Souter? Anyone want to defend Souter?
How about Sandra Day O'Connor? Who wants to defend her pushing abortion? Anyone?
How about Roberts? Anyone want to defend Roberts re-writing Obamacare and forcing it down the American people's throats? Anyone? Anyone?
How about Kennedy, the so-called "swing vote" and moral conscience of America? Besides getting the gay wedding cake case correct what did he do as a consensus candidate that didn't screw conservatives while he was on the court?
All the above were REPUBLICAN CONSENSUS CANDIDATES. NO MORE!
The USSC needs a STRICT CONSTRUCTIONIST in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. Nothing else is acceptable.
Democrats can go all out, and pick Justices like Ginsburg and Sotamayor.
Republicans are expected to choose “consensus” candidates.
Consensus candidates are acceptable to The Swamp. That is no recommendation to the rest of us.
But the Swamp doesn't want one (as McConnell has made clear), Collins and Murkowski will oppose them, and McCain has made it all one vote harder.