT issues by a President McCain will just be rejected by a truly socialistic majority in the next Congress. Conservatives presently must truly put ALL of their efforts into truly making the next Congress and every political office below Congress as conservative as they possibly can make them for both U.S. short-term needs and U.S. long-term needs!
I agree that any non-leftists judges appointed by McCain — should he ever do it, which is not a sure thing — would perhaps not even get confirmation hearings. But consider this: Stevens who is as old as dirt might become unable to continue on the bench, and the Bolsheviks won’t confirm a McCain nominated replacement. so, the SCOTUS is 4-4 between the constitutionalists and the communists. What then? And what if Ruth Baader Meinhof Ginsberg joins Stevens in his infirmity? A 4-3 court? Are their decisions as binding as 5-4 votes?