SoutOr was such a complete MISS by H.W.Bush I suspect even Obama couldn't pick someone more to the extreme left.. Kennedy ws a crap shoot after the Borking"
Kennedy was known as a squishy; Reagan essentially gave up after Bork and Ginsburg and went with someone he knew he could get through.
Souter, on the other hand, was promised to Bush as a conservative. RINO Sen. Rudman, knowing all the long that Souter was a liberal, gleefully snookered John Sunnunu into thinking he was a conservative.