The old Sununu was and still is-an a—hole. We need more of that.
Souter was sold as “conservative” to a credulous Sununu by Senator Warren Rudman who might has well have been a Democrat. He passed himself off as conservative until he got on the Court when he actually got to the left of Breyer and Ginsburg. Souter waited to retire until Obama got elected so they could get a fellow leftwinger, Sonia Sotomayor, on the Court. Rudman was very happy that Souter didn’t, as expected, overturn liberal precedents. In this regard, he was like John Paul Stevens, sold by the simpleton Gerry Ford as a conservative over the objections of real conservatives who knew exactly what he was and would turn out to be.