[Republican Wildcat]

Perhaps...although those two Supreme Court seats that Obama got to pick were pretty significant bad things that can’t be corrected. I doubt McCain would have appointed Scalia types, but even if they were in the O’Connor or Kennedy molds that would have significantly shifted the Court to the right given the justices that were replaced.

[Suz in AZ]

I don’t know. I’m not convinced his picks would be much better. And then there would be Congress, merrily doing their thing, while the country is asleep. So then, which is the least of the two evils?

[Will88]

Perhaps...although those two Supreme Court seats that Obama got to pick

It's very unlikely those two particular justices would have retired if McCain had won. We saw how Souter, the stealth appointment of GHWB, waited out eight years of W to retire during the first half-year of Obama's administration.

[Luke21]

“Perhaps...although those two Supreme Court seats that Obama got to pick were pretty significant bad things that can’t be corrected. I doubt McCain would have appointed Scalia types, but even if they were in the O’Connor or Kennedy molds that would have significantly shifted the Court to the right given the justices that were replaced.”

Not hardly. Bush One and Ford gave us Souter and Stevens, absolute leftist plagues. Old Juan never misses a chance to kick our tails and he'd have given us two winners.