John McCain seems to enjoy saying things that set my conservative teeth on edge. As they suggest, these things demoralize. That which demoralizes also causes hesitation, procrastination, reconsideration.
That’s exactly what John McCain doesn’t want, but he seems hell-bent on getting it.
I think he wants to prove he can win without the conservatives by forming a coalition of lib/mod republicans + mod Democrats + mod independents.
He doesn’t want to be beholden to conservatives in any way shape or form. In terms of judgeships, that is scarey. John McCain will appoint what his experience in the Senate says will get through without much difficulty; i.e., “moderates.”
True, but even two more Souters would be trading up from Stevens and Ginsburg. I don't think he'd stick us with another Ginsburg.
That is probably the best we can realistically expect - a far left Justice will retire and McCain will pick a "moderate" Justice who may not be quite as bad as the far leftist Justice he replaced. The best we can hope for with McCain is that things stay more or less the same.
On the other hand, Obama is not going to agonize over whether a potential Justice is "moderate" enough. Oh, no. Obama will pick the most radical, anti-American judges he can find. There was recently a story about a leftist judge somewhere who keeps portraits of Marx and Che Guevara in his office. Even McCain, in all his "work across the isle" fury, would not nominate such a person but Obama surely would. Make no mistake about it, Obama's idea of "balance" on the Supreme Court would be to nominate Stalinists and Maoists.
There has been much talk about what a McCain win would do to the Republican Party. I have not heard much talk about what it would do to the moonbat wing of the Democrat Party if Obama loses by a landslide. The way the Democrat Party is structured, it favors the far left. I don't expect the Democrats to learn much or reform themselves, but if Obana suffered a stunning loss it might disrupt the strategy of the moonbat extremists.
Barry and Hillary have convinced me many times I need to support McCain. Then McCain convinces me otherwise.