[El Gato]

while a McCain Court could create a solid conservative majority.

Maybe, but "moderate swing justices" , Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy" were both appointed by none other than Ronald Reagan. Do we really know or can expect McCain to be more conservative in judicial appointments than Reagan?

[nyc1]

“Maybe, but “moderate swing justices” , Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy” were both appointed by none other than Ronald Reagan. Do we really know or can expect McCain to be more conservative in judicial appointments than Reagan?”

O’Connor was a bad pick, but I believe Kennedy was a solid conservative at the time. Unfortunately, Flipper “grew” once on the Court.

You don’t always know what you’re getting, unfortunately. Eisenhower put Warren on the Court (which he said turned out to be his biggest mistake), Kennedy appointed White (who turned out pretty conservative, except on civil rights), and FDR appointed Frankfurter (whose name still irritates liberal law professors).

[Clintonfatigued]

Ronald Reagan also gave up Antonin Scalia, and George W. Bush, for all his mistakes, gave us Clarence Thomas. There is no way a Democrat President would appoint such excellent justices.

McCain has praised those justices in his speeches, which is a good sign.

[Mad_as_heck]

Do we really know or can expect McCain to be more conservative in judicial appointments than Reagan?

It will be a battle to get first class justices out of McCain but at least there will be a chance. Conservatives did stop GW's attempted supreme court missteps. Any Obama justice will be a nightmare.