It really is Reagan, Bush I and Ford’s fault!!!! Thank them for the brilliant picks that they chose. (Don’t give me the crap that they were tricked...please!!!) Really can’t believe that Republicans are the cause of the Supreme Court!!!! That is stunning. Quite frankingly since huge majority were picked by Republican Presidents can’t complain too much. I am thankful that the liberals don’t use that fact against us.
It’s true, Stevens, Kennedy, and Souter were all terrible appointments for any Republican president to make. In all 3 cases we had a R. president unwilling to face down the ‘Rats in Congress and fight for a conservative nominee. None of those 3 appointments is excusable. Of course, Ford and Bush Sr. tended toward the RINO anyway, but they should have displayed some basic respect for their indispensable political allies (why did both Ford and Bush, Sr. lose their re-election campaigns???) with a more competent SCOTUS nomination. Reagan found himself pushed toward Kennedy by the fiascos with Bork and Ginsburg. Reagan’s really big mistake was failing to fight hard for Bork — I had great admiration of course for President Ronald Reagan, but in that case he was wrong — after Ted Kennedy’s depraved smear campaign began against Robert Bork, we needed President Reagan to go on the attack and shatter the growing ‘Rat-RINO conspiracy against Bork. I don’t know whether or not Bork could have been confirmed, but Reagan never should have acquiesced with that vicious ‘Rat onslaught that changed the tenor of judicial appointments forever.
All 4 judges who voted against this decision were appointed by Republican Presidents. Many appointees are stealth liberals, who have not revealed their bad tendencies. Conversely, anyone who clearly reveals conservative, originalist tendencies will be Borked by the libs. That’s why Reagan, faced with a Demonrat Senate, appointed Kennedy after the Bork debacle.